Health profile of deaf Canadians: Analysis of the Canada Community Health Survey

Canadian Family Physician

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2007, Pages

  Woodcock, Kathryn ^a   Pole, Jason D ^b  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b School of Occupational and Public Health ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF CONCEPT; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CANADA; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEAFNESS; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HEARING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; ODDS RATIO; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 38849207418     PISSN: 0008350X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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