Chronic Disease and Its Risk Factors Among Refugees and Asylees in Massachusetts, 2001-2005

Preventing Chronic Disease

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Dookeran, Nameeta M ^a   Battaglia, Tracy ^b   Cochran, Jennifer ^c   Geltman, Paul L ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICA; ARTICLE; ASIA; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MORBIDITY; REFUGEE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICA, CENTRAL; ASIA, CENTRAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MORBIDITY; REFUGEES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 77954697546     PISSN: 15451151     EISSN: 21665435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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