Regional differences in multidimensional aspects of health: Findings from the MRC cognitive function and ageing study

BMC Public Health

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Matthews, Fiona E ^a   Miller, Laura L ^a   Brayne, Carol ^a   Jagger, Carol ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; SELF CONCEPT; UNITED KINGDOM; WELLBEING; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION DISORDERS; COHORT ANALYSIS; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; GEOGRAPHY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH; HEALTH SURVEY; LIFE EVENT; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COGNITION DISORDERS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RURAL HEALTH; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 33744967980     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-6-90     Document Type: Article

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