ArticleCurrent epidemiology reports2015
Twenty Years of Neighborhood Effect Research: An Assessment.
Article in Current epidemiology reports, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 81 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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81 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- "Clear action requires clear thinking": A systematic review of gentrification and health research in the United States.Health & place · 2019Pooled it
- Research on neighborhood effects on health in the United States: A systematic review of study characteristics.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2016Pooled it
- The relationship of the local food environment with obesity: A systematic review of methods, study quality, and results.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2015Pooled it
- Effect of a Randomized Controlled Trial of Housing Vouchers on Adolescent Risky Sexual Behavior Over a 15-Year Period.Archives of sexual behavior · 2024Trial
- Do changes in neighborhood social context mediate the effects of the moving to opportunity experiment on adolescent mental health?Health & place · 2020Trial
- The price of admission: does moving to a low-poverty neighborhood increase discriminatory experiences and influence mental health?Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2019Trial
- A cross-sectional and prospective examination of alcohol use and misuse among adult twin and sibling pairs discordant for neighborhood socio-economic disadvantage.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2026Article
- Uncovering the biological toll of neighborhood disorder trajectories: a machine learning based weighting analysis of biomarkers in older adults.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2026Article
- Rural residence and mental health among US Veterans: Findings from the Millennium Cohort Study.PloS one · 2026Article
- Advancing equitable and sustainable urban health.Nature medicine · 2025Review
- A Geographic Weighted Regression Analysis of the Health Opportunity Index and Stroke Prevalence in Health and Human Services Region 3.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Neighborhood characteristics and incident myocardial infarction in US older adults: evaluation in 2 nationwide cohorts.American journal of epidemiology · 2025Article
- Deprivation and well-being in squalid living: a propensity score matched cross-sectional study of the English Housing Survey.BMC public health · 2025Article
- A Scoping Review of Neighborhood Effects and Health Among Children and Adolescents: Measurement and Design Characteristics.Journal of community psychology · 2025Article
- Neighborhood environments and psychological distress 6-years later: results from the San Diego HCHS/SOL community and surrounding areas study.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2025Article
- Neighborhood Violence Exposure and Alcohol and Tobacco Use Initiation Among Ethnic Minority Adolescents.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Uncovering the Biological Toll of Neighborhood Physical Disorder: Links to Metabolic and Inflammatory Biomarkers in Older Adults.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024Article
- Association between snack intake behaviors of children and neighboring women: A population-based cross-sectional analysis with spatial regionalization.SSM - population health · 2024Article
- Neighborhood disadvantage and adolescent behavior problems: how do inferences differ across definitions of disadvantage?Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2024Article
- Neighborhood selection by parent personality, depression, and coparent support: A two-study replication.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2024Article
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Abstract
This paper reviews the magnitude and empirical findings of social epidemiological neighborhood effects research. An electronic keyword literature search identified 1369 empirical and methodological neighborhood effects papers published in 112 relevant journals between 1990 and 2014. Analyses of temporal trends were conducted by focus, journal type (e.g., epidemiology, public health, or social science), and specific epidemiologic journal. Select papers were then critically reviewed. Results show an ever-increasing number of papers published, notably since the year 2000, with the majority published in public health journals. The variety of health outcomes analyzed is extensive, ranging from infectious disease to obesity to criminal behavior. Papers relying on data from experimental designs are thought to yield the most credible results, but such studies are few and findings are inconsistent. Papers relying on data from observational designs and multilevel models typically show small statistically significant effects, but most fail to appreciate fundamental identification problems. Ultimately, of the 1170 empirically focused neighborhood effects papers published in the last 24 years, only a handful have clearly advanced our understanding of the phenomena. The independent impact of neighborhood contexts on health remains unclear. It is time to expand the social epidemiological imagination.
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