Does where you live matter to your health? Investigating factors that influence the self-rated health of urban and rural Chinese residents: Evidence drawn from Chinese General Social Survey data

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Chen, Hongsheng ^a   Liu, Ye ^b   Zhu, Zhenjun ^a   Li, Zhigang ^c  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Environmental quality; Green space; Health disparity; Physical exercise; Self rated health

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CHINA; CHINESE; COMMUNITY LIVING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GREEN SPACE SHORTAGE; HEALTH; HUMAN; INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SUPPLY; ADOLESCENT; AGED; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL HEALTH; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; URBAN HEALTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHINA; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RURAL HEALTH; RURAL POPULATION; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; URBAN HEALTH; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 85018484073     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12955-017-0658-0     Document Type: Article

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