Does income inequality get under the skin? A multilevel analysis of depression, anxiety and mental disorders in São Paulo, Brazil

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 67, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 966-972

  Filho, Alexandre Dias Porto Chiavegatto ^a,b   Kawachi, Ichiro ^b   Wang, Yuan Pang ^a   Viana, Maria Carmen ^a   Andrade, Laura Helena Silveira Guerra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH RISK; HEALTH STATUS; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; MENTAL HEALTH; METROPOLITAN AREA; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

BRAZIL; SAO PAULO [BRAZIL];

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BRAZIL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; INCOME; INEQUALITIES; INTERVIEW; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL EPIDEMIOLOGY; SOCIAL INEQUALITIES; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

INEQUALITIES; MENTAL HEALTH; MULTILEVEL MODELLING; SOCIAL EPIDEMIOLOGY; SOCIAL INEQUALITIES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; BAYES THEOREM; BRAZIL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INCOME; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL CONDITIONS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885378642     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech-2013-202626     Document Type: Article

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