Preventive health practices and perceived health status among women over 50

Women's Health Issues

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 279-285

  Lane, Marcia J ^a,b   Macera, Caroline A ^b,c   Croft, Janet B ^c   Meyer, Pamela A ^a,b  

^a S Carolina Dept of Hlth/E   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; SELF EVALUATION; SMOKING CESSATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030247629     PISSN: 10493867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/1049-3867(96)00026-6     Document Type: Article

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