Community health worker interventions to improve access to health care services for older adults from ethnic minorities: A systematic review

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Verhagen, Ilona ^a   Steunenberg, Bas ^a   De Wit, Niek J ^a   Ros, Wynand J G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Access to health care; Community health worker; Ethnic minority older adults; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MEDLINE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; HEALTH SERVICE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUP; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC);

COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; ETHNIC GROUPS; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84988661391     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12913-014-0497-1     Document Type: Review

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