Health, cognitive, and psychosocial factors as predictors of mortality in an elderly community sample

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 83-88

  Korten, A E ^a   Jorm, A F ^a   Jiao, Z ^a   Letenneur, L ^a   Jacomb, P A ^a   Henderson, A S ^a   Christensen, H ^a   Rodgers, B ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELDERLY POPULATION; HEALTH STATUS; MORTALITY;

AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COGNITION; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DISABILITY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MORTALITY; NEUROSIS; PREDICTION; SCREENING TEST; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY; CANBERRA;

EID: 0032925218     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.53.2.83     Document Type: Article

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