Clustering of lifestyle risk behaviours among residents of forty deprived neighbourhoods in London: lessons for targeting public health interventions
Author(s) -
Paul Watts,
David Buck,
Gopalakrishnan Netuveli,
Adrian Renton
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.916
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1741-3850
pISSN - 1741-3842
DOI - 10.1093/pubmed/fdv028
Subject(s) - public health , psychological intervention , environmental health , medicine , cluster analysis , public health interventions , gerontology , epidemiology , nursing , computer science , pathology , machine learning
Clustering of lifestyle risk behaviours is very important in predicting premature mortality. Understanding the extent to which risk behaviours are clustered in deprived communities is vital to most effectively target public health interventions.
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