Open AccessMinority Participation in Health Research—Facts and Fiction
Author(s) -
Wendler, D,
Kington, R,
Madans, J,
Van Wye, G,
Christ-Schmidt, H
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
plos medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.847
H-Index - 228
eISSN - 1549-1676
pISSN - 1549-1277
DOI - 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030040
Subject(s) - medicine , medline , environmental health , political science , law
It is widely believed that racial and ethnic minority groups, especially in the US, are less willing to participate in health research than non-minority groups. According to this view, minority groups’comparative unwillingness to participate is due to a lack of trust in health research and health researchers, which traces to past abuses, particularly the Tuskegee Syphilis Study