Our health is a function of where we live

The Lancet

Volumn 387, Issue 10034, 2016, Pages 2168-2170

  Goenka, Shifalika ^a,b   Andersen, Lars Bo ^c  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION OF INDIA   (India)

^b Centre for Chronic Disease Control   (India)

^c WESTERN NORWAY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST CANCER; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COLON CANCER; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HEALTH; HUMAN; MORTALITY; NON COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; NOTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PASSIVE TRANSPORT; PEDESTRIAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL INACTIVITY; POPULATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; URBAN AREA; WALKING; CITY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CITIES; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 84961875110     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)00348-2     Document Type: Note

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