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Health & Place

Volume 1, Issue 1, March 1995, Pages 27-40
Health & Place

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Individuals and their ecologies: analysing the geography of chronic illness within a multilevel modelling framework

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Abstract

This paper argues for the importance of place differences in understanding chronic illness. A conceptual distinction is drawn between individual and ecological effects and it is argued that aggregate analysis provides an inappropriate methodology for studying place differences. Multilevel modelling, in contrast, allows for the simultaneous analysis of individuals and their ecologies. This approach is applied to data derived from a nationally representative sample of over 9 000 United Kingdom individuals in nearly 400 places.

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