A postcolonial feminist perspective inquiry into immigrant women's mental health care experiences

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 440-449

  Maureen O'Mahony, Joyce ^a   Truong Donnelly, Tam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; CLINICAL NURSING RESEARCH; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPENDENT PERSONALITY DISORDER; FEMALE; FEMINISM; GENDER IDENTITY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MIGRATION; NURSING; POLITICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TRANSCULTURAL CARE; CULTURAL NURSING; MIGRANT; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOLOGY;

ACCULTURATION; CANADA; CLINICAL NURSING RESEARCH; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; DEPENDENCY (PSYCHOLOGY); EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; FEMINISM; GENDER IDENTITY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; POLITICS; PREJUDICE; SOCIAL VALUES; TRANSCULTURAL NURSING;

EID: 77953227216     PISSN: 01612840     EISSN: 10964673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/01612840903521971     Document Type: Article

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