Clinical encounters between nurses and First Nations women in a Western Canadian hospital

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 64, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2165-2176

  Browne, Annette J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aboriginal people; Canada; Cultural stereotypes; First Nations women; Health care inequities; Nurses; Othering; Patient provider encounters; Racialization

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HOSPITAL SECTOR; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; STEREOTYPIC BEHAVIOR;

ABORIGINE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; NURSING PRACTICE; RACE DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AGED; CANADA; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; POPULATION GROUPS;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 34147195171     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.02.006     Document Type: Article

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