The impact of intensive health promotion to a targeted refugee population on utilisation of a new refugee paediatric clinic at the children's hospital at Westmead

Ethnicity and Health

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 393-405

  Sheikh, Mohamud ^a   MacIntyre, C Raina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Africa; Health promotion; Refugees; Sub Sahara

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH SERVICES; HOSPITAL SECTOR; REFUGEE;

ADULT; AFRICA; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; AWARENESS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSULTATION; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFECTION; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARENTAL ATTITUDE; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PROPHYLAXIS; REFUGEE; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL NETWORK; STIGMA; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; CHILD; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NEW SOUTH WALES; OUTPATIENT CLINICS, HOSPITAL; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFUGEES; YOUNG ADULT;

AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 68849127281     PISSN: 13557858     EISSN: 14653419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13557850802653780     Document Type: Article

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