Adversity and resiliency in the lives of Native Hawaiian elders

Social Work

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 253-261

  Browne, Colette V ^a   Mokuau, Noreen ^b   Braun, Kathryn L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b Social Work and Public Health and Co investigator   (United States)

Author keywords

Culturally based solutions; Ethnic minority aged; Life course framework; Native hawaiians; Social and health disparities

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL WORK; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CULTURE; HAWAII; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOCIAL WORK;

EID: 67651154290     PISSN: 00378046     EISSN: 15456846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sw/54.3.253     Document Type: Article

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