Social participation and mortality: does social position in civic groups matter?

• Main Authors: Yoshiki Ishikawa (Author), Naoki Kondo (Author), Katsunori Kondo (Author), Toshiya Saito (Author), Hana Hayashi (Author), Ichiro Kawachi (Author), for the JAGES group (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2016-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Social participation is known to predict longevity. However, little is known about the effect of social participation according to an individual's position in civic groups. We evaluated the influence of social position on mortality, using data from a large cohort of Japanese...