Self-rated health and its determinants among adults in Syria: A model from the Middle East

BMC Public Health

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Asfar, Taghrid ^a   Ahmad, Balsam ^b   Rastam, Samer ^a   Mulloli, Tanja P ^b   Ward, Kenneth D ^a,c   Maziak, Wasim ^a,c,d  

^a Syrian Centre for Tobacco Studies   (Syrian Arab Republic)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IDENTIFICATION KEY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; RISK; SELF RELATED HEALTH; SEX RATIO; SMOKING; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC; ADOLESCENT; AGE; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH STATUS; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SELF CONCEPT; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SYRIA;

EID: 34548575628     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-7-177     Document Type: Article

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