Mexican Immigrants’ and Mexican Americans’ Perceptions of Hypertension

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1685-1693

  Barnes, Donelle M ^a   lu, Julie Hue ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

hypertension; Latino Hispanic people; Mexican Americans; phenomenology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84880732904     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732312458181     Document Type: Article

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