Reported health, lifestyles, and use of health care of first generation immigrants in the Netherlands: Do socioeconomic factors explain their adverse position?

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 298-304

  Reijneveld, Sijmen A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH STATUS; HEALTHCARE; IMMIGRANT POLLUTION; LIFESTYLE; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOROCCO; NETHERLANDS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 0031744715     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.52.5.298     Document Type: Article

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