Neighbourhood effects on health: Does it matter where you draw the boundaries?

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1241-1255

  Flowerdew, Robin ^a   Manley, David J ^a   Sabel, Clive E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Context and composition; Modifiable areal unit problem; Neighbourhood; UK; Zone design

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; NEIGHBORHOOD; POPULATION SIZE; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY LIVING; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NEIGHBORHOOD; POPULATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; UNITED KINGDOM;

CENSUSES; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SMALL-AREA ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 38949127211     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.11.042     Document Type: Article

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