Associations between health literacy and preventive health behaviors among older adults: Findings from the health and retirement study

BMC Public Health

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Fernandez, Dena M ^a,b   Larson, Janet L ^b   Zikmund Fisher, Brian J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Health behaviors; Health literacy; Mammography; Perceived control; Perceptions; Physical activity; Preventive health behaviors; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BREAST; CANCER SCREENING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MODEL; ODDS RATIO; PERCEPTION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; RACE; RETIREMENT; TOBACCO USE; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; MIDDLE AGED; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETIREMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84978471939     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-016-3267-7     Document Type: Article

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