Increasing access to care for cultural and linguistic minorities: Ethnicity-specific health care organizations and infrastructure

Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 532-549

  Yang, Joshua S ^a,b   Kagawa Singer, Marjorie ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UCLA ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese community; Ethnicity specific care; Organizational development; San Francisco

Indexed keywords

CHINA; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HISTORY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MIGRATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; REVIEW; UNITED STATES;

CHINA; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; SAN FRANCISCO;

EID: 34848815085     PISSN: 10492089     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/hpu.2007.0073     Document Type: Review

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