Gender, resources across the life course, and cognitive functioning in egypt

Demography

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 907-926

  Yount, Kathryn M ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; EGYPT; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; EGYPT; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH RESOURCES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 59849119428     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: 15337790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/dem.0.0034     Document Type: Article

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