Public Health
Volume 124, Issue 9 , Pages 512-518 , September 2010

Gender differences in adolescent health-related behaviour diminished between 1998 and 2006

  • L. Pitel

      Affiliations

    • Kosice Institute for Society and Health – Graduate School & Health Psychology Unit, Public Health Institute, Medical Faculty, PJ Safarik University Kosice, Trieda SNP, 040 01 Kosice, Slovakia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +421 55 234 3393.
    • ,
  • A. Madarasova Geckova

      Affiliations

    • Kosice Institute for Society and Health – Graduate School & Health Psychology Unit, Public Health Institute, Medical Faculty, PJ Safarik University Kosice, Trieda SNP, 040 01 Kosice, Slovakia
    • ,
  • J.P. van Dijk

      Affiliations

    • Kosice Institute for Society and Health – Graduate School & Health Psychology Unit, Public Health Institute, Medical Faculty, PJ Safarik University Kosice, Trieda SNP, 040 01 Kosice, Slovakia
    • Department of Social Medicine, University Medical Centre Groningen, Groningen, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
    • ,
  • S.A. Reijneveld

      Affiliations

    • Department of Social Medicine, University Medical Centre Groningen, Groningen, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Received 18 August 2009 ,Revised 31 March 2010 ,Accepted 13 May 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2010.05.005

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