Living Environment Matters: Relationships Between Neighborhood Characteristics and Health of the Residents in a Dutch Municipality

Journal of Community Health

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 47-56

  Putrik, Polina ^a,b   de Vries, Nanne K ^a   Mujakovic, Suhreta ^b   van Amelsvoort, Ludovic ^a   Kant, IJmert ^a   Kunst, Anton E ^c   van Oers, Hans ^d,e   Jansen, Maria ^a,b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Academic Collaborative Center for Public Health Limburg   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^e TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Depressive symptoms; Neighborhood; Self rated health; Social and physical environment; Socio economic inequalities

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGE; AGED; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; NETHERLANDS; NOISE; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEPRESSION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; NETHERLANDS; NOISE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SELF REPORT; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84939876457     PISSN: 00945145     EISSN: 15733610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10900-014-9894-y     Document Type: Article

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