Socioeconomic factors and women's use of complementary and alternative medicine in four racial/ethnic groups

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 65-71

  Chao, Maria T ^a,b   Wade, Christine M ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative medicines; Complementary medicine, race; Ethnicity; Socioeconomic status

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIOECONOMICS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECONOMICS; ETHNIC GROUP; MIDDLE AGED; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 47549093571     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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