Global Health Care-seeking Discourses Facing Local Clinical Realities: Exploring the Case of Cancer

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 237-255

  Andersen, Rikke Sand ^a   Tørring, Marie Louise ^a   Vedsted, Peter ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Health care system; Health care seeking; Patient delay

Indexed keywords

DENMARK; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; MORTALITY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

ANTHROPOLOGY, MEDICAL; DENMARK; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84932095073     PISSN: 07455194     EISSN: 15481387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/maq.12148     Document Type: Article

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