Income inequality, social capital and self-rated health and dental status in older Japanese

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1561-1568

  Aida, Jun ^a,b   Kondo, Katsunori ^c   Kondo, Naoki ^d   Watt, Richard G ^a   Sheiham, Aubrey ^a   Tsakos, Georgios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NIHON FUKUSHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dental status; Income inequality; Japan; Multilevel analysis; Older adults; Self rated health; Social capital

Indexed keywords

DENTAL HEALTH; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH STATUS; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; SOCIAL CAPITAL;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTAL HEALTH; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCOME; JAPAN; JAPANESE; MALE; MARRIAGE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SOCIAL STATUS; TRUST; VOLUNTEER;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INCOME; JAPAN; MALE; ODDS RATIO; ORAL HEALTH; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

JAPAN;

EID: 80955130775     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.09.005     Document Type: Article

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