Disability status differentials across fifteen asian and pacific islander groups and the effect of nativity and duration of residence in the U.S.

Social Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 171-195

  Cho, Youngtae ^a   Hummer, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISABILITY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; MIGRATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTHEAST ASIA; STATISTICS;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; ASIAN AMERICANS; DISABILITY EVALUATION; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0035470701     PISSN: 0037766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19485565.2001.9989034     Document Type: Article

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