Effect of cancer screening and desirable health behaviors on functional status, self-rated health, health service use and mortality

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 66-74

  Fillenbaum, Gerda G ^a,b,c   Burchett, Bruce M ^a   Kuchibhatla, Maragatha N ^b   Cohen, Harvey J ^a,b,c   Blazer, Dan G ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c DURHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer screens; Death; Functional status; Health behaviors; Hospitalization

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SELF CONCEPT; SENESCENCE; SMOKING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS;

EID: 33845985616     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2006.01009.x     Document Type: Article

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