Cultural consonance and arterial blood pressure in urban Brazil

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 527-540

  Dressler, William W ^a   Balieiro, Mauro C ^b   Ribeiro, Rosane P ^c   Dos Santos, José Ernesto ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b PAULISTA UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Brazil; Cultural consonance; Cultural models

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL IDENTITY; HEALTH STATUS; LIFESTYLE;

ADULT; BRAZIL; COMMUNITY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MODEL; REVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; URBAN POPULATION;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 19444376822     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.12.013     Document Type: Article

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