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ReviewCurrent topics in behavioral neurosciences2024

Area-level Measures of the Social Environment: Operationalization, Pitfalls, and Ways Forward.

Marco Helbich, Yi Zeng, Abeed Sarker

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Review in Current topics in behavioral neurosciences, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Marco HelbichDepartment of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands. M.Helbich@uu.nl.
Yi ZengDepartment of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Abeed SarkerEmory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

People's mental health is intertwined with the social environment in which they reside. This chapter explores approaches for quantifying the area-level social environment, focusing specifically on socioeconomic deprivation and social fragmentation. We discuss census data and administrative units, egocentric and ecometric approaches, neighborhood audits, social media data, and street view-based assessments. We close the chapter by discussing possible paths forward from associations between social environments and health to establishing causality, including longitudinal research designs and time-series social environmental indices.

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Social EnvironmentHumansMental HealthNeighborhood CharacteristicsResidence CharacteristicsSocial MediaSocioeconomic FactorsArea-level measuresMental healthSocial environmentSocial fragmentationSocioeconomic deprivation

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