Self-reported experience of racial discrimination and health care use in New Zealand: Results from the 2006/07 New Zealand Health Survey

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1012-1019

  Harris, Ricci ^a   Cormack, Donna ^a   Tobias, Martin ^b   Yeh, Li Chia ^b   Talamaivao, Natalie ^b   Minster, Joanna ^b   Timutimu, Roimata ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BREAST TUMOR; CAUCASIAN; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PREJUDICE; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84861935513     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2011.300626     Document Type: Article

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