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Perceived neighborhood characteristics and the health of adult Koreans
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It is found that the extent to which respondents perceive their neighborhood quality selectively affects the health of adult Koreans, and how individuals are satisfied with overall neighborhood characteristics, with neighborhood safety and with relationships to neighbors is considerably and significantly associated with self-rated and emotional health status among Koreans.About:
This article is published in Social Science & Medicine.The article was published on 2005-03-01. It has received 45 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Socioeconomic status & Quality of life (healthcare).read more
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Understanding differences in past year psychiatric disorders for Latinos living in the US
Margarita Alegría,Patrick E. Shrout,Meghan Woo,Peter J. Guarnaccia,William M. Sribney,Doryliz Vila,Antonio J. Polo,Zhun Cao,Zhun Cao,Norah Mulvaney-Day,Norah Mulvaney-Day,Maria Torres,Glorisa Canino +12 more
TL;DR: The results uncover that nativity may be a less important independent risk factor for current psychiatric morbidity than originally thought and suggest that successful adaptation into the US is a multidimensional process that includes maintenance of family harmony, integration in advantageous US neighborhoods, and positive perceptions of social standing.
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Social capital, socio-economic status and psychological distress among Australian adults
TL;DR: Having trust in people, feeling safe in the community and having social reciprocity are associated with lower risk of mental health distress, demonstrating the importance of examining the interrelationships between socio-economic status, social capital and mental health for community-dwelling adults.
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Are perceptions of the local environment related to neighbourhood satisfaction and mental health in adults
Eva Leslie,Ester Cerin +1 more
TL;DR: Neighbourhood satisfaction may mediate the association between perceived environmental characteristics and measures of mental health in adults, and three NS factors were independent predictors ofmental health.
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The relationship between social participation and self-rated health by sex and age: a cross-sectional survey.
TL;DR: It is shown that social participation, which is an individual psychological resource, is important for health in all age groups, notwithstanding that the effect of social participation differs by age and sex.
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Neighbourhood deprivation and self-rated health: the role of perceptions of the neighbourhood and of housing problems.
TL;DR: It is found that the association between neighbourhood deprivation and self-rated health was substantially reduced after adjusting for individual socio-economic status, but remained statistically significant, suggesting that the health effects of neighbourhood deprivation are partly contextual.
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The CES-D Scale: A Self-Report Depression Scale for Research in the General Population
TL;DR: The CES-D scale as discussed by the authors is a short self-report scale designed to measure depressive symptomatology in the general population, which has been used in household interview surveys and in psychiatric settings.
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Neighborhoods and Violent Crime: A Multilevel Study of Collective Efficacy
TL;DR: Multilevel analyses showed that a measure of collective efficacy yields a high between-neighborhood reliability and is negatively associated with variations in violence, when individual-level characteristics, measurement error, and prior violence are controlled.
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Self-rated health and mortality : a review of twenty-seven community studies
Ellen L. Idler,Yael Benyamini +1 more
TL;DR: This work examines the growing number of studies of survey respondents' global self-ratings of health as predictors of mortality in longitudinal studies of representative community samples and suggests several approaches to the next stage of research in this field.
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Social capital, income inequality, and mortality.
TL;DR: Data from this cross-sectional ecologic study support the notion that income inequality leads to increased mortality via disinvestment in social capital.
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Social capital and self-rated health: a contextual analysis.
TL;DR: A contextual analysis of social capital and individual self-rated health, with adjustment for individual household income, health behaviors, and other covariates, finds a contextual effect of low social capital on risk of self-rating poor health.