Cultural consonance: Linking culture, the individual and health

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 390-393

  Dressler, William W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural consonance; Cultural models; Health; Measurement

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL CONSONANCE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BELIEF;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; BRAZIL; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84868300419     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: 10960260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2011.12.022     Document Type: Article

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