Sex and the city: Differences in disease- and disability-free life years, and active community participation of elderly men and women in 7 cities in Latin America and the Caribbean

BMC Public Health

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Rose, Angela M C ^a   Hennis, Anselm J ^a   Hambleton, Ian R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CENTRAL AMERICA; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRIC CARE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CITY; DISABLED PERSON; MIDDLE AGED; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS; VOLUNTARY WORKER;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARIBBEAN REGION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CITIES; COMORBIDITY; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LATIN AMERICA; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SEX DISTRIBUTION; VOLUNTARY WORKERS;

EID: 44049090554     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-8-127     Document Type: Article

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