General health in Timor-Leste: Self-assessed health in a large household survey

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 378-383

  Earnest, Jaya ^a   Finger, Robert P ^a,b  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conflict; Displacement; Health; Migration; Self assessed; Timor Leste

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SELF EVALUATION; SELF REPORT; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; TIMOR-LESTE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INDONESIA; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69249162809     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-6405.2009.00411.x     Document Type: Article

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