'Fasting and prayer don't concern the doctors they don't even know what it is': Communication, decision-making and perceived social relations of Pakistani Muslim patients with long-term illnesses

Ethnicity and Health

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 327-342

  Mir, Ghazala ^a   Sheikh, Aziz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

health inequalities; long term illness; Pakistani Muslims; psychosocial well being; religion; social status

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ETHNIC MINORITY; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH STATUS; ISLAMISM; SOCIAL STATUS;

ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DECISION MAKING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; PAKISTAN; RELIGION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED KINGDOM;

CHRONIC DISEASE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; ISLAM; MALE; PAKISTAN; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 77955939522     PISSN: 13557858     EISSN: 14653419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13557851003624273     Document Type: Article

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