The meaning of health among midlife Russian-speaking women

Journal of Nursing Scholarship

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 248-253

  Resick, Lenore Kolljeski ^a,b  

^a DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b 525 Fisher Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

migr s; Hermeneutic phenomenology; Immigrant or refugee health; meaning of health; Immigration; Midlife women; Russian speaking women

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GRIEF; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LIFE EVENT; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; MORALITY; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CARE; SELF CONCEPT; TRUST; UNITED STATES; USSR; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; GRIEF; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MIDDLE AGED; MORALE; MULTILINGUALISM; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CARE; SELF EFFICACY; TRUST; UNITED STATES; USSR; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS; WOMEN;

EID: 50349101795     PISSN: 15276546     EISSN: 15475069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1547-5069.2008.00233.x     Document Type: Article

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