Challenges in access to health services and its impact on quality of life: A randomised population-based survey within Turkish speaking immigrants in London

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 10, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Topal, Kenan ^a   Eser, Erhan ^b   Sanberk, Ismail ^c   Bayliss, Elizabeth ^d   Saatci, Esra ^e  

^a PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b CELAL BAYAR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL FACULTY   (Turkey)

^c CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d Executive Director of Social Action for Health   (United Kingdom)

^e CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Health services; Quality of life; Turkish immigrants; Well being

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISABILITY; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INCOME; INTEGRATION; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PATIENT ADVOCACY; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SENESCENCE; SMOKING; SOCIAL STATUS; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UNITED KINGDOM; WELLBEING; AGE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONDON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TURKEY; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856088673     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-10-11     Document Type: Article

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