Executive functioning affects health behaviour in older people too
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Executive functioning affects health behaviour in older people too.
Marteau and Hall provide interesting insight into the important links between early life environments, poverty, deleterious health behaviours, and the cognitive abilities used to control such behaviours—the “executive functions.” They suggest that associations between early life exposure to poverty and subsequent reductions in executive functions contribute to health inequalities. They also ack...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1756-1833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.f7440