Neighborhood characteristics and depressive symptoms of older people: Local spatial analyses

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 75, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2307-2316

  Cromley, Ellen K ^a   Wilson Genderson, Maureen ^b   Pruchno, Rachel A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UMDNJ School of Osteopathic Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Area contextual factors; Clustering; Depressive symptoms; Geographically weighted regression; New Jersey; Older people; Spatial variation; United States

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CRIME; ELDERLY POPULATION; MENTAL HEALTH; NEIGHBORHOOD; POVERTY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; SYMPTOM;

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY LIVING; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LOCAL SPATIAL ANALYSIS; MALE; POVERTY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

AGED; CRIME; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW JERSEY; POVERTY AREAS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

NEW JERSEY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84869496375     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.08.033     Document Type: Article

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