Comparison of lifestyle and health among Danish nurses and the Danish female population: Is it possible to generalize findings from nurses to the general female population?

Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 361-367

  Friis, Karina ^a   Ekholm, Ola ^a   Hundrup, Yrsa A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Aalcohol intake; Body mass index; Cohort study; Denmark; Nurses; Physical activity; Self reported health; Smoking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CALCULATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DENMARK; FEMALE; FITNESS; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFESTYLE; NORMAL HUMAN; NURSE; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POPULATION MODEL; SELF REPORT; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; RISK; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DENMARK; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; NURSES; OVERWEIGHT; RISK; SMOKING;

EID: 33644878624     PISSN: 02839318     EISSN: 14716712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-6712.2005.00366.x     Document Type: Article

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