Reliability of self-reported behavioural health risk factors in a South Australian telephone survey

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 528-530

  Starr, Gary J ^a   Dal Grande, Eleonora ^b   Taylor, Anne W ^b   Wilson, David H ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DEMOGRAPHY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MORBIDITY; NORMAL HUMAN; SELF REPORT; SMOKING HABIT; TELEPHONE;

EID: 0032882243     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-842X.1999.tb01311.x     Document Type: Article

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