Changes in the use practitioner-based complementary and alternative medicine over time in Canada: Cohort and period effects

PLoS ONE

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2017, Pages

  Canizares, Mayilee ^a,b   Hogg Johnson, Sheilah ^c,d   Gignac, Monique A M ^b,c,d   Glazier, Richard H ^a,c,e,f   Badley, Elizabeth M ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d INSTITUTE FOR WORK AND HEALTH   (Canada)

^e INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^f ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALLOPATHY; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CANADA; CHIROPRACTIC; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HOMEOPATHY; HUMAN; INCOME; LIFE SUSTAINING TREATMENT; MALE; MASSAGE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PAIN; PERIODICITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME FACTOR; UTILIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; CANADA; CHIROPRACTIC; COHORT STUDIES; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85019099123     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0177307     Document Type: Article

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