Health-promoting behaviors and health locus of control from a multicultural perspective

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 636-642

  Cohen, Miri ^a   Azaiza, Faisal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Arab; Health locus of control; Health promoting behaviors; Jewish; Sex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARAB; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; JEW; LOCUS OF CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS;

AGED; ARABS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; ISRAEL; JEWS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; SPIRITUALITY;

EID: 36348981711     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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