Children's Mental Health Services and Ethnic Diversity: GujaratI Families' Perspectives of Service Provision for Mental Health Problems

Transcultural Psychiatry

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 275-291

  Dogra, Nisha ^a   Vostanis, Panos ^a   Abuateya, Hala ^b   Jewson, Nick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

child mental health; cultural; ethnicity; families; services

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CONCEPT FORMATION; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNICITY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MINORITY GROUP; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICA; CATCHMENT AREA (HEALTH); CHILD; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 34250658920     PISSN: 13634615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363461507077727     Document Type: Article

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