An ethnographic nursing study of household health care roles of Vietnamese and ethnic Chinese/Vietnamese refugee families in the Salt Lake City area

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Title An ethnographic nursing study of household health care roles of Vietnamese and ethnic Chinese/Vietnamese refugee families in the Salt Lake City area
Publication Type thesis
School or College College of Nursing
Department Nursing
Author Yontz, Valerie Jean
Contributor Lois Wadd
Date 1982-06
Description Household health care roles in two Southeast Asian refugee cultural groups, the Vietnamese and ethnic Chinese/Vietnamese were examined using an exploratory and descriptive ethnography approach. The purposes of the study included: descriptions of health care roles; a comparative analysis of the variability of health care roles and practices between the two groups, and a longitudinal evaluation focusing on the complexity of family health care dynamics and influencing sociocultural components. Results indicated that the oldest son and the mother occupy the primary roles in the families' health care systems. Comparatively, this authoritarian role of the oldest son seems to be diminishing in the Vietnamese families as compared with the ethnic Chinese/Vietnamese. Differences between the families' health practices were also examined. The refugees are showing adaptation to American health care by accepting its pluralistic nature and electrically selecting the right health care combination for themselves and their family.
Type Text
Publisher University of Utah
Subject Medical Care; Vietnamese: Utah
Subject MESH Cross-Cultural Comparison; Health; Public Health Nursing; Family; Refugees
Dissertation Institution University of Utah
Dissertation Name MS
Language eng
Relation is Version of Digital reproduction of "An ethnographic nursing study of household health care roles of Vietnamese and ethnic Chinese/Vietnamese refugee families in the Salt Lake City area." Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library. Print version of "An ethnographic nursing study of household health care roles of Vietnamese and ethnic Chinese/Vietnamese refugee families in the Salt Lake City area." available at J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collection. RA 4.5 1982 Y65.
Rights Management © Valerie Jean Yontz
Format application/pdf
Format Medium application/pdf
Identifier undthes,212001
Source Original: University of Utah Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library (no longer available).
Funding/Fellowship University of Utah, College of Nursing Nurse Traineeship Grant.
ARK ark:/87278/s6kd20s0
Setname ir_etd
ID 191508
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6kd20s0
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