Healthy Behavior

A Companion to Health and Medical Geography

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 460-476

  Twigg, Liz ^a   Cooper, Lynda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

"healthy behavior" and understanding of patterns of behavior; Developments in public health and understanding of population disease transitions; Diet, exercise, and obesogenic environments; Effects of "social miasma" on health outcomes and "deprivation amplification"; Geography of health related behaviors; Health and Lifestyle Survey (HALS) evidence of a localized geography; Health related behaviors and multilevel modeling development; Mainstream health promotion policy is by passing "hard to reach" or "hard to engage" groups; Relative deprivation, neighborhood stress, social capital and smoking; Significant geographic variations in smoking prevalence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856079900     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444314762.ch24     Document Type: Chapter

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