Factors associated with good self-rated health of non-disabled elderly living alone in Japan: A cross-sectional study

BMC Public Health

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Sun, Wei ^a,b   Watanabe, Misuzu ^a   Tanimoto, Yoshimi ^a   Shibutani, Takahiro ^a   Kono, Rei ^a   Saito, Masahisa ^a   Usuda, Kan ^a   Kono, Koichi ^a  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISABLED PERSON; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTEGRATION; JAPAN; LIFESTYLE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POPULATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMOGRAPHY; FAMILY SIZE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH; HEALTH STATUS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SELF CONCEPT; SINGLE PERSON; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 38049082966     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-7-297     Document Type: Article

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