Distrust, social fragmentation and adolescents' health in the outer city: Beirut and beyond

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1304-1315

  Khawaja, Marwan ^a,b   Abdulrahim, Sawsan ^b   Soweid, Rima A Afifi ^b   Karam, Dima ^a  

^a Center for Research on Population and Health   (Lebanon)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Lebanon; Place; Social capital; Urban health

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; HEALTH STATUS; LOGISTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SUBURBAN AREA;

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CITY; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENDER; GEOGRAPHY; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH STATUS; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INCOME; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; LEBANON; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; PALESTINE; PARAMETERS OF MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; POVERTY; REFUGEE; RELATIVE; RESIDENTIAL HOME; RISK; SAMPLE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIOLOGY; STATISTICS; TRUST;

ADOLESCENT; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LEBANON; MALE; POVERTY AREAS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUBURBAN POPULATION; TRUST;

ASIA; BEIRUT; BEYROUTH; EURASIA; LEBANON; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 33745934021     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2006.03.047     Document Type: Article

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