Health-Related Quality of Life and Culture

Seminars in Oncology Nursing

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 59-67

  Kagawa Singer, Marjorie ^a   Padilla, Geraldine V ^a   Ashing Giwa, Kimlin ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

culture; ethnicity; Health related quality of life; race

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; EVIDENCE BASED NURSING; EXISTENTIALISM; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; MODEL; NEOPLASM; NURSING; NURSING RESEARCH; ONCOLOGY NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIGION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TRANSCULTURAL CARE; UNITED STATES;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; EVIDENCE-BASED NURSING; EXISTENTIALISM; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MODELS, NURSING; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; NURSING RESEARCH; ONCOLOGIC NURSING; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SPIRITUALITY; STEREOTYPING; TRANSCULTURAL NURSING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 75749139335     PISSN: 07492081     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soncn.2009.11.008     Document Type: Article

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