Educational inequalities in risky health behaviours in 21 European countries: Findings from the European social survey (2014) special module on the social determinants of health

European Journal of Public Health

Volumn 27, Issue , 2017, Pages 63-72

  Huijts, Tim ^a   Gkiouleka, Anna ^a   Reibling, Nadine ^b   Thomson, Katie H ^c   Eikemo, Terje A ^d   Bambra, Clare ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTH RISK BEHAVIORS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 85033484182     PISSN: 11011262     EISSN: 1464360X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckw220     Document Type: Review

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