The use of biomedicine, complementary and alternative medicine, and ethnomedicine for the treatment of epilepsy among people of South Asian origin in the UK

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Rhodes, Penny J ^a   Small, Neil ^b   Ismail, Hanif ^a   Wright, John P ^a  

^a BRADFORD TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EPILEPSY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FAMILY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH BELIEF; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MORALITY; QUACKERY; RELIGION; SPIRITUAL HEALING; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; UNITED KINGDOM; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ETHNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICONVULSANTS; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 42549111119     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-8-7     Document Type: Article

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