Health, behavior, and health care disparities: Disentangling the effects of income and race in the United States

International Journal of Health Services

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 607-625

  Dubay, Lisa C ^a   Lebrun, Lydie A ^b  

^a URBAN INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL; ATTITUDINAL SURVEY; ETHNICITY; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; RACIAL DISPARITY; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECONOMICS; ETHNOLOGY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; INCOME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RACE; SMOKING; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INCOME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; SMOKING; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870265792     PISSN: 00207314     EISSN: 15414469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/HS.42.4.c     Document Type: Article

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