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Neighborhood effects on the self-rated health of elders
— uncovering the relative importance of structural and service-related neighborhood environments | | Author(s) | S V Subramanian, Laura Kubzansky, Lisa Berkman |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 61B, no 3, May 2006 |
| Pages | pp S153-S160 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Neighbourhoods, communities etc ; Amenities ; Health [elderly] ; Living patterns ; Poor elderly ; Cross sectional surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Using multilevel statistical models, the authors examined the cross-sectional relationships between markers of neighbourhood effects (derived from the 1980 US Census and the 1985 Yellow Pages telephone book for New Haven, CT) and older people's self-rated health. They used survey data from the 1995 New Haven Established Population for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly (EPESE), comprising 1926 people aged 65+ nested within 28 census tracts. When controlled for individual age, gender, race, marital status, education and income, neighbourhood measures of percent poverty were positively associated with poor self-rated health, whereas residential stability and concentration of older people were inversely associated with poor self-rated health. Neighbourhood service density was not associated with self-rated health. The authors found support for the role of neighbourhood structural context (reflected through measures of poverty, residential stability and age-based demographic concentration) in predicting older people's health. Density of neighbourhood services did not appear to have an independent effect on older people's self-rated health. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070504215 A |
| Classmark | RH: R8: CC: K7: F:W6: 3KB: 7T |
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