The Education-health Nexus: Fact and fiction

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 150, Issue , 2016, Pages 112-116

  Böckerman, Petri ^a   Maczulskij, Terhi ^a  

^a LABOUR INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (Finland)

Author keywords

Co twin control; Education; Finland; Health; Health behavior; Health inputs; Schooling; Twin data

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; EDUCATION; HEALTH CARE;

BODY MASS; EDUCATION; EXERCISE; FAMILY; FEMALE; HIGH SCHOOL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODEL; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; SAMPLE SIZE; TIGHT JUNCTION; UNIVERSITY; VOCATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FINLAND; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMICS; TWINS;

FINLAND;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FINLAND; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TWINS;

EID: 84952308902     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.12.036     Document Type: Article

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