Socio-demographic differentials in the functional decline among the elderly in Brazil;Diferenciais sociodemográficos no declínio funcional em mobilidade física entre os idosos no Brasil

Ciencia e Saude Coletiva

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1257-1264

  Parahyba, Maria Isabel ^a   Veras, Renato ^b  

^a INSTITUTO BRASILEIRO DE GEOGRAFIA E ESTATÍSTICA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE ABERTA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Ageing; Disability; Elderly; Health indicator; Social inequality

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIOECONOMICS; WALKING DIFFICULTY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAZIL; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILITY LIMITATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 48849100728     PISSN: 14138123     EISSN: 16784561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1413-81232008000400022     Document Type: Article

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