Health status, behavior, and care utilization in the Geneva Gay Men's Health Survey

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 70-75

  Wang, Jen ^a,c   Häusermann, Michael ^b   Vounatsou, Penelope ^c   Aggleton, Peter ^d   Weiss, Mitchell G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Dialogai   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alcohol consumption; Blood pressure; Drug abuse; Glucose; Health services use; Health surveys; Homosexuality; Obesity; Risk factors; Smoking

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; GLUCOSE;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISABILITY; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; MORBIDITY; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SOCIAL ASPECT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SWITZERLAND; TELEPHONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION SURVEYS; SWITZERLAND; URBAN POPULATION; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 33846124248     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2006.08.013     Document Type: Article

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