Social networks and health care: the case of elderly Latinos in East Harlem

Urban Anthropology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 49-85

  Freidenberg, Judith ^a   Hammer, Muriel ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELDERLY POPULATION; HEALTHCARE; INNER CITY AREA; LATNO PEOPLE; SOCIAL NETWORK;

USA, NEW YORK, EAST HARLEM;

EID: 0031657279     PISSN: 08946019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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