Healthy lifestyle choices: Could sense of coherence aid health promotion?

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 61, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 871-876

  Wainwright, Nicholas W J ^a   Surtees, Paul G ^a   Welch, Ailsa A ^a   Luben, Robert N ^a   Khaw, Kay Tee ^b   Bingham, Sheila A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; DIET; HEALTH IMPACT; LIFESTYLE; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; RESOURCE USE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; MALE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIET; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORFOLK [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34848895992     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2006.056275     Document Type: Article

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