Monitoring inequities in self-rated health over the life course in population surveillance systems

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 680-689

  Chittleborough, Catherine R ^a,b   Taylor, Anne W ^b   Baum, Fran E ^c   Hiller, Janet E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES   (Australia)

^c FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULTHOOD; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FAMILY; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFE; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALE; MONITORING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF EVALUATION; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMICS; TELEPHONE; ADOLESCENT; AUSTRALIA; HEALTH DISPARITY; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SOCIAL MOBILITY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 63149151599     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2008.141713     Document Type: Article

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