High Stakes for the Health of Sexual and Gender Minority Patients of Color

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2017, Pages 1390-1395

  Tan, Judy Y ^a   Baig, Arshiya A ^b   Chin, Marshall H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATIENT; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT CARE; SELF EXAMINATION; SEXUAL AND GENDER MINORITY PATIENT OF COLOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; VULNERABLE POPULATION; ETHNIC GROUP; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH STATUS; PREJUDICE; SEXUAL AND GENDER MINORITY; STANDARDS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; ETHNIC GROUPS; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PREJUDICE; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; SEXUAL AND GENDER MINORITIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85027195637     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-017-4138-3     Document Type: Article

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