The role of the neighbourhood environment in shaping the mental health consequences of Covid-19

这项拟议研究的目的是测试社区环境的特征在多大程度上缓和了与冠状病毒大流行相关的心理健康后果。毫无疑问，任何心理健康影响都将部分由个人特征决定，但我们也假设，由于周围环境的不同，人们的脆弱性也会有所不同。我们的出发点是了解社会（UKHLS），这是一项收集与人们心理健康有关的在线数据的调查。我们可以在封锁之前、期间和之后跟踪人们的心理健康状况，并确实长期监测人们的心理健康状况。我们将把记录个人心理健康的纵向家庭调查数据集与社区背景信息（例如经济和社会剥夺、人口密度、环境资本、卫生服务等）在空间上联系起来。这将使我们能够确定是什么使一些社区比其他社区产生更好的结果。最终，我们的研究将有助于确定最容易受到冠状病毒大流行影响的人群，并制定旨在保护人们心理健康的基于地方的政策干预措施。

The aim of this proposed research is to test to what extent features of the neighbourhood environment moderates the mental health consequences associated with the coronaviruspandemic. While undoubtedly any mental health impact will be partly shaped by individual characteristics, we also posit that there will be differential vulnerability across people due to their neighbourhood environment.Our starting point is Understanding Society (UKHLS), a survey which collects online data relating to people's mental health. We can track people's mental health before, during and after the lockdown, and indeed monitor the mental health on an ongoing long-term basis. We will spatially link our longitudinal household survey datasets recording individuals' mental health with neighbourhood contextual information, for example, economic and social deprivation, population density, environmental capital, health services etc. This will allow us to identify what makes some neighbourhoods produce better outcomes than others. Ultimately, our research will help in identifying those most vulnerable to the coronavirus pandemic and in formulating place based policy interventions aimed at protecting people's mental health.