TITLE

For doctors, silence is not golden

PUB. DATE
May 1996
SOURCE
Trustee;May96, Vol. 49 Issue 5, p5
SOURCE TYPE
Trade Publication
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
Reports on the findings of a study by the Center for Health Policy Research at the University of California in Los Angeles and commissioned by the Commonwealth Fund in New York City on the health condition of women. Factors that affect women's health care; Health habits; Significance of the findings in the `1991 National Health Survey' on woman's health care.
ACCESSION #
9606041289

Tags: WOMEN -- Health;  HEALTH surveys -- United States

 

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