Why do poor people behave poorly? Variation in adult health behaviours and psychosocial characteristics by stages of the socioeconomic lifecourse

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 809-819

  Lynch, J W ^a   Kaplan, G A ^b   Salonen, J T ^c  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Health behaviour; Lifecourse; Psychosocial factors; Socioeconomic status

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT; FINLAND; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INCOME; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POVERTY; SOCIAL STATUS;

EID: 0030891128     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(96)00191-8     Document Type: Article

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