Looking beyond literacy: Understanding and approaching barriers to refugee health in 2 cases of vitamin D-deficiency rickets;Regarder au-delà de la littératie: Comprendre et surmonter les obstacles à la santé des réfugiés dans 2 cas de carence en vitamine D

Canadian Family Physician

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Guigné, Francoise ^a   Duke, Pauline ^b   Rourke, Leslie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VITAMIN D;

COMPREHENSION; FAMILY; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICATION COMPLIANCE; NOTE; REFUGEE; RICKETS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

CANADA; CULTURE; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); REFUGEES; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

EID: 84879624987     PISSN: 0008350X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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