Understanding community context and adult health changes in China: Development of an urbanicity scale

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1436-1446

  Jones Smith, Jessica C ^a   Popkin, Barry M ^a  

^a University of North Carolina   (United States)

Author keywords

BMI; China; China health and nutrition survey; Methodology; Obesity; Overweight; Urban rural; Urbanicity scale

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH SERVICES; MODEL TEST; MODEL VALIDATION; OBESITY; POPULATION DENSITY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RESEARCH WORK; RURAL AREA; URBAN AREA; URBAN SOCIETY;

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; COMMUNITY; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTENT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITERION RELATED VALIDITY; HEALTH STATUS; INCIDENCE; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; OBESITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL WELFARE; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; URBAN POPULATION; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; URBANIZATION; ADULT; DEMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; OVERWEIGHT; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; CHINA; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; OVERWEIGHT; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBANIZATION;

CHINA;

EID: 77956649787     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.07.027     Document Type: Article

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