Religious involvement and U.S. adult mortality

Demography

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 273-285

  Hummer, Robert A ^a   Rogers, Richard G ^b   Nam, Charles B ^c   Ellison, Christopher G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c University of Texas ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RELIGION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RELIGION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033125722     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2648114     Document Type: Article

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