El cambio de vida: Conceptualizations of menopause and midlife among urban latina women

Research and Theory for Nursing Practice

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 91-102

  Villarruel, Antonia M ^a   Harlow, Sioban D ^a   Lopez, Maria ^a   Sowers, MaryFran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CONTENT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MENOPAUSE; AGING; ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; HISPANIC; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIFE EVENT; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; AGING; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0036616363     PISSN: 15416577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1891/rtnp.16.2.91.53002     Document Type: Article

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