The Boston Puerto Rican Health Study, a longitudinal cohort study on health disparities in Puerto Rican adults: Challenges and opportunities

BMC Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Tucker, Katherine L ^a,b   Mattei, Josiemer ^a,c   Noel, Sabrina E ^a,c   Collado, Bridgette M ^a   Mendez, Jackie ^a   Nelson, Jason ^d   Griffith, John ^d   Ordovas, Jose M ^a,c   Falcon, Luis M ^b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

AGED; ALLOSTASIS; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUP; PREVALENCE; PUERTO RICO; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

AGED; ALLOSTASIS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BOSTON; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; PREVALENCE; PUERTO RICO; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 77950570673     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-107     Document Type: Article

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