Realising health data linkage from a researcher’s perspective: Following up the 6-day sample of the Scottish mental survey 1947

Longitudinal and Life Course Studies

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 283-298

  Brett, Caroline E ^a   Deary, Ian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ageing; Data linkage; Health; Health outcomes; Intelligence; Life course epidemiology; Scottish Mental Survey; Wellbeing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908378660     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17579597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14301/llcs.v5i3.266     Document Type: Article

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