The role of health behaviours across the life course in the socioeconomic patterning of all-cause mortality: The west of Scotland twenty-07 prospective cohort study

Annals of Behavioral Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 148-157

  Whitley, Elise ^a   Batty, G David ^b,c   Hunt, Kate ^a   Popham, Frank ^a   Benzeval, Michaela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cohort; Health behaviours; Mortality; Socioeconomic status

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIET; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; COHORT STUDIES; DIET; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SCOTLAND; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84898426774     PISSN: 08836612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12160-013-9539-x     Document Type: Article

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