Contextual effect of different components of social capital on health in a suburban city of the greater Tokyo area: A multilevel analysis

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 75, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2472-2480

  Murayama, Hiroshi ^a   Wakui, Tomoko ^b   Arami, Reiko ^c   Sugawara, Ikuko ^c   Yoshie, Satoru ^c  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Contextual effect; Health; Japan; Multilevel modeling; Social capital; Suburban

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH RISK; MODELING; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SUBURBAN AREA; URBAN SOCIETY;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CONTEXTUAL EFFECT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; JAPAN; JAPANESE; MALE; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; OBESITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE; SELF EVALUATION; SMOKING; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION; SOCIAL STATUS; SUBURBAN AREA; TRUST; UNDERWEIGHT;

ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUBURBAN POPULATION; TOKYO; YOUNG ADULT;

HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO; TOKYO [KANTO]; TOKYO [TOKYO (PRF)];

EID: 84869499392     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.09.027     Document Type: Article

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