Health Empowerment Among Immigrant Women in Transnational Marriages in Taiwan

Journal of Nursing Scholarship

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 135-142

  Yang, Yung Mei ^a   Wang, Hsiu Hung ^a   Lee, Fang Hsin ^b   Lin, Miao Ling ^c   Lin, Pei Chao ^a  

^a KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHUNG HWA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Health empowerment; Marriage migrant women; Participatory action research

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEHAVIOR; CONSUMER; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MARRIAGE; MIGRANT; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SATISFACTION; SELF CONCEPT; TAIWAN; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MARRIAGE; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF EFFICACY; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TAIWAN; WOMEN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84923993648     PISSN: 15276546     EISSN: 15475069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jnu.12110     Document Type: Article

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