The Influences of Immigration on Health Information Seeking Behaviors Among Korean Americans and Native Koreans

Health Education and Behavior

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 173-185

  Oh, Kyeung Mi ^a   Kreps, Gary ^a   Kim, Wonsun ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Pearl)   (United States)

Author keywords

health information seeking; immigration; Korean Americans; Native Koreans

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ASIAN AMERICAN; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLASSIFICATION; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; INFORMATION SEEKING; MALE; MASS MEDIUM; MIGRANT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SOUTH KOREA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRUST; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION;

ADULT; ASIAN AMERICANS; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR; MALE; MASS MEDIA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; TRUST; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 84896261211     PISSN: 10901981     EISSN: 15526127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1090198113496789     Document Type: Article

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