Cultural aspects of adjustment to coronary heart disease in Chinese-Australians: A review of the literature

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 391-399

  Daly, John ^a   Davidson, Patricia ^a   Chang, Esther ^a   Hancock, Karen ^b   Rees, David ^d   Thompson, David R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Department of Cardiology ^*  (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^d University of York ^*

Author keywords

Adjustment; Chinese Australians; Coronary heart disease; Cross cultural; Nursing

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; CHINA; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; NURSING RESEARCH; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; CHINA; CORONARY DISEASE; CULTURE; HUMANS; NURSING RESEARCH;

EID: 0036690052     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2648.2002.02301.x     Document Type: Article

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