Indicators of socioeconomic status for adolescents: The WHO health behaviour in school-aged children survey

Health Education Research

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 385-397

  Currie, Candace E ^a   Elton, Rob A ^b   Todd, Joanna ^a   Platt, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CAR; FATHER; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HOUSING; HUMAN; MONEY; OCCUPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL STATUS; TELEPHONE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; DATA COLLECTION; FATHERS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; SCOTLAND; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0030879426     PISSN: 02681153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/her/12.3.385     Document Type: Article

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