Cultural diversity, stress, and depression: Working women in the Americas

Journal of Women's Health and Gender-Based Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1303-1311

  Handwerker, W Penn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BARBADOS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERTO RICO; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

EID: 0033404079     PISSN: 15246094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jwh.1.1999.8.1303     Document Type: Article

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