Culture care beliefs and practices of an Ethiopian immigrant community: An ethnonursing study
General Material Designation
[Thesis]
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[Thesis]
General Material Designation
[Thesis]
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[Thesis]
First Statement of Responsibility
Beth Desaretz Chiatti
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
Patterson, Barbara
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Widener University
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2014
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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289
GENERAL NOTES
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Committee members: Allen, Lois R.; Brown, Esther
NOTES PERTAINING TO PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-44061-4
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
Ph.D.
Discipline of degree
Nursing
Body granting the degree
Widener University
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2014
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Immigrant populations are subject to health disparities based on language differences, cultural preferences and traditions, and a lack of knowledge about how to navigate the complex U.S. health care system. A barrier to obtaining quality health care is also affected by the inability of those working in the health care system to view cultural differences as important. Nurses have an ethical responsibility to tend to the culture care needs of all patients. Ethiopians represent the third largest African immigrant population in the U.S. and generally reside in large cultural groups within major cities. The purposes of this ethnonursing study were to identify and describe the culture care beliefs and practices of Ethiopian immigrants living in the mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. and to advance the science of transcultural nursing.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Cultural anthropology; Nursing; Public policy; Ethnic studies
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
Social sciences;Health and environmental sciences;Cultural identity;Ethiopian immigrant;Ethnonursing;Health disparity;Leininger, madeleine m.;Transcultural nursing