Health determinants: Using secondary data to model predictors of well-being of Jamaicans

West Indian Medical Journal

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 476-481

  Bourne, P A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; JAMAICA; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PSYCHOSOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESIDENTIAL AREA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; WELLBEING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MENTAL STRESS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TRENDS;

ADULT; EPIDEMIOLOGIC FACTORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAMAICA; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 65249097681     PISSN: 00433144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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