Understanding family, social and health experience patterns in British Bangladeshi families: Are people as diverse as they seem?

Primary Health Care Research and Development

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 333-344

  Hawthorne, Kamila ^a   Pill, Rosin ^a   Chowdhury, Jasmin ^b   Prior, Lindsay ^c  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Barefoot Health Workers Project   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

British Bangladeshi; health and social care patterns; primary care

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011457729     PISSN: 14634236     EISSN: 14771128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1463423607000369     Document Type: Article

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