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American Journal of Epidemiology 2005 161(3):297-298; doi:10.1093/aje/kwi036
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Copyright © 2005 by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

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Social Support and Physical Health: Understanding the Health Consequences of Relationships

Elaine D. Eaker

Eaker Epidemiology Enterprises, LLC, Chili, WI 54420

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By Bert N. Uchino

ISBN 0-300-10218-6, Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut (Telephone: 800-405-1619, Fax: 800-406-9145, E-mail: customer.care@triliteral.org, Website: http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/), 2004, 240 pp., $35.00 (hardcover)

The concept of "social support" and its relation to health outcomes has been a focus of study in psychosocial epidemiology for over 25 years. The intuitive sense that high levels of social support protect people from disease and early death has not always been realized in epidemiologic studies. In the history of this research, the goal has generally been to determine whether some measure of social support is an "independent" . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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