African Continental Ancestry Group - Psychology
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Understanding why some ethnic minority patients evaluate medical care more negatively than white patients: a cross sectional analysis of a routine patient survey in English general practices.

14 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: To examine why patients from ethnic minorities give poorer evaluations of primary health care than white patients. DESIGN: Cross sectional analysis of patient surveys collected in general practice. SETTING: 1098 English general practices ... Read more...

Low-status compensation: A theory for understanding the role of status in cultures of honor.

30 Aug 2009 The mechanisms that link herding regions to cultures of honor have never been empirically tested. The objective of the present article is to show the important role that issues of status play in linking herding regions to cultures of honor using the ... Read more...

Optimism, cynical hostility, and incident coronary heart disease and mortality in the Women's Health Initiative.

8 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: Trait optimism (positive future expectations) and cynical, hostile attitudes toward others have not been studied together in relation to incident coronary heart disease (CHD) and mortality in postmenopausal women. METHODS AND RESULTS: ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'African Continental Ancestry Group - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Understanding why some ethnic minority patients evaluate medical care more negatively than white patients: a cross sectional analysis of a routine patient survey in English general practices. 14 Sep 2009
• Low-status compensation: A theory for understanding the role of status in cultures of honor. 30 Aug 2009
• Optimism, cynical hostility, and incident coronary heart disease and mortality in the Women's Health Initiative. 8 Aug 2009
• Autonomic functioning moderates the relations between contextual factors and externalizing behaviors among inner-city children. 30 Jul 2009
• Following in the wake of anger: when not discriminating is discriminating. 19 Jul 2009
• Prenatal airborne polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon exposure and child IQ at age 5 years. 18 Jul 2009
• Religious beliefs and delay in breast cancer diagnosis for self-detected breast changes in African-American women. 29 Jun 2009
• The mediating effect of global self-worth on physical activity in African-American adolescent females. 29 Jun 2009
• Is love colorblind? Political orientation and interracial romantic desire. 29 Jun 2009
• Ethnic origins of patients attending specialist eating disorders services in a multiethnic urban catchment area in the United Kingdom. 29 Jun 2009
• Prevalence of depression among older Americans: the Aging, Demographics and Memory Study. 10 Jun 2009
• Comparing staff and client perceptions of needs in a British single-sex medium secure unit. 30 May 2009
• Searching for differences in race: is there evidence for preferential detection of other-race faces? 30 May 2009
• Predicting interest in cosmetic surgery: interactive effects of appearance-based rejection sensitivity and negative appearance comments. 3 May 2009
• The absence of underprediction does not imply the absence of measurement bias. 29 Apr 2009
• Addressing social determinants of health to improve access to early breast cancer detection: results of the Boston REACH 2010 Breast and Cervical Cancer Coalition Women's Health Demonstration Project. 29 Apr 2009
• Methamphetamine use patterns among urban Black men who have sex with men. 29 Apr 2009
• Mental health service use among South Africans for mood, anxiety and substance use disorders. 29 Apr 2009
• Perceived discrimination and mental health disorders: the South African Stress and Health study. 29 Apr 2009
• Strong claims and weak evidence: reassessing the predictive validity of the IAT. 29 Apr 2009

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Technical information about 'African Continental Ancestry Group'

Definition: Individuals whose ancestral origins are in the continent of Africa.

Descriptor UI: D044383

Alternative terms: African Continental Ancestry Group; Blacks; Negroes; Negro; Negroid Race; Negroid Races; Race, Negroid; Races, Negroid;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; education; history; legislation & jurisprudence; psychology; statistics & numerical data; ethnology; genetics;

Tree Number: M01.686.508.100;

History Note: 2004

Technical Notes: specify geog if pertinent