Ethnic health care advisors: A good strategy to improve the access to health care and social welfare services for ethnic minorities?

Journal of Community Health

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 419-429

  Hesselink, Arlette E ^a   Verhoeff, Arnoud P ^a,b   Stronks, Karien ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Access to health care; Action research; Community health worker; Ethnic minority groups; Public health; Social welfare

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICA; ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MOROCCO; NETHERLANDS; POPULATION; REGISTRATION; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOCIAL WELFARE; SOCIAL WORK; SURINAME; TASK PERFORMANCE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); COMMUNITY CARE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICE; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUP; PATIENT REFERRAL; SOCIAL MARKETING; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TURKEY;

ADULT; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; MOROCCO; NETHERLANDS; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; SOCIAL MARKETING; SOCIAL WELFARE; SURINAME; TURKEY;

EID: 70049095812     PISSN: 00945145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10900-009-9171-7     Document Type: Article

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