Rurality and ethnicity in adolescent physical illness: Are children of the growing rural Latino population at excess health risk?

Journal of Rural Health

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 228-237

  Wickrama, K A S ^a   Elder Jr , Glen H ^b   Abraham, W Todd ^c  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ACCULTURATION; ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; CHRONIC DISEASE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; RURAL HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34250222746     PISSN: 0890765X     EISSN: 17480361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-0361.2007.00095.x     Document Type: Article

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