A chronic disease is a disease which keeps coming back. it is like the flu: Chronic disease risk perception and explanatory models among French- and Swahili-speaking African migrants

Ethnicity and Health

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 597-613

  Cooper, Maxwell ^a   Harding, Seeromanie ^a   Mullen, Kenneth ^a   O'Donnell, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Africa; Cancer; Chronic disease; Hypertension; Migrants; Obesity; Qualitative

Indexed keywords

CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; HYPERTENSION; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; LIVESTOCK; MIGRATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; PERCEPTION; POLLUTION EFFECT; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; ETHNOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; NEOPLASM; OBESITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK FACTOR; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OBESITY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK FACTORS; SCOTLAND; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; YOUNG ADULT;

AFRICA; FRANCE;

EID: 84876121440     PISSN: 13557858     EISSN: 14653419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13557858.2012.740003     Document Type: Article

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