Disparities in chronic disease risk factors and health status between American Indian/Alaska Native and white elders: Findings from a telephone survey, 2001 and 2002

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 825-827

  Denny, Clark H ^a   Holtzman, Deborah ^a   Goins, R Turner ^b   Croft, Janet B ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHRONIC DISEASE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; DIABETES MELLITUS; ESKIMO; EXERCISE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; OBESITY; POPULATION RISK; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; TELEPHONE;

ALASKA; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; INUITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING;

EID: 17844406372     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2004.043489     Document Type: Article

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