The need for change in UK mental health services: South Asian service users' views

Ethnicity and Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-19

  Bowl, Ric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cultural Sensitivity; Racism; Service User Perspectives; Social Exclusion; South Asians

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL CHANGE; ETHNIC MINORITY; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH SURVEY; MENTAL HEALTH; RACISM; SOCIAL EXCLUSION;

ARTICLE; CULTURAL SENSITIVITY; ETHNIC GROUP; INTERVIEW; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTH ASIA; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MIDDLE AGED; PAKISTAN; PATIENT SATISFACTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33751583671     PISSN: 13557858     EISSN: 14653419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13557850601002239     Document Type: Article

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