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Community change and resident needs: Designing a Participatory Action Research study in Metropolitan Boston

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Simpson, Shannon; Gavin, Vedette; Arcaya, Mariana Clair; Schnake-Mahl, Alina S.; Binet, Andrew David Richmond; Church, Margaret D.; ... Show more Show less
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Abstract
The health implications of urban development, particularly in rapidly changing, low-income urban neighborhoods, are poorly understood. We describe the Healthy Neighborhoods Study (HNS), a Participatory Action Research study examining the relationship between neighborhood change and population health in nine Massachusetts neighborhoods. Baseline data from the HNS survey show that social factors, specifically income insecurity, food insecurity, social support, experiencing discrimination, expecting to move, connectedness to the neighborhood, and local housing construction that participants believed would improve their lives, identified by a network of 45 Resident Researchers exhibited robust associations with self-rated and mental health. Resident-derived insights into relationships between neighborhoods and health may provide a powerful mechanism for residents to drive change in their communities.
Date issued
2018-07
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/117569
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory
Journal
Health & Place
Publisher
Elsevier
Citation
Arcaya, Mariana C., Alina Schnake-Mahl, Andrew Binet, Shannon Simpson, Maggie Super Church, Vedette Gavin, Bill Coleman, et al. “Community Change and Resident Needs: Designing a Participatory Action Research Study in Metropolitan Boston.” Health & Place 52 (July 2018): 221–230.
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13538292

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