Perceptions of unmet healthcare needs: What do Punjabi and Chinese-speaking immigrants think? A qualitative study

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Marshall, Emily G ^a   Wong, Sabrina T ^b   Haggerty, Jeannie L ^c   Levesque, Jean Fréderic ^d,e  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^d INSTITUT NATIONAL DE SANTÉ PUBLIQUE DU QUÉBEC   (Canada)

^e CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; CHINA; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INDIA; LANGUAGE; MIGRATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

CANADA; CHINA; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INDIA; LANGUAGE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS;

EID: 77649293812     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-10-46     Document Type: Article

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