Maintaining an outward image: A Korean immigrant's life with type 2 diabetes mellitus and hypertension

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 825-834

  Pistulka, Gina M ^a   Winch, Peter J ^b   Park, Hyunjeong ^b   Han, Hae Ra ^b   Kim, Miyong T ^b  

^a Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asian people cultures; culture cultural competence; diabetes; disclosure; hypertension; illness and disease, chronic; immigrants migrants; self care; social identity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; DIET; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF CARE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOUTH KOREA; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; CULTURAL COMPETENCY; CULTURE; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIET; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; SELF CARE; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84860523120     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732312438778     Document Type: Article

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