Social support network typologies and health outcomes of older people in low and middle income countries-A 10/66 Dementia Research Group population-based study

International Review of Psychiatry

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 476-485

  Thiyagarajan, Jotheeswaran A ^a,b,c   Prince, Martin ^a   Webber, Martin ^d  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION OF INDIA   (India)

^c Sangath ^*  (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CRITERION RELATED VALIDITY; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LONELINESS; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRACTITIONER ASSESSMENT OF NETWORK TYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL CARE; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UNHAPPINESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMENTIA; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISABLED PERSON; HAPPINESS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISABLED PERSONS; HAPPINESS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LONELINESS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POVERTY; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 84919816707     PISSN: 09540261     EISSN: 13691627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09540261.2014.925850     Document Type: Article

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