A brief observational measure for urban neighborhoods
A brief observational measure for urban neighborhoods
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DOI：
10.1016/s1353-8292(01)00012-0
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发表时间：
2001-09-01
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影响因子：
4.8
通讯作者：
Patterson, J
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作者：
Caughy, MO;O'Campo, PJ;Patterson, J
人们越来越认识到，除了个人特征和健康行为之外，邻里环境对居民的健康和福祉也有贡献。然而，很少有已发表的报告提出了记录邻里特征的方法，这些方法可以用最少的资源支出轻松管理。在本文中，我们提出了一种与家庭和儿童的健康和福祉相关的城市社区的简要观察方法的发展。来自社会经济多样化的城市社区群体的数据被用来创建有理论依据的社区环境衡量标准，并证明了这些衡量标准在区分城市社区之间和城市社区内部的效用。 (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. 保留所有权利。
There is growing recognition that neighborhood context contributes to the health and well-being of residents over and above individual characteristics and health behaviors. However, few published reports exist of methods for documenting neighborhood characteristics which are easily administered with minimal outlay of resources. In this paper, we present the development of a brief observational method for urban neighborhoods relevant to the health and well-being of families and children. Data from a socieconomically diverse group of urban neighborhoods are used to create theoretically grounded measures of neighborhood context, and the utility of these measures for discriminating between and within urban neighborhoods is demonstrated. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.