Hmong culture: Tradition and change

Healing by Heart: Clinical and Ethical Case Stories of Hmong Families and Western Providers

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 11-68

  Culhane Pera, Kathleen A ^a   Xiong, Phua ^b  

^a West Side Community Health Center   (United States)

^b Family Medical Center   (United States)

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