Keeping healthy! Whose responsibility is it anyway? Vietnamese Canadian women and their healthcare providers' perspectives: Feature

Nursing Inquiry

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 2-12

  Donnelly, Tam Truong ^a   Mckellin, William ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Healthcare policy; Healthcare responsibility; Immigrants' and refugees' health care

Indexed keywords

AGED; ASIAN; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST TUMOR; CANADA; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; MOTIVATION; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PHYSICIAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR; VIET NAM;

AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CANADA; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PHYSICIANS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VIETNAM; WOMEN;

EID: 33846924520     PISSN: 13207881     EISSN: 14401800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1800.2007.00347.x     Document Type: Review

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