Coping Strategies of Older Rural Bangladeshi Women With Health Problems

Health Care for Women International

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1116-1135

  Hossen, Md Abul ^a   Westhues, Anne ^b   Maiter, Sarah ^c  

^a JAGANNATH UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

^b WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGING; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CHRONIC DISEASE; EMOTION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RURAL POPULATION; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VERY ELDERLY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BANGLADESH; CHRONIC DISEASE; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RURAL POPULATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84887990130     PISSN: 07399332     EISSN: 10964665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07399332.2013.817410     Document Type: Article

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