Global aging: Implications for women and women's health

JOGNN - Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 627-638

  Tabloski, Patricia A ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging women; Global aging; Morbidity; Mortality trends

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALCOHOL; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BISPHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; ESTROGEN; HORMONE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; PROGESTERONE; SELECTIVE ESTROGEN RECEPTOR MODULATOR; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; TOBACCO SMOKE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AGE; AGING; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PREVENTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DRUG SAFETY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EDUCATION; FERTILITY; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCIDENCE; KINESIOTHERAPY; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LONGEVITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MARRIAGE; MENOPAUSE; MENTAL DISEASE; MORTALITY; NURSING; OSTEOPOROSIS; PEPTIC ULCER; POLITICS; PREVALENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SAFE SEX; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ASPECT; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SUICIDE; SURVIVAL; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; VAGINA PESSARY; AGED; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HEALTH; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICE; LIFESTYLE; MALE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SELF CARE; STANDARD; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF CARE; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S HEALTH SERVICES; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 21244477837     PISSN: 08842175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0884217504268655     Document Type: Article

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