Individual-level social capital and self-rated health in Japan: An application of the Resource Generator

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 85, Issue , 2013, Pages 32-37

  Kobayashi, Tomoko ^a   Kawachi, Ichiro ^b   Iwase, Toshihide ^a   Suzuki, Etsuji ^a   Takao, Soshi ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Japan; Network based social capital; Resource Generator; Self rated health

Indexed keywords

DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; GENDER; PUBLIC HEALTH; SELF ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL CAPITAL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; JAPAN; JAPANESE; MALE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL CAPITAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSTIC SELF EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

CHUGOKU; HONSHU; JAPAN; OKAYAMA [CHUGOKU];

EID: 84876173740     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.02.027     Document Type: Article

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