Asthma, culture, and cultural analysis: Continuing challenges

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 795, Issue , 2014, Pages 321-332

  Fortun, Mike ^a   Fortun, Kim ^a   Costelloe Kuehn, Brandon ^a   Saheb, Tahereh ^a   Price, Daniel ^b   Kenner, Alison ^c   Crowder, Jerome ^d  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^c DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropology of science; Compliance and cultural competency; Cultural frames; Environmental health; Explanatory pluralism; Qualitative methods; Transdisciplinarity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; CULTURAL FACTOR; CULTURAL VALUE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ASTHMA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; ETHNIC GROUPS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; POLITICS; PREJUDICE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84934435104     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-8603-9_20     Document Type: Article

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