Examining cultural, psychosocial, community and behavioural factors in relationship to socioeconomic inequalities in limiting longstanding illness among the Arab minority in Israel

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 351-358

  Daoud, N ^a,b   Soskolne, V ^c   Manor, O ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; HEALTH POLICY; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; LANDOWNERSHIP; MINORITY GROUP; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

ADULT; AGED; ARAB; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMMUNITY; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; CULTURAL FACTOR; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; INCOME; ISRAEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; AGED; ARABS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 66149134085     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2008.080465     Document Type: Article

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