Neighborhoods and Health (Medicine)

Contents......Page 10
Contributors......Page 12
1. Introduction......Page 18
2. Neighborhoods and Health: An Overview......Page 37
PART I: METHODOLOGICAL AND CONCEPTUAL APPROACHES TO STUDYING NEIGHBORHOOD EFFECTS ON HEALTH......Page 60
3. The Examination of Neighborhood Effects on Health: Conceptual and Methodological Issues Related to the Presence of Multiple Levels of Organization......Page 62
4. Multilevel Methods for Public Health Research......Page 82
5. The Quantitative Assessment of Neighborhood Social Environments......Page 129
6. Neighborhood-Level Context and Health: Lessons from Sociology......Page 149
7. Geocoding and Measurement of Neighborhood Socioeconomic Position: A U.S. Perspective......Page 164
8. Area-Based Deprivation Measures: A U.K. Perspective......Page 196
PART II: NEIGHBORHOODS AND HEALTH OUTCOMES......Page 226
9. Neighborhoods and Infectious Diseases......Page 228
10. Infant Health: Race, Risk, and Residence......Page 240
11. Putting Asthma into Context: Community Influences on Risk, Behavior, and Intervention......Page 250
PART III: THE CONTOURS OF NEIGHBORHOOD EFFECTS ON HEALTH......Page 280
12. Residential Segregation and Health......Page 282
13. Neighborhoods and Networks: The Construction of Safe Places and Bridges......Page 305
14. Neighborhoods, Aging, and Functional Limitations......Page 320
15. Neighborhoods, Health Research, and Its Relevance to Public Policy......Page 352
C......Page 366
M......Page 367
S......Page 368
Z......Page 369