Predictors of indigenous healer use among Samoans

Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 64-69

  Mishra, Shiraz I ^a   Hess, Jim ^b   Luce, Pat H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c National Office of Samoan Affairs   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATIENT CARE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; SAMOAN ISLANDS; SOCIAL ASPECT; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HAWAII; HEALTH SERVICES, INDIGENOUS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LOS ANGELES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SAMOA; SAMPLING STUDIES; SHAMANISM; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0242330300     PISSN: 10786791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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