Neighborhood Disadvantage and Self-Assessed Health, Disability, and Depressive Symptoms: Longitudinal Results From the Health and Retirement Study

Annals of Epidemiology

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 856-861

  Glymour, Maria M ^a   Mujahid, Mahasin ^b   Wu, Qiong ^c   White, Kellee ^a   Tchetgen Tchetgen, Eric J ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c HARVARD CENTER FOR POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Activities of daily living; Depressive symptoms; Inverse probability weights; Longitudinal survey; Marginal structural models; Neighborhoods; Self rated health

Indexed keywords

ADL DISABILITY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETIREMENT; SELF EVALUATION; SELF REPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SURVIVAL; SYMPTOM;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DEPRESSION; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; POVERTY; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK; SELF-ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77957670985     PISSN: 10472797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2010.08.003     Document Type: Article

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