Social capital and neighborhood mortality rates in Chicago

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1797-1805

  Lochner, Kimberly A ^a,c   Kawachi, Ichiro ^a   Brennan, Robert T ^b   Buka, Stephen L ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Multilevel models; Neighborhood effects; Social capital; United States

Indexed keywords

MORTALITY; NEIGHBORHOOD; RACE; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMMUNITY; COMMUNITY CARE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEATH; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POVERTY; RACE; SOCIAL ASPECT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STUDY; UNITED STATES;

CAUSE OF DEATH; CHICAGO; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POVERTY AREAS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TRUST; URBAN HEALTH; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037375185     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(02)00177-6     Document Type: Article

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