Exploring health plan perspectives in collecting and using data on race, ethnicity, and language

American Journal of Managed Care

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Gazmararian, Julie ^a   Carreón, Rita ^b   Olson, Nicole ^a   Lardy, Barbara ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b America's Health Insurance Plans   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ETHNICITY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE PRACTICE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; LANGUAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

CONFIDENTIALITY; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DATA COLLECTION; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MANAGED CARE PROGRAMS; MINORITY GROUPS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84865315479     PISSN: 10880224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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