This study explores social and economic influences on health within a model formulated to address explicitly both individual and household level phenomena. Dressler's lifestyle incongruity model is used as a basis from which to predict the effects of intracultural contexts of variability on blood pr
Social status, social context, and arterial blood pressure
โ Scribed by Dressler, William W.; Bindon, James R.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 99 KB
- Volume
- 102
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0002-9483
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โฆ Synopsis
As social change and economic development have proceeded, the prevalence of chronic diseases, especially cardiovascular diseases, has increased in the developing world. In part this is due to the adoption of diets
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