Back pain in older male Italian-born immigrants in Australia: The importance of socioeconomic factors

European Journal of Pain

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 70-76

  Stanaway, Fiona F ^a   Blyth, Fiona M ^b   Cumming, Robert G ^a,b   Naganathan, Vasi ^b   Handelsman, David J ^b   Waite, Louise M ^b   Sambrook, Philip N ^b   Creasey, Helen M ^b   Seibel, Markus J ^b   Le Couteur, David G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Back pain; Italian immigrants; Older persons; Socioeconomic

Indexed keywords

NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; PARACETAMOL;

AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACKACHE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AUSTRALIA; BACK PAIN; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; ETHNIC GROUPS; HUMANS; MALE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 78650745828     PISSN: 10903801     EISSN: 15322149     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpain.2010.05.009     Document Type: Article

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