1st Edition

Health and Lifestyles

By Mildred Blaxter Copyright 1990
280 Pages
by Routledge

280 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

What is a `healthy' lifestyle? Which is more significant: the social circumstances in which people live, or lifestyle habits such as exercise or smoking? Health and Lifestyles is the first description of a large and representative survey of the British population asking just those questions. It examines the findings, and considers issues such as measured fitness, declared health, psychological... Read more
1. Introduction 2. The health and lifestyle survey 3. What is health? 4. The measurement of health 5. Social circumstances and health 6. Patterns of behaviour 7. Attitudes and behaviour 8. Behaviour and health 9. Circumstances behaviour and health 10. Conclusions and policy implications Appendix

Biography

Mildred Blaxter