Healthg-illness transition experiences among mexican immigrant women with diabetes

Family and Community Health

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 201-212

  McEwen, Marylyn Morris ^a   Baird, Martha ^a   Pasvogel, Alice ^a   Gallegos, Gwen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b Carondelet Health Network   (United States)

Author keywords

Diabetes; Mexican immigrant health; Promotoras; Transitions; US Mexico border

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MIDDLE AGED; SELF EFFICACY; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 34250307056     PISSN: 01606379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.FCH.0000277763.70031.0d     Document Type: Article

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