Do social comparisons explain the association between income inequality and health?: Relative deprivation and perceived health among male and female Japanese individuals

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 982-987

  Kondo, Naoki ^a,b   Kawachi, Ichiro ^a   Subramanian, S V ^a   Takeda, Yasuhisa ^c   Yamagata, Zentaro ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^c Japan Ministry of Health Labour and Welfare   (Japan)

Author keywords

Income inequality; Japan; Pathways; Psychosocial deprivation; Relative deprivation

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESTIMATION METHOD; HEALTH CARE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; SOCIAL STATUS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; JAPAN; JAPANESE; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RISK; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL STATUS;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PSYCHOSOCIAL DEPRIVATION; SOCIAL CLASS;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 48349090278     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.06.002     Document Type: Article

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