Empowerment for migrant communities: Paradoxes for practitioners

Critical Public Health

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 365-379

  Williams, Lewis ^a   Labonte, Ronald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Culture; Empowerment; Health; Migrant

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANADA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EMPOWERMENT; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; IMMIGRANT; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL WORKER; SOCIOECONOMICS;

EID: 37549003231     PISSN: 09581596     EISSN: 14693682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09581590701598425     Document Type: Article

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