Race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and lifetime morbidity burden in the women's health initiative: A cross-sectional analysis

Journal of Women's Health

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1161-1173

  Gold, Rachel ^a   Michael, Yvonne L ^b   Whitlock, Evelyn P ^a   Hubbell, F Allan ^c   Mason, Ellen D ^d   Rodriguez, Beatriz L ^e   Safford, Monika M ^f   Sarto, Gloria E ^g  

^a CENTER FOR HEALTH RESEARCH   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d RUSH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIVORCE; EDUCATION; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HISPANIC; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INCOME; LIFESPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NEGRO; OBESITY; PACIFIC ISLANDER; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH INSURANCE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED STATES; WIDOW; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; ASIAN AMERICANS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 33846487389     PISSN: 15409996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jwh.2006.15.1161     Document Type: Article

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