'i put it on the back burner most days': Living with chronic risk

Health

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 633-649

  Etchegary, Holly ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

biographical disruption; chronic risk; Huntington's disease; zones of relevance

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; INTERVIEW; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; CANADA; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC TESTING; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80755168900     PISSN: 13634593     EISSN: 14617196     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363459310364162     Document Type: Article

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