Women's midlife health across cultures: DAMES comparative analysis

Menopause

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 760-768

  Parsons, Michelle A ^a   Obermeyer, Carla Makhlouf ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture; Menopause; Midlife; Reported health; Symptoms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FAMILY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LEBANON; MENOPAUSE; MOROCCO; PAIN; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPAIN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; WAR; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WORK;

ADULT; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; LEBANON; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; MOROCCO; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPAIN; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 34447335834     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/gme.0b013e3180415e54     Document Type: Conference Paper

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