More green space is related to less antidepressant prescription rates in the Netherlands: A Bayesian geoadditive quantile regression approach

Environmental Research

Volumn 166, Issue , 2018, Pages 290-297

  Helbich, Marco ^a   Klein, Nadja ^b   Roberts, Hannah ^a   Hagedoorn, Paulien ^a   Groenewegen, Peter P ^a,c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Antidepressants; Exposures; Green space; Mental health; Quantile regression; Spatial epidemiology

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GREENSPACE; HEALTH POLICY; MENTAL HEALTH; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL POLICY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HUMAN; NETHERLANDS; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENT; MENTAL HEALTH;

NETHERLANDS;

ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; BAYES THEOREM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALTH; NETHERLANDS;

EID: 85048730921     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2018.06.010     Document Type: Article

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