Modeling spatial accessibility of immigrants to culturally diverse family physicians

Professional Geographer

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 73-91

  Wang, Lu ^a   Roisman, Deborah ^a  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Ethnicity; Family physician; Mainland Chinese immigrants

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; ETHNICITY; HEALTH CARE; IMMIGRANT POPULATION; MODELING; MULTICULTURALISM;

ARTICLE; ASIAN; CANADA; CHINA; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; HISTORY; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MIGRATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; URBAN POPULATION;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CANADA; CHINA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; ETHNIC GROUPS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; URBAN HEALTH SERVICES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 78651390206     PISSN: 00330124     EISSN: 14679272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00330124.2010.510087     Document Type: Article

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