Does social capital affect the incidence of functional disability in older Japanese? A prospective population-based cohort study

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 42-47

  Aida, Jun ^a,b   Kondo, Katsunori ^c   Kawachi, Ichiro ^d   Subramanian, S V ^d   Ichida, Yukinobu ^c   Hirai, Hiroshi ^c,e   Kondo, Naoki ^f   Osaka, Ken ^a   Sheiham, Aubrey ^b   Tsakos, Georgios ^b   Watt, Richard G ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c NIHON FUKUSHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e IWATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING POPULATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISABILITY; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SURVEY; WOMENS HEALTH;

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ASIAN; COGNITION; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MALE; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SURVIVAL; TRUST;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGING; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; COGNITION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; JAPAN; MALE; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRUST;

JAPAN;

EID: 84872002246     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech-2011-200307     Document Type: Article

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