Neighborhood environment and health status and mortality among veterans

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 862-867

  Nelson, Karin ^a,b   Taylor, Leslie ^a   Lurie, Nicole ^c   Escarce, José ^d   McFarland, Lynne ^b   Fihn, Stephan D ^a,b  

^a VA PUGET SOUND HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c U S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

^d RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

health status; neighborhood; veterans

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MENTAL COMPONENT SCALE; MENTAL HEALTH INDEX; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); PHYSICAL COMPONENT SCALE; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMOKING; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SURVIVAL; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; VETERAN; VETERANS HEALTH;

AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; VETERANS;

EID: 80051550092     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-011-1710-0     Document Type: Article

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