Doing the month and Asian cultures: Implications for health care

Home Health Care Management and Practice

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 369-371

  Tung, Wei Chen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese; Culture; Doing the month; Postpartum; Traditional practices; Women

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954977556     PISSN: 10848223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1084822310367473     Document Type: Article

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