Social capital, trust in the health-care system and self-rated health: The role of access to health care in a population-based study

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1373-1383

  Mohseni, Mohabbat ^a   Lindstrom, Martin ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Access to health care; Care seeking behaviour; Horizontal trust; Institutional trust; Self rated health; Social capital; Sweden

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDINAL SURVEY; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICES; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL CAPITAL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SWEDEN; TRUST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SELF DISCLOSURE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATE MEDICINE; SWEDEN; TRUST;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SKANE; SWEDEN;

EID: 33847382357     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2006.11.023     Document Type: Article

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