Psychosocial work characteristics predict cardiovascular disease risk factors and health functioning in rural women: The Wisconsin Rural Women's Health Study

Journal of Rural Health

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 295-302

  Chikani, Vatsal ^a   Reding, Douglas ^b   Gunderson, Paul ^b   McCarty, Catherine A ^b  

^a ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES   (United States)

^b MARSHFIELD CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; INSULIN; LIPID; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL STRESS; RURAL AREA; SHORT FORM 36; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; UNITED STATES; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; WISCONSIN; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 25144500118     PISSN: 0890765X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-0361.2005.tb00098.x     Document Type: Article

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