The disconnect between perceptions of health and measures of health in a rural appalachian sample: Implications for public health social workers

Social Work in Health Care

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 292-304

  Ely, Gretchen E ^a   Miller, Kim ^b   Dignan, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b SOUTHEAST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BODY IMAGE; CAUCASIAN; CHRONIC DISEASE; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RURAL POPULATION; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APPALACHIAN REGION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BODY IMAGE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; KENTUCKY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; RURAL POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79957847778     PISSN: 00981389     EISSN: 1541034X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00981389.2010.534342     Document Type: Article

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