Prayer for health and primary care: Results from the 2002 national health interview survey

Family Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 638-644

  Wilkinson, Joanne E ^a   Saper, Robert B ^a   Rosen, Amy K ^b   Welles, Seth L ^c   Culpepper, Larry ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE TEST; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIVORCE; EDUCATION; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GENDER; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MANTEL HAENSZEL TEST; MARRIAGE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RACE; RELIGION; SMOKING; WIDOW;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RELIGION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 56049093268     PISSN: 07423225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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