"No me ponían mucha importancia": Care-seeking experiences of undocumented Mexican immigrant women with chronic illness

Advances in Nursing Science

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Chandler, Juliet T ^a   Malone, Ruth E ^b   Thompson, Lisa M ^b   Rehm, Roberta S ^b  

^a Monterey County Health Department   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

barriers to health care; chronic illness; immigrant; invisibility; perceived discrimination; phenomenology; recognition; undocumented women

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; DOCUMENTATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERSONHOOD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL STIGMA; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DOCUMENTATION; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PERSONHOOD; SOCIAL STIGMA;

EID: 84861070200     PISSN: 01619268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ANS.0b013e31825373fe     Document Type: Article

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