Attitudes toward hepatitis B virus among Vietnamese, Chinese and Korean Americans in the Houston Area, Texas

Journal of Community Health

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1091-1100

  Hwang, Jessica P ^a   Roundtree, Aimee K ^b   Suarez Almazor, Maria E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON DOWNTOWN   (United States)

Author keywords

Asian Americans; Attitude to health; Hepatitis B; Outreach and education

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHINA; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KOREA; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; VIET NAM;

ACCULTURATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ASIAN AMERICANS; CHINA; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEPATITIS B; HUMANS; KOREA; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TEXAS; VIETNAM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866730166     PISSN: 00945145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10900-012-9543-2     Document Type: Article

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