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| Health care service use by Chinese seniors in British Columbia, Canada | | Author(s) | Neena L Chappell, David Lai |
| Journal title | Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, vol 13, no 1, 1998 |
| Pages | pp 21-37 |
| Keywords | Health services ; Usage [services] ; Chinese people ; Canada. |
| Annotation | This paper assesses whether the same factors are predictive of health service utilisation among Chinese older people as is true of the general population of older people in Canada. Data suggest that the health of Chinese older people is just as bad as that of other older people, and their use of health services is very similar. They have strong preferences for western over Chinese medicine and for western trained doctors over Chinese practitioners, and use services with Chinese staff, probably because of language. Approximately half of Chinese older people also engage in traditional Chinese care. Religious beliefs and a preference for traditional Chinese medicine are strongly predictive of the use of traditional care. It would appear that distinctive culture is related to the use of traditional care, but not the use of the western health care system. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-981104402 A |
| Classmark | L: QLD: TKL: 7S |
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