Perceived health in a population based sample of victims of the 1956 polio epidemic in the Netherlands

Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 695-700

  Nollet, F ^a   Ivanyi, B ^b   Beelen, A ^a   De Haan, R J ^c   Lankhorst, G J ^a   De Visser, M ^c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b De Vogellanden Center for Rehabilitation   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; NETHERLANDS; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POLIOMYELITIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

ADULT; AGED; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; POLIOMYELITIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEX FACTORS; SICK ROLE; SURVIVORS;

EID: 0036904802     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.73.6.695     Document Type: Article

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