Identifying Chinese populations in the UK for epidemiological research: Experience of a name analysis of the FHSA register

Public Health

Volumn 111, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 331-337

  Harland, J O ^a,b   White, M ^a   Bhopal, R S ^a   Raybould, S ^a   Unwin, N C ^a   Alberti, Kgmm ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chinese; Community survey; Ethnicity; Sampling

Indexed keywords

CHINESE POPULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL RESEARCH; NAME ANALYSIS; POPULATION IDENTIFICATION;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHINESE; COMMUNITY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; POPULATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; REGISTER; RISK FACTOR; SAMPLE; SAMPLING; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ENGLAND; NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE; TYNE AND WEAR; UK;

EID: 0030773891     PISSN: 00333506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0033-3506(97)00064-4     Document Type: Article

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