Childhood illness, family comorbidity, and cumulative disadvantage: An ethnographic treatise on low-income mothers' health in later life

Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 233-265

  Burton, Linda M ^a   Bromell, Lea ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULTHOOD; AFRICAN AMERICAN; BOOK; CAUCASIAN; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COMORBIDITY; DEHYDRATION; DIARRHEA; DIET; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH; FAMILY; GROUNDED THEORY; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEART INFARCTION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMOBILIZATION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MATERNAL WELFARE; MENTAL HEALTH; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; POVERTY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RHEUMATIC FEVER; SELF REPORT; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 78651437717     PISSN: 01988794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1891/0198-8794.30.233     Document Type: Article

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