Flows of social support and health status among older persons in China

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 1995, Pages 1175-1184

  Liu, Xian ^a   Liang, Jersey ^a   Gu, Shengzu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; health status; older people; social support

Indexed keywords

ELDERLY PEOPLE; FAMILY SUPPORT; HEALTH STATUS;

CHINA, HUBEI PROVINCE, WUHAN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHINA; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PROBABILITY; SENESCENCE; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGING; CHINA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0029124125     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0277-9536(94)00427-U     Document Type: Article

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