“Where are all the lonely people?” A population-based study of high-risk groups across the life span

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 1373-1384

  Lasgaard, Mathias ^a,b   Friis, Karina ^a   Shevlin, Mark ^c  

^a DEFACTUM Public Health Health Services Research   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age; Health; High risk; Loneliness; Population

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; DENMARK; DISABLED PERSON; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONELINESS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUP; RISK; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DENMARK; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONELINESS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; RISK; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84984601365     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-016-1279-3     Document Type: Article

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