FRHD 3090 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Asthma, Local Purchasing, Deindustrialization

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 3090
• Professor: Michelle Preyde

Document Summary

Differenecs between mortality and morbdy of neighbourhoods are widening. Health in some areas are worse than others. Many studies on neighbourhood environment and health: ecological studiesrelate population characteristics an dpopulation health, individual studies relae perceptions of local envi to healt, multilevel studies which combine neighbourhoods level data with individual health. Need to tease out contextual and compositional explanations for neighbourhood differences. When studying neighbourhoods you need to decidehow he neighbourhoods are going to be operationalized and hwere the boundatres are. Economic, social relational,service, and pjyscial aspects of the neighbourhood are important for health. Economic factors like concentrated deprivation, de-industrialization and unemployment rate have received the most attentionin the empirical literatureincrese of likelihood of smoking as deprivation in the local area increases. Residents in the mosy deprived areas are about 1. 8 times as likely ot smoke as those in least deprived areas. Social relational factors include soial capitl, social cohesion and social control.