Social Integration and Heath Policy Issues for International Marriage Migrant Women in South Korea

Public Health Nursing

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 561-570

  Kim, Hyun Sil ^a  

^a Daegu Haany University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Health policy; International marriage migrant women; Social integration; South Korea

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LEGAL ASPECT; MARRIAGE; MENTAL STRESS; MIGRATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL MARKETING; SOUTH KOREA; STATISTICS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ACCULTURATION; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CULTURE; FEMALE; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MARRIAGE; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; SOCIAL MARKETING; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 78649583014     PISSN: 07371209     EISSN: 15251446     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1446.2010.00883.x     Document Type: Article

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