abstract：:In 2005, Carlisle suffered severe flooding and 1600 houses were affected. A qualitative research project to study the social and health impacts was undertaken. People whose homes had been flooded and workers who had supported them were interviewed. The findings showed that there was severe disruption to people's lives...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Carroll B,Morbey H,Balogh R,Araoz G

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this paper is to study how structural determinants and the role of injecting drug users (IDUs) as a bridging population to the general population affected the AIDS subepidemic in southern Brazil during 1986-2000. Data from 288 southernmost Brazilian municipalities were analyzed. Using hierarchical modeling ...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Hacker MA,Leite I,Friedman SR,Carrijo RG,Bastos FI

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, differences in physical activity between adults living in high versus low walkable neighbourhoods were examined. In Sint-Niklaas, Belgium, neighbourhood walkability was defined by geographical map data and observations. One high walkable and one low walkable neighbourhood were selected. A sample of 120 ...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Van Dyck D,Deforche B,Cardon G,De Bourdeaudhuij I

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Access to healthy food has become an important area of investigation for researchers interested in health disparities and inequalities. The debate about the existence and characteristics of 'food deserts' has increased the interest in food availability and equity in health research. This debate is crucial to an unders...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Coveney J,O'Dwyer LA

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study assessed the amount of physical activity engaged in by youth aged 11-13, in relation to: (1) the presence of neighborhood recreational opportunities, objectively measured within a geographic information system; and (2) parents' perceptions of recreation opportunities in their neighborhoods. Students in grad...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Tucker P,Irwin JD,Gilliland J,He M,Larsen K,Hess P

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper examines the relationship between neighborhood stressors, stressors related to parenting, children's evaluations of neighborhood quality, and child depression. One hundred and twenty-six young adolescents in three disadvantaged New York City neighborhoods completed surveys on neighborhood quality and child ...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Schaefer-McDaniel N

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Geographic and ecological analysis may provide investigators useful ecological information for the control of shigellosis. This paper provides distribution of individual Shigella species in space, and ecological covariates for shigellosis in Nha Trang, Vietnam. Data on shigellosis in neighborhoods were used to identif...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Kim DR,Ali M,Thiem VD,Park JK,von Seidlein L,Clemens J

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied whether migration influences the relationship between area socioeconomic structure and mortality. We used data on Finns aged 25-64 that are linked to information on proportions of manual workers in 85 functional regions in 1987 and 1997, and on deaths in 1998-2004. Participants aged 25-44 moving to areas wi...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Martikainen P,Sipilä P,Blomgren J,van Lenthe FJ

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in educational inequalities in mortality in a country that underwent a sudden population growth were examined using two census-based longitudinal studies from Israel (I, 1983-1992, n=152,150 and II, 1995-2004, n=209,125). Relative changes in educational inequalities in mortality were assessed using mortality r...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Jaffe DH,Neumark YD,Eisenbach Z,Manor O

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The shift in health care focus towards an emphasis on population health gains via health promotion is now well established. One of the strategies that has been promoted as a means of better addressing the shortcomings in delivering health care that attends more specifically to preventative and promotion activities has...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Thompson L

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, there has been a proliferation of research on the effects of the built environment, including mass transit systems, on health-related outcomes. While there is general agreement that the built environment affects travel choices and physical activity, it remains unclear how much of a public health benef...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Stokes RJ,MacDonald J,Ridgeway G

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The ecological associations between suicide rates and different indices of deprivation within London have been investigated at least for half a century. In the present study, the association between rates of suicide with newly developed hot spots of deprivation index within London boroughs have been studie...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Rezaeian M,Dunn G,St Leger S,Appleby L

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To compare physical activity levels of residents of three Swiss alpine communities with varying access to motorized transport and to investigate whether socio-demographic factors, the settlement structure or means of transport affect these levels. METHODS:Between January and February 2004 a computer as...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Dombois OT,Braun-Fahrländer C,Martin-Diener E

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study concerns ethnicity, spatial equity, and healthcare access in the context of diversity and integration. The paper first explores how Chinese immigrants in the Toronto Census Metropolitan Area choose between ethnic Chinese family physicians and other family physicians, based on a probability survey. It then ap...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Wang L

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to quantify the agreement between perceived and objective measures of the natural environment and to assess their associations with physical activity. Perception of the natural environment was obtained through survey data. Objective measures of weather and hills were created using Geograp...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： McGinn AP,Evenson KR,Herring AH,Huston SL

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The popularity of direct or systematic social observation as a method to evaluate the mechanisms by which neighborhood environments impact health and contribute to health disparities is growing. The development of measures with adequate inter-rater and test-retest reliability is essential for this research. In this pa...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Zenk SN,Schulz AJ,Mentz G,House JS,Gravlee CC,Miranda PY,Miller P,Kannan S

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Even in generalized HIV/AIDS epidemics, vulnerable populations such as sex workers and truckers require special attention in programming. Combining a number of elicitation methods, centred on Geographical Information Systems (GIS) mapping, the Kenyan section of the Northern Corridor highway was studied to characterize...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Ferguson AG,Morris CN

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies that estimate the influence of characteristics of place on health often use geocoded addresses to identify location of study subjects. This study uses housing built before 1990 selected for the 1995-2001 National Health Interview Survey (N=252,421) to develop a standard against which geocodes obtained from an ...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Kravets N,Hadden WC

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper examines the prospects for integrating Internet platform GIS or 'web-GIS' into environmental justice and related public health research. Specifically, we document the development of a web-GIS created for investigating relationships between health, air quality and socioeconomic factors in Hamilton, Canada. A...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Maclachlan JC,Jerrett M,Abernathy T,Sears M,Bunch MJ

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper examines the spatial point pattern of industrial toxic substances and the associated environmental justice implications in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA. Using a spatial analysis method called Ripley's K we assess environmental justice across multiple spatial scales, and we verify and quantify...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Fisher JB,Kelly M,Romm J

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports on the methods used and results of a study that identified specific places within a community that have the potential to be sites for a diabetes prevention program. These sites, termed diabetes knowledge network nodes (DKNNs), are based on the concept of socio-spatial knowledge networks (SSKNs), the...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Gesler WM,Arcury TA,Skelly AH,Nash S,Soward A,Dougherty M

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study offers an overview of the health status of rural populations and its major determinants in Québec. A wide range of indicators are examined along a spatial grid that allows rural-urban as well as intrarural comparisons. Differences between urban and rural populations mainly concern specific health problems a...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Pampalon R,Martinez J,Hamel D

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:This study simultaneously tests the effect of county, organizational, workplace, and individual level variables on depressive disorders among low-income nursing assistants employed in US nursing homes. A total of 482 observations are used from two waves of survey data collection, with an average two-year int...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Muntaner C,Li Y,Xue X,Thompson T,O'Campo P,Chung H,Eaton WW

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This multilevel study followed 4.5 million Swedish women and men from 1 January 1998 until 31 December 1999 in order to examine the association between neighbourhood income (defined as proportions of individuals with low income) and psychiatric hospital admissions. Individuals living in the poorest neighbourhoods exhi...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Sundquist K,Ahlen H

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Obesity and physical inactivity are known to be risk factors for many chronic diseases including hypertension, coronary artery disease, diabetes, and cancer. We sought to explore the association between an indicator of transportation data (Vehicle Miles of Travel, VMT) at the county level as it relates to obesity ...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Lopez-Zetina J,Lee H,Friis R

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes a web-based multimedia spatial information system used to support a study of the re-invasion of Aedes aegypti, the mosquito vector for dengue fever, in the deserts of the southwest United States/northwest Mexico. The system was developed applying Open Geospatial Consortium and World Wide Web Conso...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Moreno-Sanchez R,Hayden M,Janes C,Anderson G

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This qualitative analysis of focus groups describes how neighborhood design encourages active aging. Nine focus groups were conducted in 2002 and 2003 with residents (N=60) aged 55 and over living in Portland, OR, USA. Content analysis revealed that local shopping and services, traffic and pedestrian infrastructure, n...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Michael YL,Green MK,Farquhar SA

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:This study of the relation of social problems to mortality in the context of growth and decline in 50 New York counties is guided by an ecological framework that sees communities depending on their many agencies and services for maintaining and improving the well-being of residents despite external problems/...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Young FW

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The empirical relationship between income inequality and health has been much debated and discussed. Recent reviews suggest that the current evidence is mixed, with the relationship between state income inequality and health in the United States (US) being perhaps the most robust. In this paper, we examine the multile...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Subramanian SV,Kawachi I

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper is concerned with developing methods for assessing the potential impact of healthy public policies on health outcomes, particularly on dental trauma. The hypothesis is that in deprived areas of Curitiba, Brazil, there would be a lower prevalence of dental trauma in 12-year-old schoolchildren related to diff...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Moysés SJ,Moysés ST,McCarthy M,Sheiham A

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper considers examples from research that has interpreted literary works including representations of topographical landscapes, in order to examine the geographical and social perspectives of the author, and of the society in which the author was living and working. We focus especially on the use of representat...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Tonnellier F,Curtis S

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research in Gospel Oak indicates high-rates of common mental disorder. This paper explores how far deficits in social capital may be linked to these rates. Interviews, focus groups and participant observation were conducted to assess social capital in Gospel Oak from the phenomenological experience of residen...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Whitley R,Prince M

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, both positive and negative effects of residential instability on various health outcomes have been described. The present study tests these effects in a European context, using two different data-sources (1) neighbourhood level data on socioeconomic deprivation and residential instability, and (2) individu...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Drukker M,Kaplan C,van Os J

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years both new knowledges and new experts have been introduced into public health as part of the development of multidisciplinary practice. This paper presents an analysis of these recent changes, which is informed by theoretical ideas around governmentality and geographies of knowledge. Although critical ge...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Williamson S

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents findings from a qualitative study of young adults living in a relatively deprived metropolitan area in Sweden. The analysis of interview data yielded four separate types of neighbourhood discourses, each related to a major hegemonic 'discourse of the problematic area'. The discursive model was used...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Castro PB,Lindbladh E

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This ecological study investigated whether the relationship between social disadvantage and hospitalization for psychoses changed during a time of social and economic stressors in an urban setting. Hospital separation rates were compared in the census years 1991 and 1996. Rates were 66% higher in the lowest income are...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Rhodes AE,Agha M,Creatore M,Glazier R

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been an increase in Australia's intake of refugees and migrants from sub-Saharan Africa over the last two decades. These refugees have been exposed to nutritional risks prior to migration, which, together with changes associated with acculturation, impact on their health and nutritional status post-migration...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Renzaho AM

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This research note reports progress in visualizing and analyzing United States mortality data at the county level. The data visualization technique employed here may be applicable to other research situations. We dichotomized the range of mortality rates into high or low mortality counties, mapped them, and explored t...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Cossman RE,Cossman JS,Jackson R,Cosby A

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study assesses gender differentials in the distribution of dental caries and restorative treatment at the city level in order to discuss gender inequities in health. We retrieved data for caries prevalence and dental service utilisation by 11- and 12-year-old girls and boys in 131 towns in the state of São Paulo,...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Antunes JL,Junqueira SR,Frazão P,Bispo CM,Pegoretti T,Narvai PC

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the effect of psychosocial factors and environmental perceptions on self-rated health in the environmentally devastated Aral Sea area of Karakalpakstan. Self-rated health was assessed using a questionnaire on 881 randomly selected individuals from three communities. Communities were chosen based on...

journal_title：Health & place

authors： Crighton EJ,Elliott SJ,Upshur R,van der Meer J,Small I

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00