Social Stability and Health: Exploring Multidimensional Social Disadvantage.
Social stability is an understudied construct in public health that offers a useful framework for understanding social disadvantage across multiple domains. This study investigated prevalence and patterns of cooccurrence among a hypothesized set of social stability characteristics (housing, resident...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Urban Health Vol. 89; no. 1; pp. 19 - 36 |
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Springer Nature
Feb2012
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