To flourish or not: Positive mental health and all-cause mortality

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 102, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2164-2172

  Keyes, Corey L M ^a   Simoes, Eduardo J ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RACE; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84867509164     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2012.300918     Document Type: Article

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