Cohort profile: The China health and retirement longitudinal study (CHARLS)

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 61-68

  Zhao, Yaohui ^a   Hu, Yisong ^a   Smith, James P ^b   Strauss, John ^c   Yang, Gonghuan ^d  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BLOOD; COHORT ANALYSIS; HEALTH SURVEY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION STRUCTURE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGING; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHINA; COGNITION; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EPISODIC MEMORY; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; MENTAL HEALTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETIREMENT; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; WELLBEING; AGED; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; FITNESS; HEALTH SURVEY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PHYSIOLOGY; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

CHINA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CHINA; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PHYSICAL FITNESS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RETIREMENT; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84896884238     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dys203     Document Type: Article

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