Preventive Health Care Among Older Women in an Academic Primary Care Practice

Women's Health Issues

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 249-256

  Schonberg, Mara A ^a   York, Meghan ^a   Basu, Nisha ^a   Ölveczky, Daniele ^a   Marcantonio, Edward R ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; COMORBIDITY; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; ELDERLY CARE; EXERCISE; FALLING; FEMALE; GERIATRIC CARE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MOOD; OSTEOPOROSIS; PATIENT COUNSELING; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; SCREENING TEST; TERMINAL DISEASE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BOSTON; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 45849132028     PISSN: 10493867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.whi.2007.12.004     Document Type: Article

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