Measuring english proficiency and language preference: Are self-reportsvalid?

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 100, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1364-1366

  Ayers, John W ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL FACTOR; DECISION MAKING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ACCULTURATION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHOICE BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LINGUISTICS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MULTILINGUALISM; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 77954485859     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2010.194167     Document Type: Letter

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