Country- and individual-level socioeconomic determinants of depression: Multilevel cross-national comparison

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 202, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 195-203

  Rai, Dheeraj ^a   Zitko, Pedro ^a,b   Jones, Kelvyn ^a   Lynch, John ^a,c   Araya, Ricardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Ministerio de Salud de Chile   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPRESSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INCOME; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WORLD HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84874822012     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: 14721465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.112.112482     Document Type: Review

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