The Examination of Neighborhood Effects on Health: Conceptual and Methodological Issues Related to the Presence of Multiple Levels of Organization

Neighborhoods and Health

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Diez Roux, Ana V ^a  

^a New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Health effects; Health outcomes; Multilevel analysis; Neighborhood research; Organizational levels; Research design

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920028173     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195138382.003.0003     Document Type: Chapter

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