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Health-protective behaviors of rural black elderly women
1School of Social Work, Arizona State University, Tempe 85287.
Health & Social Work
|February 1, 1992
Abstract:
This article introduces the concept of health-protective behavior and examines the practices and attitudes that shape health care behaviors among rural black elderly women. Data for this study were collected from a sample of 407 black elderly women (ages 60 to 98) who resided in a rural community in North Carolina. Personal interviews collected information on personal health care practices, health self-perception, health beliefs.