Sources of health information among Vietnamese American men

Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 263-271

  Woodall, Erica D ^a   Taylor, Victoria M ^a,b   Yasui, Yutaka ^c   Ngo Metzger, Quyen ^d   Burke, Nancy ^e   Thai, Hue ^f   Jackson, J Carey ^b,f  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Asian Americans; Health education; Sources of health information; Vietnamese Americans

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MASS MEDIUM; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED STATES; VIET NAM;

EID: 33745342001     PISSN: 15571912     EISSN: 15571920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10903-006-9331-0     Document Type: Article

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