Health risk aversion, health risk affinity, and socio-economic position in the USA: The demographics of multiple risk

Health, Risk and Society

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 295-314

  Hahn, Robert ^a   Vesely, Sara ^b   Chang, Man Huei ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Class; Ethnicity; Gender; Health; Risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 85047680054     PISSN: 13698575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/713670164     Document Type: Article

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