Location, location, location: Contextual and compositional health effects of social capital in British Columbia, Canada

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2059-2071

  Veenstra, Gerry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Long term limiting illness; Multilevel modelling; Place; Self rated health; Social capital

Indexed keywords

HEALTH IMPACT; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; MODELING; RESIDENTIAL LOCATION; SELF ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL CAPITAL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INCOME; MALE; POLITICS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WELLBEING;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 14644443609     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.08.064     Document Type: Article

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