Racial discrimination’s influence on smoking rates among American Indian Alaska Native two-spirit individuals: Does pain play a role?

Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1667-1678

  Johnson Jennings, Michelle D ^a   Belcourt, Annie ^b   Town, Matthew ^c   Walls, Melissa L ^d   Walters, Karina L ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^c PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

American Indians; Indigenist stress coping; Intersectionality; Lesbian gay bisexual transgender (LGBT) health care disparities; Pain; Racial discrimination; Tobacco cigarette smoking; Two Spirits

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALASKA; AMERICAN INDIAN; COMPLICATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PAIN; PSYCHOLOGY; RACISM; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; ALASKA; FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MALE; PAIN; RACISM; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84911405647     PISSN: 10492089     EISSN: 15486869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/hpu.2014.0193     Document Type: Article

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