Social networks, host resistance, and mortality: A nine-year follow-up study of alameda county residents

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 1979, Pages 186-204

  Berkman, Lisa F ^a   Syme, S Leonard ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Health surveys; Marriage; Mortality; Smoking; Social class; Social Isolation

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; FOLLOW UP; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MORTALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SHORT SURVEY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; CALIFORNIA; EXERTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGE; MORTALITY; OBESITY; SMOKING; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0018602221     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a112674     Document Type: Article

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