Cohort profile update: Australian longitudinal study on women's health

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1547-

  Dobson, Annette J ^a   Hockey, Richard ^a   Brown, Wendy J ^a   Byles, Julie E ^b   Loxton, Deborah J ^b   McLaughlin, Deirdre ^a   Tooth, Leigh R ^a   Mishra, Gita D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australian women; cohort retention; linked records

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICES; WOMENS HEALTH;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CANCER REGISTRY; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; URBAN AREA; WELLBEING; WOMEN'S HEALTH; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; MIDDLE AGED; RURAL POPULATION; SELF REPORT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; URBAN POPULATION; UTILIZATION; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

AUSTRALIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; RURAL POPULATION; SELF REPORT; URBAN POPULATION; WOMEN'S HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84944808543     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyv110     Document Type: Article

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