Social participation and mental health: Moderating effects of gender, social role and rurality

BMC Public Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Takagi, Daisuke ^a   Kondo, Katsunori ^b   Kawachi, Ichiro ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NIHON FUKUSHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Depressive symptoms; Gender difference; Japan; Key roles; Multilevel analysis; Older people; Rural areas; Social participation

Indexed keywords

AGED; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HOUSING; HUMAN; JAPAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; ORGANIZATION; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HOUSING; HUMANS; JAPAN; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; ORGANIZATIONS; RURAL POPULATION; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION;

EID: 84880938727     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-701     Document Type: Article

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