Contextual Empowerment: The Impact of Health Brigade Involvement on the Women of Miraflor, Nicaragua

Journal of Transcultural Nursing

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 49-56

  Jewell, Gayla ^a  

^a GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cultural bias; empowerment; gender power inequity; grounded theory; Nicaragua; qualitative research

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEHAVIOR; CLERGY; COOPERATION; DISASTER; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MIDDLE AGED; NICARAGUA; NURSING EDUCATION; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STUDENT; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FACULTY, NURSING; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL EXCHANGE; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MICHIGAN; MIDDLE AGED; MISSIONS AND MISSIONARIES; NATURAL DISASTERS; NICARAGUA; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; RELIEF WORK; RURAL POPULATION; SEX FACTORS; STUDENTS, NURSING; WOMEN; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

EID: 33845795244     PISSN: 10436596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1043659606294192     Document Type: Article

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