"Third places" for healthy aging: Online opportunities for health promotion and disease management in adults in harlem

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 175-176

  Northridge, Mary E ^a   Nye, Andrea ^b   Zhang, Yuan ^b   Jack, Gwendolyne ^c   Cohall, Alwyn T ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b School of Public Health ^*  (United States)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGING; ASTHMA; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNICITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCOME; INTERNET; LETTER; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NEOPLASM; SOCIALIZATION;

AGED; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; INTERNET; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEW YORK CITY; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 78651402026     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2010.03217.x     Document Type: Letter

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