Social networks, ethnicity and public home-care utilisation

Ageing and Society

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 921-939

  Litwin, Howard ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Arabs; Ethnicity; Home care; Immigrants; Israel; Jews; Social network

Indexed keywords

ELDERLY POPULATION; ETHNICITY; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH STATUS; IMMIGRANT POPULATION; SOCIAL NETWORK;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; WORLD;

EID: 11144348777     PISSN: 0144686X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X04002491     Document Type: Article

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