Health-seeking behaviors and barriers to health care of southeast Asian immigrants: Implications for the home health nurse

Home Health Care Management and Practice

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 22-30

  Xu, Yu ^a,b   Sun, Jiemin ^c   Zhang, Jianhui ^e   Xu, Zhaomin ^d  

^a University of South Alabama College of Nursing   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

^c Xinyang People's Hospital in Henan   (China)

^d ZHENGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Barrier to health care; Cultural competency; Health seeking behavior; Home health nursing; Southeast asians

Indexed keywords

EID: 52549096253     PISSN: 10848223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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