Effects of childhood socioeconomic position on subjective health and health behaviours in adulthood: How much is mediated by adult socioeconomic position?

BMC Public Health

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  McKenzie, Sarah K ^a   Carter, Kristie N ^a   Blakely, Tony ^a   Ivory, Vivienne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; CAUSALITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; ODDS RATIO; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 79955141994     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-269     Document Type: Article

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