Depression in older people in rural China

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 165, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 2019-2025

  Chen, Ruoling ^a,d   Wei, Li ^c   Hu, Zhi ^d   Qin, Xia ^d   Copeland, John R M ^b   Hemingway, Harry ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^d ANHUI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHINA; DEPRESSION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LIFE EVENT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TELEVISION;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 25444491977     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.165.17.2019     Document Type: Article

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