The social gradient in doctor-patient communication

International Journal for Equity in Health

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Verlinde, Evelyn ^a   De Laender, Nele ^a   De Maesschalck, Stéphanie ^a   Deveugele, Myriam ^a   Willems, Sara ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Communication; Physician patient relations; Social class

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; EQUITY; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH WORKER; PERCEPTION; RECIPROCITY; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMOTIONALITY; HUMAN; INCOME; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL STATUS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; HEALTH DISPARITY; PATIENT CARE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ACCULTURATION; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; COMMUNICATION; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84857938527     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14759276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-9276-11-12     Document Type: Review

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