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Factors affecting utilization of health services and home- and community-based care programs by older Taiwanese in the United States
Author(s)	Tsuann Kuo, Fernando M Torres-Gil
Journal title	Research on Ageing, vol 23, no 1, January 2001
Pages	pp 14-36
Keywords	Chinese people ; Taiwan ; Health services ; Domiciliary services ; Community care ; Usage [services] ; Social surveys ; United States of America.
Annotation	Older Taiwanese people represent a recent and rapidly growing immigrant group to the US. As with other newly arrived Asians, knowledge is limited regarding their health status and use of health-related services. This article analysed data on the 240 participants in the 1994 Southern California Taiwanese American Elder Survey, based on a modified Andersen behavioural model including both cultural and structural variables. Significant variables included health needs, cultural beliefs, and socioeconomic and structural variables; however, variables predicting use of health services and home- and community-based care (HCBC) were different. Future provision for older Taiwanese should be culturally sensitive and consider family as a unit of intervention. More multidisciplinary research should explore how cultural and structural variables contribute to service use by newly arrived Asian immigrants. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-010723202 A
Classmark	TKL: 7DP: L: N: PA: QLD: 3F: 7T
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