The Relationship Between Rural Status, Individual Characteristics, and Self-Rated Health in the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System

Journal of Rural Health

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 327-338

  Bethea, Traci N ^a   Lopez, Russell P ^b   Cozier, Yvette C ^a,c   White, Laura F ^c   Mcclean, Michael D ^c  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Health disparities; Obesity; Self rated health; Social determinants of health

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL RISK FACTOR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; POVERTY; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SELF REPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BEHAVIORAL RISK FACTOR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; POVERTY; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SELF REPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84868001873     PISSN: 0890765X     EISSN: 17480361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-0361.2012.00414.x     Document Type: Article

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