Religious involvement and healthy lifestyles: Evidence from the survey of texas adults

Annals of Behavioral Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 217-222

  Hill, Terrence D ^a   Ellison, Christopher G ^b   Burdette, Amy M ^c   Musick, Marc A ^b  

^a Department of Biology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ETHNICITY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFESTYLE; LONGEVITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIGION; SCORING SYSTEM; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TEXAS;

EID: 35148866190     PISSN: 08836612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02872676     Document Type: Article

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