"You need to know where we're coming from": Canadian aboriginal women's perspectives on culturally appropriate HIV counseling and testing

Health Care for Women International

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 723-747

  Bucharski, Dawn ^a   Reutter, Linda I ^a   Ogilvie, Linda D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; CANADA; COUNSELING; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VULNERABLE POPULATION; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADULT; ALBERTA; AMERICAN NATIVE CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; COUNSELING; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES, INDIGENOUS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATION; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; URBAN HEALTH SERVICES; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 33747203029     PISSN: 07399332     EISSN: 10964665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07399330600817808     Document Type: Article

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