Effect of interventions to improve health care services for ethnic minority populations

Norsk Epidemiologi

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 41-52

  Forsetlund, Louise ^a   Eike, Morten Christoph ^a,b   Vist, Gunn E ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN KNOWLEDGE CENTRE FOR THE HEALTH SERVICES   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CANCER SCREENING; CULTURAL FACTOR; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA EXTRACTION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EDUCATION PROGRAM; ETHNIC GROUP; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; KIDNEY GRAFT; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MINORITY HEALTH; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REFERENCE DATABASE; SMOKING CESSATION; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TELECOMMUNICATION;

EID: 79952858752     PISSN: 08032491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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