Elderly health and its correlations among uzbek population

Nagoya Journal of Medical Science

Volumn 74, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 71-82

  Pulatova, Goolbahor ^a,b   Harun Or Rashid, Md ^a   Yoshida, Yoshitoku ^a   Sakamoto, Junichi ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Ministry of Health   (Uzbekistan)

Author keywords

Correlations; Elderly; Elderly health; Uzbekistan

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FAMILY RELATION; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UZBEKISTAN;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; ODDS RATIO; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UZBEKISTAN;

EID: 84860648867     PISSN: 00277622     EISSN: 21863326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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