Methodological consideration of story telling in qualitative research involving Indigenous Peoples

Global Health Promotion

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 16-26

  Bird, Susan ^a   Wiles, Janine L ^b   Okalik, Looee ^c   Kilabuk, Jonah ^d   Egeland, Grace M ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami   (Canada)

^d Project Steering Committee member   (Canada)

Author keywords

diabetes; Indigenous Peoples; narrative; storytelling

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ESKIMO; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LITERATURE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANECDOTES AS TOPIC; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; INUITS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 77949896154     PISSN: 17579759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1757975909348111     Document Type: Article

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