Technology Versus Responsibility: Immigrant Physicians from the Former Soviet Union Reflect on Israeli Health Care

Journal of Health and Social Behavior

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 191-202

  Remennick, Larissa I ^a,b   Shtarkshall, Ronny A ^c  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; ISRAEL; MALE; MANPOWER; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; PHYSICIAN; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TECHNOLOGY; USSR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; ISRAEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIANS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STATE MEDICINE; TECHNOLOGY; USSR;

EID: 0031229401     PISSN: 00221465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2955366     Document Type: Article

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