Health culture and the clinical encounter: Vietnamese refugees' responses to preventive drug treatment of inactive tuberculosis

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 338-364

  Ito, Karen L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical encounter; Compliance issues; Health culture; Tuberculosis; Vietnamese refugees

Indexed keywords

ISONIAZID; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL FACTOR; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REFUGEE; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; VIET NAM;

ADULT; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; ASIAN AMERICANS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; ISONIAZID; MALE; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; REFUGEES; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; VIETNAM;

EID: 0033194567     PISSN: 07455194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/maq.1999.13.3.338     Document Type: Article

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