Working with culture: Lessons learned from a community-engaged project in a Chinese aging population

Aging Health

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 529-537

  Dong, Xinqi ^a   Chang, E Shien ^a   Wong, Esther ^b   Simon, Melissa ^c  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Chinese American Service League   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

aging; Chinese American; community health partnerships; community based participatory research; health promotion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CHINESE; COMMUNITY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; SOCIAL ASPECT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80051720059     PISSN: 1745509X     EISSN: 17455103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/ahe.11.43     Document Type: Article

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