A comparison of the health status and behavioral risk factors among english-speaking Hispanics and non-Hispanic blacks and whites in Missouri

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 291-297

  Yun, Shumei ^a   Kapp, Julie M Krygiel ^b   Homan, Sherri G ^a   Hunter, Andrew ^a   Zhu, Bao Ping ^a  

^a MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SENIOR SERVICES   (United States)

^b University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral risk factors; Chronic diseases; Health status; Healthcare coverage; Hispanics; Preventive care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; CANCER SCREENING; CAUCASIAN; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLONOSCOPY; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; PREVALENCE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MISSOURI; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK-TAKING;

EID: 34447519009     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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