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SynthesisJournal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine2020

Gentrification, Neighborhood Change, and Population Health: a Systematic Review.

Alina S Schnake-Mahl, Jaquelyn L Jahn, S V Subramanian, Mary C Waters, Mariana Arcaya

Abstract readSystematic Review
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Synthesis in Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 80 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

80 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Alina S Schnake-MahlDepartment of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA. Alinasmahl@mail.harvard.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-4939-1554
Jaquelyn L JahnDepartment of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
S V SubramanianHarvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Mary C WatersDepartment of Sociology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Mariana ArcayaDepartment of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite a proliferation of research on neighborhood effects on health, how neighborhood economic development, in the form of gentrification, affects health and well-being in the USA is poorly understood, and no systematic assessment of the potential health impacts has been conducted. Further, we know little about whether health impacts differ for residents of neighborhoods undergoing gentrification versus urban development, or other forms of neighborhood socioeconomic ascent. We followed current guidelines for systematic reviews and present data on the study characteristics of the 22 empirical articles that met our inclusion criteria and were published on associations between gentrification, and similar but differently termed processes (e.g., urban regeneration, urban development, neighborhood upgrading), and health published between 2000 and 2018. Our results show that impacts on health vary by outcome assessed, exposure measurement, the larger context-specific determinants of neighborhood change, and analysis decisions including which reference and treatment groups to examine. Studies of the health impacts of gentrification, urban development, and urban regeneration describe similar processes, and synthesis and comparison of their results helps bridge differing theoretical approaches to this emerging research. Our article helps to inform the debate on the impacts of gentrification and urban development for health and suggests that these neighborhood change processes likely have both detrimental and beneficial effects on health. Given the influence of place on health and the trend of increasing gentrification and urban development in many American cities, we discuss how future research can approach understanding and researching the impacts of these processes for population health.

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CitiesHumansKnowledgePopulation HealthResidence CharacteristicsSocial ChangeSocioeconomic FactorsUrban RenewalGentrificationHealthNeighborhoodSocial determinants of healthSystematic reviewUrban developmentUrban health

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PMID31938975
PMCPMC7010901

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