Coping with a New Health Culture: Acculturation and Online Health Information Seeking Among Chinese Immigrants in the United States

Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1427-1435

  Wang, Weirui ^a   Yu, Nan ^b  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acculturation; Chinese immigrants; Language choice; Online health information seeking; Web source choice

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ASIAN AMERICAN; CHINA; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMAN; INFORMATION SEEKING; INTERNET; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRANT; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

ACCULTURATION; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ASIAN AMERICANS; CHINA; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMANS; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR; INTERNET; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84941335269     PISSN: 15571912     EISSN: 15571920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10903-014-0106-8     Document Type: Article

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