Perceived Discrimination in Health Care and Use of Preventive Health Services
Journal of General Internal MedicinePublished 22 July 2008Open access
Leslie R. M. Hausmann, Kwonho Jeong, James E. Bost, Said A. Ibrahim
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Perceived racial discrimination in health care does not independently predict preventive health care utilization and neither negative nor positive discrimination was predictive of utilization.
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Perceived racial discrimination in health care does not independently predict preventive health care utilization.
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