Women with heart disease: Can the Common-Sense model of illness help?

Health Care for Women International

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 355-368

  Shifren, Kim ^a  

^a TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPOCHOLESTEROLEMIC AGENT;

BEHAVIOR; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEART DISEASE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART RATE; HEART REHABILITATION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIFESTYLE; LIVER INJURY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MENTAL HEALTH; MORTALITY; NUTRITION; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROCESS MODEL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; RISK MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL STATUS; STRESS; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NARRATION; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; WOMEN; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 0242539936     PISSN: 07399332     EISSN: 10964665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07399330390191715     Document Type: Article

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