Relationship between subjective social status and measures of health in older Taiwanese persons

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 483-488

  Hu, Peifeng ^a   Adler, Nancy E ^b   Goldman, Noreen ^c   Weinstein, Maxine ^d   Seeman, Teresa E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Functional status; Self rated health; Subjective SES

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; ELDERLY CARE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INCOME; MALE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; TAIWAN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SOCIAL CLASS; TAIWAN;

EID: 17444382677     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2005.53169.x     Document Type: Article

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