are less healthy. Most previous studies which have claimed that pets confer health benefits were cross-sectional. So they … associated with health. The German data come from the German Socio-Economic Panel in which respondents have been interviewed …

such measure. This has been collected by the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study in HBSC member countries … validity with other emotional well-being measures, perceived health and subjective health. Gender differences were noted in the …

-economic status (SES), well-being and health. Relatively few studies have examined sense of place at the neighbourhood level …. From a health perspective, the paper found that a strong association existed between sense of place and self …-perceived mental health across the three neighbourhood groups. Furthermore, by way of regression modeling, the paper examined the …

Quality of life concerns individual (physical and psychological health), interpersonal (social relationships) and …

This paper focuses on the relevance of quantitative and qualitative aspects of social networks in a health context. The … the mechanisms behind the association of social network size and self-rated health. The main research question in the … study is whether social integration affects health by changing stressor appraisal (perceived stressor intensity or …

, and health—we include two more, given their increasing importance in the literature that criticizes the HDI and suggests …

explosion of growth in research linking social capital to health. This paper investigates social capital in Hamilton, Ontario by … association between social capital perceptions and health, particularly mental health and life stress. Social capital was greater … actions, both volunteering and voting was associated with positive overall health and mental health. Finally, the paper …

and services, subjective poverty), and on their health (self-rated health, satisfaction with health). The simple bivariate … correlations of inequality with overall well-being, financial quality of life, and health are negative. But this is misleading …) and individual-level data on overall well-being, financial quality of life, and health. The individual cases are from …

) Connectedness to peers and to adults at school, at home, and in the neighborhood, (3) School experiences, (4) Physical health and …