Social relationships in religious institutions and healthy lifestyles

Health Education and Behavior

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 25-38

  Krause, Neal ^a   Shaw, Benjamin ^b   Liang, Jersey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

church based support; health behaviors

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MALE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; RELIGION; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 79751518394     PISSN: 10901981     EISSN: 15526127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1090198110370281     Document Type: Article

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