Strategies for reaching Asian Americans with health information

American Journal of Preventive Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 224-228

  Sadler, Georgia Robins ^a,b   Nguyen, France ^b   Doan, Quyen ^b   Au, Hong ^b   Thomas, Anne Goldzier ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; PATIENT EDUCATION;

ASIAN AMERICANS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUDIOVISUAL AIDS; CALIFORNIA; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; INFORMATION SERVICES; NEOPLASMS; TEACHING; TRANSLATING;

EID: 0031947179     PISSN: 07493797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0749-3797(97)00067-6     Document Type: Article

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