Perceptions of and barriers to use of generic medications in a rural African American population, Alabama, 2011

Preventing Chronic Disease

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Sewell, Keri ^a   Andreae, Susan ^a   Luke, Elizabeth ^a   Safford, Monika M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENERIC DRUG;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSURANCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PERCEPTION; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; THERAPEUTIC EQUIVALENCE; TRUST; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; ALABAMA; CHRONIC DISEASE; DRUGS, GENERIC; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INSURANCE COVERAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POVERTY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; THERAPEUTIC EQUIVALENCY; TRUST;

EID: 84869063800     PISSN: 15451151     EISSN: 21665435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5888/pcd9.120010     Document Type: Article

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