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| Urban neighborhood context and mortality in late life | | Author(s) | Richard G Wight, Janet R Cummings, Arun S Karlamangla |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging and Health, vol 22, no 2, March 2010 |
| Pages | pp 197-218 |
| Source | http://jah.sagepub.com/ doi:10.1177/0898264309355980 |
| Keywords | Death ; Urban areas ; Neighbourhoods, communities etc ; Economic status [elderly] ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | To examine the contextual effects of urban neighbourhood characteristics on mortality among older adults, data was taken from the Study of Assets and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD). Death is assessed between the baseline assessment (1993) and the first follow-up interview (1995). Neighbourhood data are from the 1990 Census. The log odds of dying between the two time points are higher in a high proportion of Hispanic neighbourhoods, net of individual-level sociodemographic variables, but this effect is partly mediated by individual-level health. The log odds of dying are significantly lower in affluent neighbourhoods, controlling for all individual-level variables and neighbourhood proportion Hispanic. There are survival-related benefits of living in an affluent urban neighbourhood, which the authors posit may be manifested through the diffusion of innovations in health care and health-promotion activities. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-100913201 A |
| Classmark | CW: RK: RH: F:W: 3J: 7T |
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