Exposing Racial Discrimination: Implicit & Explicit Measures-The My Body, My Story Study of 1005 US-Born Black & White Community Health Center Members

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Krieger, Nancy ^a   Waterman, Pamela D ^a   Kosheleva, Anna ^a   Chen, Jarvis T ^a   Carney, Dana R ^b   Smith, Kevin W ^c   Bennett, Gary G ^d   Williams, David R ^a,e   Freeman, Elmer ^f   Russell, Beverley ^g   Thornhill, Gisele ^g   Mikolowsky, Kristin ^h   Rifkin, Rachel ⁱ   Samuel, Latrice ^j  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g Abt Associates ^*

^h ABT ASSOCIATES   (United States)

ⁱ BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^j CHANNING LABORATORY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; IMPLICIT ASSOCIATION TEST; INCOME; MALE; MY BODY MY STORY STUDY; RACE DIFFERENCE; RACISM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; TYPES OF STUDY; UNITED STATES; AFRICAN AMERICAN; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMPLOYMENT; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; BOSTON; COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREJUDICE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SMOKING; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84859229752     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027636     Document Type: Article

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