Culturally and linguistically diverse patients’ views of multimorbidity and general practice care

Journal of Primary Health Care

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 228-235

  McKinlay, Eileen ^a   Graham, Stewart ^a   Horrill, Pauline ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b Newtown Union Health Service   (New Zealand)

^c Evolve Youth Service   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Access to health care; Ethnic groups; Focus groups; General practice; Health literacy; Self care

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMORBIDITY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF CARE; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; COMORBIDITY; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF CARE;

EID: 84941203791     PISSN: 11726164     EISSN: 11726156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/hc15228     Document Type: Article

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