To what extent does IQ 'explain' socio-economic variations in function?

BMC Public Health

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Bosma, Hans ^a   Van Boxtel, Martin P J ^a   Kempen, Gertrudis I J M ^a   Van Eijk, Jacques Th M ^a   Jolles, Jelle ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; INFORMATION; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LIFE; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; NETHERLANDS; OCCUPATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGISTRATION; SELF CONCEPT; SELF REPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; WORK; CLASSIFICATION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; ECONOMICS; INTELLIGENCE TEST; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOLOGY; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COGNITION DISORDERS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; OCCUPATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL;

EID: 34548536309     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-7-179     Document Type: Article

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