Morbidity and Irish Catholic descent in Britain: Relating health disadvantage to behaviour

Ethnicity and Health

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 221-230

  Abbotts, Joanne ^a   Williams, Rory ^b   Ford, Graeme ^b   Hunt, Kate ^b   West, Patrick ^b  

^a MRC SOCIAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Behaviour; Ethnic minorities; Ethnicity; Inequalities; Irish Catholics; Morbidity; Smoking

Indexed keywords

ETHNICITY; HEALTH STATUS; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONSULTATION; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; IRELAND; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MORBIDITY; NORMAL HUMAN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIGIOUS GROUP; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS; SPORT; STEREOTYPY; SYMPTOM; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALCOHOLISM; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; IRELAND; LIFE STYLE; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; SCOTLAND; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS; SPORTS;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0033427516     PISSN: 13557858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13557859998001     Document Type: Article

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