Factors associated with perceived health of very old inhabitants of Japan

Gerontology

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 258-263

  Kawada, Tomoyuki ^a   Suzuki, Shosuke ^b   Tsukioka, Tokio ^c   Iesaki, Satoru ^c  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b Gunma Occupational Health Promotion Center   (Japan)

^c Gunma Pharmaceutical Association   (Japan)

Author keywords

Perceived health; Questionnaire survey; THI scale score

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CAREER; CHECKLIST; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FRIENDSHIP; HEALTH; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; JAPAN; MALE; MARRIAGE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NERVOUSNESS; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF-ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 33746334126     PISSN: 0304324X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000093658     Document Type: Article

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