Place effects on health: How can we conceptualise, operationalise and measure them?

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 125-139

  Macintyre, Sally ^a   Ellaway, Anne ^a   Cummins, Steven ^a  

^a MRC SOCIAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Area effects; Collective social functioning; Compositional explanations; Contextual explanations; Place; Universal human needs

Indexed keywords

MEASUREMENT METHOD; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY;

CONFERENCE PAPER; ECOLOGY; HEALTH CARE; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INDUSTRIALIZATION; MEASUREMENT;

CAUSALITY; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL;

EID: 0036277856     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(01)00214-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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