ArticleIsrael journal of health policy research2025
Perceived neighborhood disadvantage and poor chronic health in Israel.
Article in Israel journal of health policy research, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
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backgroundSocial disparities in health persist in Israel despite universal health care. Few studies have focused on the impact of neighborhood disadvantage on health in a representative sample of the Israeli population while accounting for multiple socioeconomic factors. The objective of this study was to assess the independent association between perceived neighborhood disadvantage and self-reported poor chronic health.
methodsSelf-reported poor chronic health was defined as (1) reported not very good/poor health, and (2) having a chronic health/physical problem for > = 6 months disrupting daily life activities. Neighborhood disadvantage was based on self-reported measures of residential environment (scale of dissatisfaction with transportation, parks, cleanliness, waste removal, noise, pollution, safety, and walkability) and social problems (dissatisfaction related to neighbors, and neighbors interacting to improve the environment). High levels of neighborhood problems were defined as top 25th percentile of dissatisfaction scales. Logistic regression models included incremental adjustment for sex, age, ethnicity/religion, immigration status, peripheral region and then income, education and employment status.
resultsA total of n = 7,020 participants with non-missing data were included. High levels of neighborhood environmental and social problems were independently associated with poor chronic health even after adjustment for sex, age, ethnicity/religion, immigration status, and peripheral region, and remained statistically significant after additionally adjusting for income, education, employment and lifestyle factors (odds ratio (OR) 1.5, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.2-1.9 for environmental problems; OR 1.3, 95% CI 1.1-1.6 for social problems).
conclusionsLiving in areas of perceived disadvantage conferred health risks beyond those related to ethnicity or socioeconomic status. These findings suggest that neighborhood-level factors contribute significantly to health disparities in Israel and should be included in national efforts to evaluate and minimize these health disparities. Future research is needed to also consider objective measures of neighborhood disadvantage, in order to determine the more salient neighborhood measures with respect to health outcomes and to effectively develop targeted interventions to reduce area-level health disparities.
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