Next steps in understanding the multilevel determinants of health

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 62, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 957-959

  Diez Roux, A V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH STATUS; MODELING; NEIGHBORHOOD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DYNAMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POPULATION SIZE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CAUSALITY; HEALTH; HUMANS; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 54349094333     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2007.064311     Document Type: Article

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