The lack of social gradient of health behaviors and psychosocial factors in Northern Italy

Sozial- und Praventivmedizin

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 197-205

  De Vogli, Roberto ^a   Gnesotto, Roberto ^b   Goldstein, Michael ^c   Andersen, Ronald ^c   Cornia, Giovanni Andrea ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Epidemiol Ctr of the Veneto Region   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Health behaviors; Italy; Psychosocial factors; Social class; Socio economic status

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COMPUTER SYSTEM; DIETARY INTAKE; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EMOTION; FEMALE; FRUIT; GENDER; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; ITALY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREDICTION; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TELEPHONE; VEGETABLE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; FRUIT; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STATISTICS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VEGETABLES;

EID: 25844512122     PISSN: 03038408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00038-005-4025-2     Document Type: Article

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