Objective and subjective assessments of socioeconomic status and their relationship to self-rated health in an ethnically diverse sample of pregnant women

Health Psychology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 613-618

  Ostrove, Joan M ^a,d   Adler, Nancy E ^a   Kuppermann, Miriam ^b,c   Washington, A Eugene ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Medical Effectiveness Research Center for Diverse Populations   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d MACALESTER COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnicity; Self rated health; Socioeconomic status; Subjective SES

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EDUCATION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCOME; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATION; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY; SOCIOECONOMICS;

EID: 0033635366     PISSN: 02786133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-6133.19.6.613     Document Type: Article

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