Social Integration and Mortality: A Prospective Study of French Employees of Electricity of France-Gas of France: The GAZEL Cohort

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 159, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 167-174

  Berkman, Lisa F ^a   Melchior, Maria ^b   Chastang, Jean François ^b   Niedhammer, Isabelle ^b   Leclerc, Annette ^b   Goldberg, Marcel ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Interpersonal relations; Mortality; Social environment; Social isolation; Social support

Indexed keywords

CAUSE OF DEATH; ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY; HEALTH RISK; MORTALITY; OCCUPATION; RISK FACTOR;

ACCIDENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CANCER MORTALITY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRANCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH STATUS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OCCUPATION; OFFICE WORKER; PREDICTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING HABIT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUICIDE; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 0347724066     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwh020     Document Type: Article

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