Perspectives on Healthy Behaviors Among Low-Income Latino and Non-Latino Adults in Two Rural Counties

Public Health Nursing

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 528-536

  Kaiser, Betty L ^a   Baumann, Linda C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

Author keywords

Health behavior; Hispanic Americans; Low income; Rural population; Social environment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; POVERTY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WISCONSIN;

EID: 78649541590     PISSN: 07371209     EISSN: 15251446     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1446.2010.00893.x     Document Type: Article

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