'Pressure of life': Ethnicity as a mediating factor in mid-life and older peoples' experience of high blood pressure

Sociology of Health and Illness

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 583-610

  Higginbottom, Gina Marie Awoko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

African Caribbean; Chronic illness; Ethnicity; High blood pressure; Hypertension

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AFRICA; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CENTRAL AMERICA; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL CLASS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFRICA; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CARIBBEAN REGION; ENGLAND; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INTERVIEWS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 33747123942     PISSN: 01419889     EISSN: 14679566     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2006.00508.x     Document Type: Article

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