Individual vulnerability and the nurturing state: The case of self-reported health and relative income

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 125-133

  Furnée, Carina A ^a   Pfann, Gerard A ^b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Absolute income hypothesis; Gradient; Meta analysis; Odds ratios; Policy; Relative income hypothesis; Self reported health; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

HEALTH IMPACT; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; META-ANALYSIS; POLICY ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; VULNERABILITY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INCOME; LOGLINEAR MODEL; MALE; NURTURING BEHAVIOR; SELF REPORT;

CANADA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INCOME; INDIVIDUALITY; JAPAN; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; SELF CONCEPT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77953613463     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.03.011     Document Type: Article

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