Disability among elderly rural villagers: Report of a survey from Gonoshasthaya Kendra, Bangladesh

BMC Public Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Cherry, Nicola ^a   Chowdhury, Morshed ^b   Haque, Rezaul ^c   McDonald, Corbett ^d   Chowdhury, Zafrullah ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Department of Biochemistry   (Bangladesh)

^c Gonoshasthaya Kendra Saver ^*  (Bangladesh)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e Gonoshasthaya Kendra   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISABILITY; DISABLED PERSON; ECONOMICS; ELDERLY CARE; FAMILY RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATOR; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSTAL MAIL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; SEX RATIO; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BANGLADESH; CENSUSES; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISABLED PERSONS; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTAL SERVICE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 84861413247     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-379     Document Type: Article

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