Understanding inequalities in access to health care services for aboriginal people: A call for nursing action

Advances in Nursing Science

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Cameron, Brenda L ^a   Carmargo Plazas, Maria Del Pilar ^a   Salas, Anna Santos ^a   Bourque Bearskin, R Lisa ^a   Hungler, Krista ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aboriginal health; access to health care; CBPR; health inequalities; hermeneutic phenomenology; Indigenous methodologies; nursing; partnership; social justice

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMERICAN INDIAN; CANADA; CHILD; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS HEALTH CARE; INFANT; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; NURSE ATTITUDE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; RACISM; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL STIGMA; SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY; STEREOTYPING; THEORETICAL MODEL; URBAN POPULATION; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CANADA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES, INDIGENOUS; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NARRATION; NURSE'S ROLE; RACISM; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL STIGMA; SOCIAL THEORY; STEREOTYPING; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84905924622     PISSN: 01619268     EISSN: 15505014     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ANS.0000000000000039     Document Type: Article

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