The association between social position and self-rated health in 10 deprived neighbourhoods

BMC Public Health

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Bak, Carsten Kronborg ^a   Andersen, Pernille Tanggaard ^b   Dokkedal, Unni ^c  

^a Department of Health Science and Technology Unit of Epidemiology and Public Health   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Deprived neighbourhood; Index for life resources; Self rated health; Social position

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; DENMARK; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INCOME; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RURAL POPULATION; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; URBAN POPULATION; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

DENMARK; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INCOME; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RURAL POPULATION; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL CLASS; URBAN POPULATION; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 84938874760     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-015-1377-2     Document Type: Article

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