Health Status, Health Conditions, and Health Behaviors Among Amish Women. Results from the Central Pennsylvania Women's Health Study (CePAWHS)

Women's Health Issues

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 162-171

  Miller, Kirk ^a   Yost, Berwood ^a   Flaherty, Sean ^a   Hillemeier, Marianne M ^b   Chase, Gary A ^c   Weisman, Carol S ^c   Dyer, Anne Marie ^c  

^a FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MENTAL HEALTH; NORMAL HUMAN; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PREMATURITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PENNSYLVANIA; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL HEALTH; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 34249691936     PISSN: 10493867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.whi.2007.02.011     Document Type: Article

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