Health literacy and ethnic disparities in health-related quality of life among rural women: Results from a Chinese poor minority area

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Wang, Cuili ^a   Li, Hui ^a   Li, Lingui ^b   Xu, Dongjuan ^a,c   Kane, Robert L ^c   Meng, Qingyue ^a,d  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NINGXIA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; EQ 5D; Equity; Health literacy; Health related quality of life; Race ethnicity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHINESE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PAIN; QUALITY OF LIFE; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL ASPECT;

ADULT; CHINA; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84883607526     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-11-153     Document Type: Article

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