Healthcare Providers’ Formative Experiences with Race and Black Male Patients in Urban Hospital Environments

Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 1120-1127

  Plaisime, Marie V ^a   Malebranche, David J ^b   Davis, Andrea L ^c   Taylor, Jennifer A ^c  

^a HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Ethics Department   (United States)

^c DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Access to care; African Americans Black; Bias; Health professionals; Health service delivery; Race ethnicity; Racial health disparities; Racism

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVENIENCE SAMPLE; ETHNICITY; FEAR; GROUNDED THEORY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; RACISM; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; CAUCASIAN; COGNITION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOSPITAL; MEDICAL STAFF; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COGNITIVE DISSONANCE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEAR; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RACISM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85013652157     PISSN: 21973792     EISSN: 21968837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40615-016-0317-x     Document Type: Article

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