Financial hardship, socio-economic position and depression: Results from the PATH Through Life Survey

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 229-237

  Butterworth, Peter ^a   Rodgers, Bryan ^a   Windsor, Tim D ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Cohort; Depression; Financial hardship; Mental health; Psychiatric epidemiology

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FINANCIAL CRISIS; MENTAL HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FINANCE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PREDICTION; RELIABILITY; SOCIAL STATUS; TIME;

ADULT; AGED; AUSTRALIA; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; POVERTY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIAL CLASS; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY; CANBERRA;

EID: 67649321446     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.05.008     Document Type: Article

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