Social cohesion matters in health

International Journal for Equity in Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Chuang, Ying Chih ^a   Chuang, Kun Yang ^a   Yang, Tzu Hsuan ^a  

^a TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Equality; Liberty; Self rated health; Social capital; Social cohesion; Solidarity

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA SET; FACTOR ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE; INCOME; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SOCIAL POLICY;

ARTICLE; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT; ETHNICITY; GENDER; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH; HUMAN; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SOCIAL COHESION; SOCIAL DIVERSITY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SOCIAL INCLUSION; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION; TRUST;

EUROPE;

DIAGNOSTIC SELF EVALUATION; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84886104263     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14759276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-9276-12-87     Document Type: Article

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