Use of complementary and alternative medicine among the ethnic elderly

Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 50-57

  Najm, Wadie ^a   Reinsch, Sibylle ^b   Hoehler, Fred ^b   Tobis, Jerome ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VITAMIN;

ACUPUNCTURE; AGED; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; ASIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHINESE MEDICINE; DECISION MAKING; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ELDERLY CARE; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; MASSAGE; PAIN; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPAIN; TREATMENT INDICATION; VIET NAM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN AMERICANS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF MEDICATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037955518     PISSN: 10786791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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