Racial/Ethnic Differences in Rates of Depression among Preretirement Adults

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 93, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1945-1952

  Dunlop, Dorothy D ^a,b   Song, Jing ^a,b   Lyons, John S ^b   Manheim, Larry M ^a,b   Chang, Rowland W ^a,b,c  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MINORITY GROUP; POPULATION RESEARCH; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETIREMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLE SIZE; AGED; CAUCASIAN; CLASSIFICATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; ECONOMICS; ETHNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; PROBABILITY; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0642275661     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.93.11.1945     Document Type: Article

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