Do the determinants of health differ between people living in the community and in institutions?

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 345-353

  Asakawa, Keiko ^a   Feeny, David ^b,c,d   Senthilselvan, Ambikaipakan ^c   Johnson, Jeffrey A ^c   Rolfson, Darryl ^c  

^a CANADIAN AGENCY FOR DRUGS AND TECHNOLOGIES IN HEALTH   (Canada)

^b KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d Health Utilities Incorporated   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Determinants of health; Health Utilities Index; Long term care institutions

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; HEALTH RISK; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HETEROGENEITY; INDEX METHOD; LIVING STANDARD; PUBLIC HEALTH; RACE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

AGE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CANADA; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMMUNITY LIVING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; INSTITUTIONAL CARE; LONG TERM CARE; MARRIAGE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH STATUS INDICATOR; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; MALE; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CANADA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROBABILITY; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 67650742051     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.05.007     Document Type: Article

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