Providing health care to Latino immigrants: Community-based efforts in the rural Midwest

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 94, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1709-1711

  Casey, Michelle M ^a,b   Blewett, Lynn A ^a   Call, Kathleen T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; CULTURAL FACTOR; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH INSURANCE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; LINGUISTICS; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; RELIGION; RURAL AREA; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE; SOCIAL WORK;

EID: 3042834822     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.94.10.1709     Document Type: Article

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