Bridges and barriers to health: Her story - Emirati women's health needs

Health Care for Women International

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 285-308

  Winslow, Wendy Wilkins ^a,b,d   Honein, Gladys ^c  

^a Practice and Quality Assurance   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARAB; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; SELF DISCLOSURE; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARABS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; HUMANS; ISLAM; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF DISCLOSURE; SOCIAL VALUES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

EID: 33847022642     PISSN: 07399332     EISSN: 10964665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07399330601180206     Document Type: Article

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