Urban built environment and depression: a multilevel analysis
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Urban built environment and depression: a multilevel analysis.
STUDY OBJECTIVE To assess the relations between characteristics of the neighbourhood internal and external built environment and past six month and lifetime depression. DESIGN AND SETTING Depression and sociodemographic information were assessed in a cross sectional survey of residents of New York City (NYC). All respondents were geocoded to neighbourhood of residence. Data on the quality of ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0143-005X
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2005.033084