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Participation in Sports Organizations and the Prevention of Functional Disability in Older Japanese: The AGES Cohort Study
(Public Library of Science, 2012)
Background: We sought to examine prospectively the difference in the association between incident functional disability and exercise with or without sports organization participation. Methods: The study was based on the ...
Poverty in the Midst of Plenty: Unmet Needs and Distribution of Health Care Resources in South Korea
(Public Library of Science, 2012)
Background: The unmet needs for health care have been used as an alternative measurement to monitor equity in health services. We sought to examine contextual influences on unmet needs for health care whereas precedent ...
Clarifying the Use of Aggregated Exposures in Multilevel Models: Self-Included vs. Self-Excluded Measures
(Public Library of Science, 2012)
Background: Multilevel analyses are ideally suited to assess the effects of ecological (higher level) and individual (lower level) exposure variables simultaneously. In applying such analyses to measures of ecologies in ...
Economic crisis and smoking behaviour: prospective cohort study in Iceland
(BMJ Group, 2012)
Objective: To examine the associations between the 2008 economic collapse in Iceland and smoking behaviour at the national and individual levels. Design: A population-based, prospective cohort study based on a mail survey ...
Socioeconomic Inequalities in Adolescent Depression in South Korea: A Multilevel Analysis
(Public Library of Science, 2012)
Background: In recent years, South Korea has witnessed a sustained rise in the prevalence of adolescent depression. In the present study, we sought to investigate family and school environmental influences on adolescent ...
The Association between Oxytocin and Social Capital
(Public Library of Science, 2012)
Background: Oxytocin is known to be related to social behaviors, including trust. However, few studies have investigated the association between oxytocin levels and social capital. Thus, we tested the hypothesis that ...
Geographic Inequalities in All-Cause Mortality in Japan: Compositional or Contextual?
(Public Library of Science, 2012)
Background: A recent study from Japan suggested that geographic inequalities in all-cause premature adult mortality have increased since 1995 in both sexes even after adjusting for individual age and occupation in 47 ...