Social support, social selection and self-assessed health status: Results from the veterans health study in the United States

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1721-1734

  Ren, Xinhua S ^a,b   Skinner, Katherine ^a,b   Lee, Austin ^a,c   Kazis, Lewis ^a,b  

^a Center for Health Quality   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Self assessed health; Social support; Stress; Trauma exposure; Veterans

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PHYSICAL STRESS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; SELF EVALUATION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOLDIER; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNITED STATES; VETERANS;

EID: 0033002957     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(99)00069-6     Document Type: Article

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