Does where you live predict health related behaviours?: a case study in Glasgow.

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Published in Health Bull (Edinb) on November 01, 1996

Authors

A Ellaway1, S Macintyre

Author Affiliations

1: MRC Medical Sociology Unit, Glasgow.

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