E. Environmental disease burden in Arab-American communities in the Detroit area: Prevalence and severity

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 15, Issue 1 SUPPL. 1, 2005, Pages

  Johnson, Mary ^a   Hammad, Adnan ^b   Nriagu, Jerome O ^a   Savoie, Kathryn ^b   Jamil, Hikmet ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services   (United States)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGY; ARAB; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BLADDER DISEASE; CANCER; CHRONIC BRONCHITIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COUGHING; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EAR INFECTION; ECZEMA; EMPHYSEMA; ENTEROPATHY; ENVIRONMENTAL DISEASE; ETHNOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART DISEASE; HOUSEHOLD; HOUSING; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INTERVIEW; ISCHEMIA; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PNEUMONIA; PREVALENCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT; SINUSITIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; UNITED STATES; COST OF ILLNESS; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; HEALTH; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE EAST; STATISTICS;

ARABS; ASTHMA; CHRONIC DISEASE; COST OF ILLNESS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; HUMANS; MICHIGAN; MIDDLE EAST; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 20644460997     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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