Factors associated with intensiveness of use of child preventive health services in Taiwan: A comparative study between cross-cultural immigrant families and native-born families

Ethnicity and Health

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-17

  Chien, Su Chen ^a   Yeh, Yen Po ^b   Wu, Jyun Yi ^c   Lin, Chun Hsiu ^c   Chang, Pei Chi ^c   Fang, Chiung Hui ^c   Yang, Hao Jan ^c,d  

^a CHANGHUA CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b Changhua County Public Health Bureau   (Taiwan)

^c CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Child preventive health services; Cross cultural families; Immigrant; Southeast Asia; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS SECTION; DATA SET; DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH SERVICES; IMMIGRATION; NUMERICAL MODEL;

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; METHODOLOGY; MIGRATION; MOTHER; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTHEAST ASIA; STATISTICS; TAIWAN; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ACCULTURATION; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFANT; MOTHERS; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TAIWAN; TRANSPORTATION;

TAIWAN;

EID: 84876149376     PISSN: 13557858     EISSN: 14653419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13557858.2012.668876     Document Type: Article

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