The association between unhealthy behaviours and socioeconomic status differs between countries

Wednesday, February 23, 2011 - 15:00 in Psychology & Sociology

According to a study by Silvia Stringhini and colleagues from INSERM, (U1018 Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health) and University College London, (Department of Epidemiology and Public Health), published in this week's PLoS Medicine, although socioeconomic status and health behaviours are strong predictors of mortality, there are major differences in the social patterning of unhealthy behaviours in different countries...

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