Associations of grandparental schooling with adult grandchildren's health status, smoking, and obesity

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 180, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 469-481

  Lê Scherban, Félice ^a,b   Roux, Ana V Diez ^b   Li, Yun ^b   Morgenstern, Hal ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Education; Grandparents; Health status; Marginal structural models; Multigenerational study; Obesity; Race; Smoking

Indexed keywords

AGE CLASS; CHILD HEALTH; EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; ELDERLY POPULATION; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH STATUS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBESITY; RACE; SMOKING; ADULT; HEALTH RISK; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ADULTHOOD; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; EDUCATION; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FAMILY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GRANDCHILD; GRANDPARENT; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; SCHOOL; SMOKING; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES; BLACK PERSON; FAMILY STUDY; INCOME; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIGENERATIONAL STUDY; RACE DIFFERENCE;

UNITED STATES;

EDUCATION; GRANDPARENTS; HEALTH STATUS; MARGINAL STRUCTURAL MODELS; MULTIGENERATIONAL STUDY; OBESITY; RACE; SMOKING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; SMOKING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84907361852     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwu154     Document Type: Article

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