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Identifying county characteristics associated with resident well-being: A population based study
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, PLoS ONE, Vol 13, Iss 5, p e0196720 (2018)
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- Background Well-being is a positively-framed, holistic assessment of health and quality of life that is associated with longevity and better health outcomes. We aimed to identify county attributes that are independently associated with a comprehensive, multi-dimensional assessment of individual well-being. Methods We performed a cross-sectional study examining associations between 77 pre-specified county attributes and a multi-dimensional assessment of individual US residents’ well-being, captured by the Gallup-Sharecare Well-Being Index. Our cohort included 338,846 survey participants, randomly sampled from 3,118 US counties or county equivalents. Findings We identified twelve county-level factors that were independently associated with individual well-being scores. Together, these twelve factors explained 91% of the variance in individual well-being scores, and they represent four conceptually distinct categories: demographic (% black); social and economic (child poverty, education level [
- Subjects :
- Male
Cross-sectional study
Economics
Economics of Training and Education
lcsh:Medicine
Social Sciences
Transportation
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
0302 clinical medicine
Sociology
Residence Characteristics
Medicine and Health Sciences
Public and Occupational Health
030212 general & internal medicine
Young adult
lcsh:Science
Human Capital
Multidisciplinary
Schools
Geography
1. No poverty
Middle Aged
Socioeconomic Aspects of Health
Hospitals
3. Good health
Cohort
Female
Psychology
Behavioral and Social Aspects of Health
Mammography
Research Article
Adult
Adolescent
Environment
Human Geography
Education
03 medical and health sciences
Young Adult
Quality of life (healthcare)
Health Economics
Mental Health and Psychiatry
Child poverty
Humans
Poverty
Aged
Health economics
lcsh:R
Health Care
Cross-Sectional Studies
Socioeconomic Factors
Health Care Facilities
Well-being
Quality of Life
Earth Sciences
Household income
Human Mobility
lcsh:Q
Demography
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 13
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PloS one
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....73d9cbb4370f59174f5103ff83251f8a