Health-related behavior as a mechanism behind the relationship between neighborhood social capital and individual health - A multilevel analysis

BMC Public Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Mohnen, Sigrid M ^a   Völker, Beate ^a   Flap, Henk ^a   Groenewegen, Peter P ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; NETHERLANDS; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; NETHERLANDS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SMALL-AREA ANALYSIS; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84856780077     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-116     Document Type: Article

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