Health service use amongst users of complementary and alternative medicine

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 123, Issue 1312, 2010, Pages 26-35

  Pledger, Megan J ^a   Cumming, Jacqueline ^a   Burnette, Mili ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; AROMATHERAPY; ARTICLE; CHIROPRACTIC; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNICITY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HERBAL MEDICINE; HOMEOPATHY; HUMAN; LEISURE; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASSAGE; NEW ZEALAND; OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE; PATIENT REFERRAL; SELF REPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPIRITUAL HEALING; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; SEX FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951169507     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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