From social networks to health: Durkheim after the turn of the millennium

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 125, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-7

  Tsai, Alexander C ^a   Pierce, Chester M ^a,b,c   Papachristos, Andrew V ^d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c MBARARA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Uganda)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EDITORIAL; HEALTH; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MENTAL HEALTH; POLITICS; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 84919916922     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.10.045     Document Type: Editorial

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