Blues from the Neighborhood? Neighborhood Characteristics and Depression
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Blues from the neighborhood? Neighborhood characteristics and depression.
Unipolar major depression ranks among the leading contributors to the global burden of disease. Although established risk factors for depression include a variety of individual-level characteristics, neighborhood etiologic factors have been relatively understudied, with several such attributes (neighborhood socioeconomic status, physical conditions, services/amenities, social capital, social di...
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عنوان ژورنال: Epidemiologic Reviews
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0193-936X,1478-6729
DOI: 10.1093/epirev/mxn009