Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ660615
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2003
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Health Care Needs of Foreign-Born Asian Americans: An Overview.
Dhooper, Surjit Singh
Health & Social Work, v28 n1 p63-73 Feb 2003
This article describes the barriers to Asian Americans' ability to use health care services and analyzes the reasons for the health care system's inability to respond to their needs. Finally, it urges social work to contribute to the system's responsiveness and suggests approaches to social work intervention with and on behalf of Asian Americans. (Contains 48 references.) (GCP)
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Cultural Influences, Health Needs, Health Services, Immigrants, Social Work
Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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