Can we capture the intersections? older black women, education, and health

Women's Health Issues

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Hinze, Susan W ^a   Lin, Jielu ^a   Andersson, Tanetta E ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FEMINISM; GENDER BIAS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; MALE; NEGRO; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; RESEARCH PRIORITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL LIFE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84855598749     PISSN: 10493867     EISSN: 18784321     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.whi.2011.08.002     Document Type: Article

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