Table 2.

Spearman correlation between health-outcome variables and health determinants.

	Health Outcome	Overweight (%)	Dental Problems (%)	Deficits in Viso-Motoric Development (%)	Deficits in Language Development (%)
Health Determinants
Social variables
Social status index		−0.780 **	−0.786 **	−0.660 **	−0.822 **
Non-German (%)		0.809 **	0.754 **	0.334 **	0.779 **
Single parent household (%)		0.333 **	0.475 **	0.415 **	0.365 **
Complete measles immunization (%)		0.354 **	0.394 **	0.467 **	0.470 **
Participating in U8 (%)		−0.525 **	−0.507 **	−0.356 **	−0.506 **
Socio-environmental variables
Kindergarten attendance (%)		−0.780 **	−0.821 **	−0.585 **	−0.873 **
Smokers in family (%)		0.658 **	0.686 **	0.630 **	0.685 **
Own TV (%)		0.689 **	0.728 **	0.747 **	0.754 **
Land use variables
Simple residential area (%)		0.520 **	0.525 **	0.444 **	0.538 **
Natural area (%)		−0.149	−0.172	−0.260 *	−0.248
Per capita natural area (m²/inhabitants)		−0.322 **	−0.334 **	−0.209	−0.332 **
Inhabitants with availability of natural area (%)		0.105	0.102	0.116	0.106
Population density (inhabitants/km²)		0.369 **	0.393 **	0.168	0.342 **

* p < 0.5; ** p < 0.01, significant correlations in bold.