Health and Ways of Living: The Alameda County Study"A classic ... required reading for every student in medicine and public health."* "This monograph, which describes in detail the methodology and the findings of a major longitudinal population health study, represents a significant contribution to the social epidemiology of health and illness. The authors document the impact of health habits and social relationships on health outcomes, issues at the forefront of public health in the United States." --*Leon Eisenberg, Harvard Medical School |
Contents
Introduction and background | 3 |
Health practices and mortality risk | 61 |
Social networks and mortality risk | 113 |
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adjusted health scores Age-adjusted mortality rates Alameda County alcohol consumption analysis anomy associated with mortality behaviors Belloc Berkman Breslow cancer causes per 100 changes Chapter chronic conditions cigarette smoking coronary heart disease death rates disability effects Epidemiol epidemiologic examined F-Ratio follow-up friends and relatives gradient health habits Health Practices Index health practices score health status score High N high-risk health practices Human Population Laboratory indices individual ischemic heart disease low-risk health practices marital status married measure morbidity mortality risk multiple logistic myocardial infarction obesity overweight panel pellagra percent persons physical activity Physical Health Spectrum physical health status practices and social Public Health questionnaire relationship relative risks reported residual health scores response risk factors sample social class social contacts Social Network Index socioeconomic status stress survey Sydenstricker Table tion Total tuberculosis urban variables women ages World Health Organization