Neighborhood disadvantage, disorder, and health.

@article{Ross2001NeighborhoodDD,
  title={Neighborhood disadvantage, disorder, and health.},
  author={Catherine Ross and John Mirowsky},
  journal={Journal of health and social behavior},
  year={2001},
  volume={42 3},
  pages={
          258-76
        }
}
  • C. RossJ. Mirowsky
  • Published 1 September 2001
  • Psychology
  • Journal of health and social behavior
We examine the question of whether living in a disadvantaged neighborhood damages health, over and above the impact of personal socioeconomic characteristics. We hypothesize that (1) health correlates negatively with neighborhood disadvantage adjusting for personal disadvantage, and that (2) neighborhood disorder mediates the association, (3) partly because disorder and the fear associated with it discourage walking and (4) partly because they directly impair health. Data are from the 1995… 
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