Cross-cultural comparisons of health-related quality of life in Australian and Japanese midlife women: The Australian and Japanese Midlife Women's Health Study

Menopause

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 697-707

  Anderson, Debra J ^a   Yoshizawa, Toyoko ^b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Australian; Health related quality of life; Japanese; Lifestyle; Menopause; Sociodemographics

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; PHYTOESTROGEN;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIETARY INTAKE; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; JAPANESE; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENOPAUSE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREDICTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOM; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LIFE STYLE; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 34447300426     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/gme.0b013e3180421738     Document Type: Conference Paper

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