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We use micro-data to investigate the relationship between unemployment and mortality in the United States using Logistic regression on a sample of over 16,000 individuals. We consider baselines from 1984 to 1993 and investigate mortality up to ten years from the baseline. We show that poor local...
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lifestyle factors and negative life events associated with victimisation, or the factors associated with self harm among boys … who experience bullying. The objectives of the study were to examine the prevalence of bullying in Irish adolescent boys …, the association between bullying and a broad range of risk factors among boys, and factors associated with self harm among …
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pre-adolescent boys (in relation to girls) are diagnosed as mentally ill. In response, academic, professional and … understandings of men and masculinities to the attitudes and behaviours of pre-adolescent boys. As a consequence, explanations of … boys’ behaviours and suggests that researchers in the field of gender and suicide consider how boys’ genders may be …
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childhood overweight. In adolescence, African-American girls experience earlier menarche. Understanding the origins of these … Youth Child–Mother file, consisted of 2337 girls born between 1978 and 1998. Mean age of menarche in months was 144 for … African-American girls and 150 for whites. …
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–15 years; 49.4% boys) completed a survey measuring socio-demographic and psychosocial factors and wore an accelerometer for …
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Shifts in time and income constraints over economic expansions and contractions would be expected to affect individuals' behaviors. We explore the impact of the business cycle on individuals' exercise, time use, and total physical exertion, utilizing information on 112,000 individual records...
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We investigated whether ethnic and country of birth differences in adult Body Mass Index (BMI) were associated with differences in diet, physical activity and ethnic density (the percentage of an ethnic group within the neighbourhood environment).
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In recent decades, the prevalence of physical activity has declined considerably in many developed countries, which has been related to rising levels of obesity and several weight-related medical conditions, such as coronary heart disease. There is evidence that areas exhibiting particularly low...
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Walking, both for leisure and for travel/errands, counts toward meeting physical activity recommendations. Both social and physical neighborhood environmental features may encourage or inhibit walking. This study examined social capital, perceived safety, and disorder in relation to walking...
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Ecological models state that physical activity (PA) behaviors can be explained by the interplay between individuals and their surrounding physical and social environment. However, the majority of research on PA-environment relationships has focused upon the physical environment. The purpose of...
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