Accessing primary health care: A meta-ethnography of the experiences of British South Asian patients with diabetes, coronary heart disease or a mental health problem

Chronic Illness

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 135-155

  Garrett, Charlotte R ^a   Gask, Linda L ^a   Hays, Rebecca ^a   Cherrington, Andrea ^a   Bundy, Christine ^a   Dickens, Chris ^a,b,c   Waheed, Waquas ^a,d   Coventry, Peter A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c DEVON PARTNERSHIP NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^d Foundation Trust   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

access to healthcare; British South Asians; candidacy; long term conditions; meta synthesis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CULTURAL VALUE; DATA BASE; DATA EXTRACTION; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DIABETES MELLITUS; ETHNOGRAPHY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MENTAL DISEASE; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOANALYSIS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY CONTROL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOUTH ASIA; SPATIAL MEMORY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; WORK;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ASIA, WESTERN; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CORONARY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84861060706     PISSN: 17423953     EISSN: 17459206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1742395312441631     Document Type: Article

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