Attitudes toward menopause and hormone therapy among women with access to health care

Menopause

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 178-188

  Woods, Nancy Fugate ^a   Saver, Barry ^a   Taylor, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Hormone therapy; Menopause attitudes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HORMONAL THERAPY; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENOPAUSE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; RISK;

AGED; ATTITUDE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENDOCRINE GLANDS; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0031697117     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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