Promoting health: Perspective from ethnic elderly women

Journal of Community Health Nursing

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 31-44

  Zhan, Lin ^a   Cloutterbuck, Jane ^a   Keshian, Jacqueline ^a   Lombardi, Linda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHINESE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; NEGRO; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; MIDDLE AGED; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 0031594776     PISSN: 07370016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327655jchn1501_4     Document Type: Article

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