Relationships between working status and health or health-care utilization among Japanese elderly

Geriatrics and Gerontology International

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 32-40

  Tokuda, Yasuharu ^a   Ohde, Sachiko ^a   Takahashi, Osamu ^a   Shakudo, Masaaki ^b   Yanai, Haruo ^b   Shimbo, Takuro ^b   Fukuhara, Shunichi ^c   Hinohara, Shigeaki ^a   Fukui, Tsuguya ^a  

^a ST LUKE'S INTERNATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Complementary and alternative medicine; Employment; Health careaccess; Quality of life; Socioeconomic status

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ELDERLY CARE; EMPLOYMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCOME; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COHORT STUDIES; EMPLOYMENT; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; INCOME; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 55249105283     PISSN: 14441586     EISSN: 14470594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1447-0594.2008.00444.x     Document Type: Article

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