Hispanic Baby Boomers: Health inequities likely to persist in old age

Gerontologist

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 166-176

  Villa, Valentine M ^a,b   Wallace, Steven P ^a   Bagdasaryan, Sofya ^b   Aranda, Maria P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Baby Boomers; Diversity; Health inequities; Mexican origin populations

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AGED; CALIFORNIA; COHORT STUDIES; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84858389814     PISSN: 00169013     EISSN: 17585341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geront/gns002     Document Type: Article

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