Mexican Immigrants’ Explanatory Model of Latent Tuberculosis Infection

Journal of Transcultural Nursing

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 347-355

  McEwen, Marylyn M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

critical ethnography; explanatory models; latent tuberculosis infection; Mexican immigrants; U.S. Mexico border health

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONFLICT; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEAR; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECUMBENCY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SPOUSE; TRUST; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED STATES; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ARIZONA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); DECEPTION; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NARRATION; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPOUSES; STEREOTYPING; TRUST; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 26444448023     PISSN: 10436596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1043659605278943     Document Type: Article

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