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Revisiting causal neighborhood effects on individual ischemic heart disease risk: A quasi-experimental multilevel analysis among Swedish siblings

Merlo, Juan; Ohlsson, Henrik; Chaix, Basile; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 76 (2013) C, pp. 39-46

Neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage is associated to increased individual risk of ischemic heart disease (IHD). However, the value of this association for causal inference is uncertain. Moreover, neighborhoods are often defined by available administrative boundaries without evaluating in...

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Social capital and administrative contextual determinants of lack of access to a regular doctor: A multilevel analysis in southern Sweden

Lindstrom, Martin; Axen, Elin; Lindstrom, Christine; … - In: Health Policy 79 (2006) 2-3, pp. 153-164

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Bringing the individual back to small-area variation studies: A multilevel analysis of all-cause mortality in Andalusia, Spain

Merlo, Juan; Viciana-Fernández, Francisco J.; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 8, pp. 1477-1487

We performed a multilevel analysis (including individuals, households, census tracts, municipalities and provinces) on a 10% sample (N=230,978) from the Longitudinal Database of the Andalusian Population (LDAP). We aimed to investigate place effects on 8-year individual mortality risk. Moreover,...

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The Danish effect on Swedish alcohol costs

Jarl, Johan; Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; Lyttkens, Carl; Lithman, Thor - In: The European Journal of Health Economics 7 (2006) 1, pp. 46-54

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Individual and neighbourhood determinants of social participation and social capital: a multilevel analysis of the city of Malmö, Sweden

Lindström, Martin; Merlo, Juan; Östergren, Per-Olof - In: Social Science & Medicine 54 (2002) 12, pp. 1779-1791

The aim of this study was to analyse the impact of neighbourhood on individual social capital (measured as social participation). The study population consisted of 14,390 individuals aged 45-73 that participated in the Malmö diet and cancer study in 1992-1994, residing in 90 neighbourhoods of...

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Social capital, the miniaturisation of community, traditionalism and first time acute myocardial infarction: A prospective cohort study in southern Sweden

Ali, Sadiq M.; Merlo, Juan; Rosvall, Maria; Lithman, Thor; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 63 (2006) 8, pp. 2204-2217

This longitudinal study investigates the impact of social participation, trust and the combinations of social participation and trust on the incidence of first time acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in the population of Scania, southern Sweden. It is based on the cross-sectional 2000...

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Does it really matter where you live? A panel data multilevel analysis of Swedish municipality-level social capital on individual health-related quality of life

Islam, M. Kamrul; Merlo, Juan; Kawachi, Ichiro; Lindstr … - In: Health Economics, Policy and Law 1 (2006) 03, pp. 209-235

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Social capital externalities and mortality in Sweden

Islam, M. Kamrul; Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; Gullberg, Bo; … - In: Economics & Human Biology 6 (2008) 1, pp. 19-42

We conceptualize social capital as an aggregate factor affecting health production and analyze the effect of community social capital (CSC) externalities on individual mortality risk in Sweden. The study was based on a random sample from the adult Swedish population of approximately 95,000...

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Social capital and sense of insecurity in the neighbourhood: a population-based multilevel analysis in Malmö, Sweden

Lindström, Martin; Merlo, Juan; Östergren, Per-Olof - In: Social Science & Medicine 56 (2003) 5, pp. 1111-1120

The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of social capital on self-reported sense of insecurity in the neighbourhood. The public health survey in Malmö, Sweden in 1994 was a cross-sectional study. A total of 5600 individuals aged 20-80 years were asked to answer a postal...

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Anxiolytic-hypnotic drug use associated with trust, social participation, and the miniaturization of community: A multilevel analysis

Johnell, Kristina; Lindström, Martin; Melander, Arne; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 62 (2006) 5, pp. 1205-1214

The concept of social capital has gained wide interest in public health research in recent years. However, we suggest a concept that was introduced and developed by Fukuyama, named "miniaturization of community", as an alternative to that of social capital. The concept of miniaturization of...

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