Small area variations in health related behaviours; do these depend on the behaviour itself, its measurement, or on personal characteristics?

Health and Place

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 261-274

  Ecob, Russell ^a   MacIntyre, Sally ^a  

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

Author keywords

Area deprivation; Area effects; Deprivation; Health related behaviours; Multilevel models; Scotland

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; HEALTH STATUS; LIFESTYLE; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; DIETARY INTAKE; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED KINGDOM;

SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0034579072     PISSN: 13538292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1353-8292(00)00008-3     Document Type: Article

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