Healthy sexual life after a cardiac event: What do we know and what do we do now?

European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 159-160

  Fridlund, Bengt ^a  

^a JÖNKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL STRESS; COPING BEHAVIOR; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MARRIAGE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL COUNSELING; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUAL SATISFACTION;

CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEXUALITY;

EID: 67650163431     PISSN: 14745151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcnurse.2009.06.002     Document Type: Editorial

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