Health-related characteristics and preferred methods of receiving health education according to dominant language among Latinos aged 25 to 64 in a large Northern California health plan

BMC Public Health

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Gordon, Nancy P ^a   Iribarren, Carlos ^a  

^a DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FRUIT; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH STATUS; HEARTBURN; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERNET; MALE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES; VEGETABLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CENTRAL AMERICA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSUMER; EDUCATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; LANGUAGE; METHODOLOGY; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; CALIFORNIA; CENTRAL AMERICA; CONSUMER SATISFACTION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH STATUS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INTERNET; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILINGUALISM; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 52949152350     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-8-305     Document Type: Article

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