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| Knowledge and care of chronic illness in three ethnic minority groups | | Author(s) | Gay Becker, Yewoubdar Beyene, Edwina M Newsom |
| Journal title | Family Medicine, vol 30, no 3, 1998 |
| Pages | pp 173-178 |
| Keywords | Chronic illness ; Medical care ; Ethnic groups ; Black people ; Asian people ; Comparison ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Despite advances in medical approaches to the management of chronic illnesses, relatively little is known about how older members of ethnic minority groups view their chronic illnesses or how they manage them in everyday life. In this paper, 35 African-Americans, 61 Latinos and 55 Filipino-Americans - all over age 50 and with one or more chronic illness - were compared for social and cultural differences and similarities affecting the management of chronic illness. Although major chronic illnesses were, for the most part, the same for all three groups, each group differed in its response to and management of its illnesses. Implications for the education of physicians in training are discussed. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010226204 A |
| Classmark | CI: LK: TK: TKE: TKK: 48: 7T * |
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