Urban small area variation in adolescents' health behaviour

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1089-1098

  Karvonen, Sakari ^a   Rimpelä, Arja H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Gender; Health behaviours; Small areas

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; FAT INTAKE; FEMALE; FINLAND; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HOUSING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFESTYLE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNEMPLOYMENT; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; FINLAND; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; LOGISTIC MODELS; SMALL-AREA ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0030789452     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(97)00036-1     Document Type: Article

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