Social cohesion and quality of life in Bandung: A cross sectional study.

In Bandung, Indonesia, urban expansion, rapid economic growth, and population increase present enormous challenges to the maintenance of a high quality of life (QOL) for its citizens. Moreover, income distribution in the city has become more unequal, thereby threatening social cohesion. Such situati...

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Autores principales:	Sekar Ayu Paramita, Chiho Yamazaki, Lukman Hilfi, Deni Kurniadi Sunjaya, Hiroshi Koyama
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
Materias:	Medicine R Science Q
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:20508565acc8457d9abeeeea0473034b2021-12-02T20:19:16ZSocial cohesion and quality of life in Bandung: A cross sectional study.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0258472https://doaj.org/article/20508565acc8457d9abeeeea0473034b2021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0258472https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203In Bandung, Indonesia, urban expansion, rapid economic growth, and population increase present enormous challenges to the maintenance of a high quality of life (QOL) for its citizens. Moreover, income distribution in the city has become more unequal, thereby threatening social cohesion. Such situations led us to investigate the states and correlation of social cohesion and QOL in Bandung. In 2018, we conducted a questionnaire survey of social cohesion and QOL using 13 and 18 question items, respectively. We employed the Rasch model analysis to analyze the logit measures of 752 responses. The results revealed that the population of Bandung has high social cohesion and decent QOL. Our findings suggest that in Bandung QOL is significantly correlated with social cohesion, therefore strategies that seek to enhance social cohesion may be beneficial to improve the QOL.Sekar Ayu ParamitaChiho YamazakiLukman HilfiDeni Kurniadi SunjayaHiroshi KoyamaPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 10, p e0258472 (2021)
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description	In Bandung, Indonesia, urban expansion, rapid economic growth, and population increase present enormous challenges to the maintenance of a high quality of life (QOL) for its citizens. Moreover, income distribution in the city has become more unequal, thereby threatening social cohesion. Such situations led us to investigate the states and correlation of social cohesion and QOL in Bandung. In 2018, we conducted a questionnaire survey of social cohesion and QOL using 13 and 18 question items, respectively. We employed the Rasch model analysis to analyze the logit measures of 752 responses. The results revealed that the population of Bandung has high social cohesion and decent QOL. Our findings suggest that in Bandung QOL is significantly correlated with social cohesion, therefore strategies that seek to enhance social cohesion may be beneficial to improve the QOL.
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author	Sekar Ayu Paramita Chiho Yamazaki Lukman Hilfi Deni Kurniadi Sunjaya Hiroshi Koyama
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title	Social cohesion and quality of life in Bandung: A cross sectional study.
title_short	Social cohesion and quality of life in Bandung: A cross sectional study.
title_full	Social cohesion and quality of life in Bandung: A cross sectional study.
title_fullStr	Social cohesion and quality of life in Bandung: A cross sectional study.
title_full_unstemmed	Social cohesion and quality of life in Bandung: A cross sectional study.
title_sort	social cohesion and quality of life in bandung: a cross sectional study.
publisher	Public Library of Science (PLoS)
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Social cohesion and quality of life in Bandung: A cross sectional study.

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