Rural-urban differences in health behaviors and implications for health status among US cancer survivors

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1481-1490

  Weaver, Kathryn E ^a   Palmer, Nynikka ^a   Lu, Lingyi ^a   Case, L Douglas ^a   Geiger, Ann M ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer survivors; Employment; Health status; Physical activity; Smoking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SURVIVOR; COLORECTAL CANCER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SELF REPORT; SMOKING; UNEMPLOYMENT; UNITED STATES; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; NEOPLASMS; OBESITY; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVORS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84880326629     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: 15737225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10552-013-0225-x     Document Type: Article

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