Social support and health among elderly kuwaitis.
Summary The aim of this study was to examine differences in several aspects of health between Kuwaiti men and women aged 60 years and over across three age categories (60-69, 70-79, 80+ years). The relationships between several social support variables, somatic symptoms and systolic and diastolic bl...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Biosocial Science Vol. 46; no. 4; pp. 518 - 531 |
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Cambridge University Press
Jul2014
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