Elderly care in daily living in rural Vietnam: Need and its socioeconomic determinants

BMC Geriatrics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Hoi, Le V ^a,b,c   Thang, Pham ^d   Lindholm, Lars ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b HANOI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

^c Central Health Information and Technology Institute   (Viet Nam)

^d National Institute of Gerontology   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ECONOMICS; HEALTH; HEALTH SERVICE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIOECONOMICS; VIET NAM;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HOME NURSING; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RURAL HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VIETNAM;

EID: 82455168260     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2318-11-81     Document Type: Article

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