Comparison of health behaviors among single- and multiple-member households

American Journal of Health Behavior

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 514-525

  Bae, Sejong ^a,b   Urrutia Rojas, Ximena ^a   Patel, Dimple ^a   Migala, Witold M ^c   Rivers, Patrick A ^d   Singh, Karan P ^b  

^a Department of Biostatistics ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^c City of Fort Worth Public Health Department   (United States)

^d SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Health behaviors; Local profile; Need assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548558778     PISSN: 10873244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5993/AJHB.31.5.7     Document Type: Article

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