Commentary: 'Culture', cultural explanations and causality

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 261-263

  Janes, Craig R ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CULTURAL FACTOR; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IDEOLOGY; INCIDENCE; INDIVIDUALITY; MENTAL DISEASE; MORALITY; NOTE; PATHOGENICITY; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL BELIEF; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL LIFE;

CAUSALITY; CULTURE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; SOCIAL VALUES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 33645832349     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyi238     Document Type: Note

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