Effect of specific aspects of community social environment on the mortality of individuals diagnosed with serious illness

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1119-1134

  Wen, Ming ^a   Cagney, Kathleen A ^b   Christakis, Nicholas A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Collective efficacy; Crime; Mortality; Neighborhood community; SES; Social network density

Indexed keywords

HEALTH IMPACT; MORTALITY; SOCIAL NETWORK;

AGED; AGING; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMMUNITY CARE; CRIME; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBAN POPULATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; CHICAGO; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

CHICAGO; ILLINOIS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 20644471340     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2005.01.026     Document Type: Article

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