Somali immigrant women and the American health care system: Discordant beliefs, divergent expectations, and silent worries

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 353-361

  Pavlish, Carol Lynn ^a   Noor, Sahra ^b   Brandt, Joan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIV OF MINNESOTA HOSP AND CLINIC   (United States)

^c AUGSBURG COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN IMMIGRANT; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH CARE; MENTAL HEALTH; RACIAL DISPARITY; REFUGEE; WOMENS HEALTH;

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEMALE; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; MENTAL HEALTH; SOMALIA; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; CULTURAL COMPETENCY; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MIDDLE AGED; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; SOMALIA; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

SOMALIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77953683825     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.04.010     Document Type: Article

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