Residence Characteristics
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Mortality among residents of shelters, rooming houses, and hotels in Canada: 11 year follow-up study.

24 Oct 2009 OBJECTIVE: To examine mortality in a representative nationwide sample of homeless and marginally housed people living in shelters, rooming houses, and hotels. DESIGN: Follow-up study. SETTING: Canada 1991-2001. PARTICIPANTS: 15 100 homeless and ... Read more...

Neighborhood resources for physical activity and healthy foods and incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus: the Multi-Ethnic study of Atherosclerosis.

10 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: Despite increasing interest in the extent to which features of residential environments contribute to incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus, no multisite prospective studies have investigated this question. We hypothesized that ... Read more...

Prospective study of urban form and physical activity in the Black Women's Health Study.

4 Oct 2009 The authors used data from the Black Women's Health Study to assess the association between neighborhood urban form and physical activity. Women reported hours/week of utilitarian and exercise walking and of vigorous activity in 1995 and on biennial ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Residence Characteristics'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Identifying neighborhood stressors in assessment of drug treatment continuity and relapse. 30 Oct 2009
• Academic titles: are they meaningful and what purpose do they serve? 30 Oct 2009
• Mortality among residents of shelters, rooming houses, and hotels in Canada: 11 year follow-up study. 24 Oct 2009
• Loss of independence in patients starting dialysis at 80 years of age or older. 13 Oct 2009
• Neighborhood resources for physical activity and healthy foods and incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus: the Multi-Ethnic study of Atherosclerosis. 10 Oct 2009
• Quality of residential neighborhood: a modifiable risk factor for type 2 diabetes? 10 Oct 2009
• Prospective study of urban form and physical activity in the Black Women's Health Study. 4 Oct 2009
• Area disadvantage, socioeconomic position and women's contraception use: a multilevel study in the UK. 29 Sep 2009
• The influence of neighborhood environment on treatment continuity and rehospitalization in dually diagnosed patients discharged from acute inpatient care. 29 Sep 2009
• [Access to preventative care, screening and treatment of women in vulnerable socio-economic groups presenting with cervical cancer] 29 Sep 2009
• Epidemiology of anesthesia-related complications in labor and delivery, New York State, 2002-2005. 29 Sep 2009
• Therapeutic options and patterns of prescription in chronic venous disorders: results of a 3-year survey in Italy. 29 Sep 2009
• Quality of care for atrial fibrillation among patients hospitalized for heart failure. 27 Sep 2009
• Concerns grow over Cambodia's "AIDS colony". 17 Sep 2009
• Neighborhood deprivation, individual socioeconomic status, and frailty in older adults. 13 Sep 2009
• Comparisons between geographies of mortality and deprivation from the 1900s and 2001: spatial analysis of census and mortality statistics. 8 Sep 2009
• Sex hormones and frailty in older men: the osteoporotic fractures in men (MrOS) study. 6 Sep 2009
• Effect of two different house screening interventions on exposure to malaria vectors and on anaemia in children in The Gambia: a randomised controlled trial. Sep 2009
• Urban versus rural residence and occurrence of septal heart defects in Texas. 30 Aug 2009
• Are birth defects among Hispanics related to maternal nativity or number of years lived in the United States? 30 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Residence Characteristics'

Definition: Elements of residence that characterize a population. They are applicable in determining need for and utilization of health services.

Descriptor UI: D012111

Alternative terms: Residence Characteristics; Characteristic, Residence; Characteristics, Residence; Residence Characteristic; Domicile; Domiciles; Residential Selection; Residential Selections; Selection, Residential; Selections, Residential; Neighborhood; Neighborhoods; Place of Birth; Birth Place; Community; Communities; Living Arrangements; Arrangement, Living; Arrangements, Living; Living Arrangement;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; statistics & numerical data;

Tree Number: N01.224.791; N06.850.505.400.800;

History Note: 68

Technical Notes: specify geog if pertinent