The study presented here examined how 218 elderly rural women defined
and sought to maintain their health and examined the extent to which
social networks, age, endurance, adaptation, and proactivity are related
to health. It found that the respondents viewed health as the absence of
illness and considered giving and productivity essential to their health.
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