Do healthy and unhealthy behaviours cluster in New Zealand?

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 155-163

  Tobias, Martin ^a   Jackson, Gary ^b   Yeh, Li Chia ^a   Huang, Ken ^a  

^a MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (New Zealand)

^b Division of Medicine Emergency and Integrated Care   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Clustering; Health promotion; Lifestyle

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FRUIT; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAORI; NEW ZEALAND; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; VEGETABLE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIET; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FRUIT; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; PREVALENCE; SMOKING; VEGETABLES;

EID: 34247358159     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-6405.2007.00034.x     Document Type: Article

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