Research on neighborhood effects on health in the United States: A systematic review of study characteristics
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Author(s)
Arcaya, Mariana Clair
Tucker-Seeley, Reginald
Kim, Rockli
Schnake-Mahl, Alina
So, Marvin
Subramanian, S. V.
Date Issued
August 2016
Journal
Social Science & Medicine
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Citation
Arcaya, Mariana, et al. "Research on neighborhood effects on health in the United States: A systematic review of study characteristics." Social Science & Medicine (November 2016) 168:16-29. © 2016 Elsevier Ltd.
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Abstract
Neighborhood effects on health research has grown over the past 20 years. While the substantive findings of this literature have been published in systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and commentaries, operational details of the research have been understudied. We identified 7140 multi-level neighborhoods and health papers published on US populations between 1995 and 2014, and present data on the study characteristics of the 256 papers that met our inclusion criteria. Our results reveal rapid growth in neighborhoods and health research in the mid-2000s, illustrate the dominance of observational cross-sectional study designs, and show a heavy reliance on single-level, census-based neighborhood definitions. Socioeconomic indicators were the most commonly analyzed neighborhood variables and body mass was the most commonly studied health outcome. Well-known challenges associated with neighborhood effects research were infrequently acknowledged. We discuss how these results move the agenda forward for neighborhoods and health research. Neighborhoods; Study design; Multi-level; Social epidemiology; USA
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Aavailable in PMC 2017 November 01.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning
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https://doi.org/10.1016/J.SOCSCIMED.2016.08.047
