Medicine and health practices of Pakistani migrant women in New Zealand

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Medicine and health practices of Pakistani migrant women in New Zealand

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University of Otago

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Otago University Research Archive

Description

Worldwide very few studies have focussed on immigrant women’s medicine-taking and healthcare practices for their families in a new country. It is imperative to understand what barriers they face, and how they navigate the new and different healthcare system in the host country. In order to understand pre-migration experiences and how they might affect migrants, my first study used semi-structured interviews and focus groups to explore women’s role in health and medicine practices of older peo...

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Research paper

Research format

Scholarly text / Thesis

Thesis level

Doctoral

Date created

2021

Creator

Akhtar, Sumera

URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10523/12484

Related subjects

Pakistan / NewZealand / Immigrants / Selfmedication / Mothers / Facebook

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