Cohort profile: West of Scotland twenty-07 study: Health in the community

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1215-1223

  Benzeval, Michaela ^a   Der, Geoff ^a   Ellaway, Anne ^a   Hunt, Kate ^a   Sweeting, Helen ^a   West, Patrick ^a   Macintyre, Sally ^a  

^a MRC SOCIAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH;

AGE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; ETHNICITY; FAMILY LIFE; FOLLOW UP; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLICATION; RESEARCH SUBJECT; SAMPLING; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SCOTLAND; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 70349869655     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyn213     Document Type: Article

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