Association of Socioeconomic Position With Health Behaviors and Mortality
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Association of socioeconomic position with health behaviors and mortality.
CONTEXT Previous studies may have underestimated the contribution of health behaviors to social inequalities in mortality because health behaviors were assessed only at the baseline of the study. OBJECTIVE To examine the role of health behaviors in the association between socioeconomic position and mortality and compare whether their contribution differs when assessed at only 1 point in time ...
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عنوان ژورنال: JAMA
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0098-7484
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2010.297