Relation of employment status to socioeconomic position and physical activity types

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 182-188

  Popham, Frank ^a   Mitchell, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Employment status; Physical activity; Socioeconomic factors

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTING; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMPLOYMENT; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SCOTLAND; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 34548312527     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2007.06.012     Document Type: Article

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