Health status and access to health care of documented and undocumented immigrant Latino women

Health Care for Women International

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 916-936

  Marshall, Khiya J ^a   Urrutia Rojas, Ximena ^a   Mas, Francisco Soto ^a   Coggin, Claudia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; COMMUNITY CARE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH STATUS; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; PRIMARY PREVENTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PRIMARY PREVENTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TEXAS; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 31544433413     PISSN: 07399332     EISSN: 10964665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07399330500301846     Document Type: Article

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