Investigating the relationship between neighborhood poverty and mortality risk: A marginal structural modeling approach

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 91, Issue , 2013, Pages 58-66

  Do, D Phuong ^a,c   Wang, Lu ^b   Elliott, Michael R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal modeling; Longitudinal analysis; Marginal structural modeling; Neighborhood effects; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; MODELING; MORTALITY RISK; NEIGHBORHOOD; POVERTY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; URBAN SOCIETY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INCOME; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MORTALITY; NEIGHBORHOOD; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; POVERTY; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIAL STATUS; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING;

CAUSAL MODELING; LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS; MARGINAL STRUCTURAL MODELING; NEIGHBORHOOD EFFECTS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MORTALITY; POVERTY AREAS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84880393960     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.03.003     Document Type: Article

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