Measuring social networks for medical research in lower-income settings

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Kelly, Laura ^a   Patel, Shivani A ^b   Venkat Narayan, K M ^b   Prabhakaran, Dorairaj ^c,d   Cunningham, Solveig A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Center for Chronic Disease Control ^*  (India)

^d PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION OF INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIA; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NON COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF ESTEEM; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; YOUNG ADULT; FAMILY SIZE; POVERTY; SOCIAL PROBLEM;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; HUMANS; INDIA; POVERTY; SOCIAL NETWORKING; SOCIAL PROBLEMS;

EID: 84919923890     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0105161     Document Type: Article

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