Unconscious biases: Racial microaggressions in American Indian health care

Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 231-239

  Walls, Melissa L ^a   Gonzalez, John ^b   Gladney, Tanya ^c   Onello, Emily ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BEMIDJI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross Cultural care; Patient Centered care; Populations; Underserved

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGGRESSION; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MICROAGGRESSION; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; SELF REPORT; STEREOTYPY; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT CARE; PREVALENCE; PROCEDURES; TRENDS; UNITED STATES;

CHRONIC DISEASE; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; PREVALENCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84928984340     PISSN: 15572625     EISSN: 15587118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.2015.02.140194     Document Type: Article

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