The influence of culture on immigrant women's mental health care experiences from the perspectives of health care providers

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 453-471

  O'Mahony, Joyce Maureen ^a   Donnelly, Tam Truong ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANADA; CULTURAL FACTOR; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MIGRATION; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RELIGION; REVIEW; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ACCULTURATION; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANADA; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL VALUES; SPIRITUALITY; STEREOTYPING; WOMEN;

EID: 34547368223     PISSN: 01612840     EISSN: 10964673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01612840701344464     Document Type: Review

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