Women's Health Issues
Volume 16, Issue 6 , Pages 286-296 , November 2006

Disability and receipt of clinical preventive services among women

  • Wenhui Wei, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
    • HSR&D Center for Health Care Knowledge and Management, VA New Jersey Health Care System, East Orange, New Jersey
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Wenhui Wei, PhD, 23 Ewing Drive, Piscataway, NJ 08854.
    • ,
  • Patricia A. Findley, DrPH, MSW, LCSW

      Affiliations

    • HSR&D Center for Health Care Knowledge and Management, VA New Jersey Health Care System, East Orange, New Jersey
    • School of Social Work, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
    • ,
  • Usha Sambamoorthi, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
    • HSR&D Center for Health Care Knowledge and Management, VA New Jersey Health Care System, East Orange, New Jersey
    • Division of Health Systems and Policy, School of Public Health, University of Dentistry and Medicine of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey

Received 8 September 2005 ,Revised 7 September 2006 ,Accepted 8 September 2006.

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doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2006.09.002

Women's Health Issues
Volume 16, Issue 6 , Pages 286-296 , November 2006

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