Deficiencies in culturally competent asthma care for ethnic minority children: A qualitative assessment among care providers

BMC Pediatrics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Seeleman, Conny ^a   Stronks, Karien ^a   van Aalderen, Wim ^b   Bot, Marie Louise E ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INTERPRETER SERVICE; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PEDIATRIC NURSE; PEDIATRICIAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TREATMENT REFUSAL; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; INTERVIEW; MINORITY GROUP; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PEDIATRICS; PHYSICIAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PULMONOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STANDARD;

ASTHMA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; CULTURAL COMPETENCY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LANGUAGE; MALE; MINORITY GROUPS; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PEDIATRICS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS; PULMONARY MEDICINE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 84860319382     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2431-12-47     Document Type: Article

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