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Poverty and transitions in health in later life

Adena, Maja; Myck, Michal - In: Social Science & Medicine 116 (2014) C, pp. 202-210

. We find that poverty defined with respect to relative income has no effect on changes in health. However, broader … measures of poor material conditions, such as subjective poverty or low wealth, significantly increase the probability of …. In addition to this, the subjective measure of poverty has a significant effect on mortality, increasing it by 65% among …

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The potential of social enterprise to enhance health and well-being: A model and systematic review

Roy, Michael J.; Donaldson, Cam; Baker, Rachel; Kerr, Susan - In: Social Science & Medicine 123 (2014) C, pp. 182-193

In recent years civil society organisations, associations, institutions and groups have become increasingly involved at various levels in the governance of healthcare systems around the world. In the UK, particularly in the context of recent reform of the National Health Service in England,...

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Measuring quality of life in mental health: Are we asking the right questions?

Connell, Janice; O'Cathain, Alicia; Brazier, John - In: Social Science & Medicine 120 (2014) C, pp. 12-20

Measuring quality-adjusted-life years using generic preference-based quality of life measures is common practice when evaluating health interventions. However, there are concerns that measures in common use, such as the EQ-5D and SF-6D, focus overly on physical health and therefore may not be...

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Exploring socio-cultural factors that mediate, facilitate, & constrain the health and empowerment of refugee youth

Edge, Sara; Newbold, K. Bruce; McKeary, Marie - In: Social Science & Medicine 117 (2014) C, pp. 34-41

Studies on youth health and well-being are predominantly quantitative and expert-driven with less attention given to how youth understand what it means to be healthy themselves and the role of socio-cultural factors in shaping this. Knowledge on the perceptions and experiences of refugee youth...

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Quality and quantity: The role of social interactions in self-reported individual health

Fiorillo, Damiano; Sabatini, Fabio - In: Social Science & Medicine 73 (2011) 11, pp. 1644-1652

The public health literature on the detrimental effects of social isolation has shown that the quantity of social connections is positively correlated with individual health. Drawing on pooled cross-sectional data, we test this hypothesis on a representative sample of the Italian population. Our...

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Estimating the causal effect of alcohol consumption on well-being for a cross-section of 9 former Soviet Union countries

Mentzakis, Emmanouil; Suhrcke, Marc; Roberts, Bayard; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 89 (2013) C, pp. 1-7

While the adverse health and economic consequences attributable to alcohol consumption are widely acknowledged, its impact on psychological wellbeing is less well understood. This is to a large extent due to the challenge of establishing causal effects of alcohol consumption when using standard...

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Reprint of: “I'm always entirely happy when I'm here!” Urban blue enhancing human health and well-being in Cologne and Düsseldorf, Germany

Völker, Sebastian; Kistemann, Thomas - In: Social Science & Medicine 91 (2013) C, pp. 141-152

Water is one of the most important landscape elements. In settled areas, planners rediscovered urban blue in the form of rivers as a soft location factor in post-industrial times. Although the recognition of the need for recreational or ‘healthy’ places like urban green or urban blue in...

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“I'm always entirely happy when I'm here!” Urban blue enhancing human health and well-being in Cologne and Düsseldorf, Germany

Völker, Sebastian; Kistemann, Thomas - In: Social Science & Medicine 78 (2013) C, pp. 113-124

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Sleeping, dreaming, and health in rural Indonesia and the urban U.S.: A cultural and experiential approach

Hollan, Douglas - In: Social Science & Medicine 79 (2013) C, pp. 23-30

Sleeping, dreaming, and health or well-being are all closely related phenomena from an experiential and cultural point of view, and yet all three are often studied in isolation from one another. In this paper, I use an ethnographic and clinical lens to compare and contrast patterns of sleeping...

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Health and well-being of movers in rural and urban areas – A grid-based analysis of northern Finland birth cohort 1966

Lankila, Tiina; Näyhä, Simo; Rautio, Arja; Koiranen, … - In: Social Science & Medicine 76 (2013) C, pp. 169-178

We examined the association of health and well-being with moving using a detailed geographical scale. 7845 men and women born in northern Finland in 1966 were surveyed by postal questionnaire in 1997 and linked to 1 km2 geographical grids based on each subject's home address in 1997–2000....

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