Neighborhoods and health / edited by Ichiro Kawachi, Lisa F. Berkman.
Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003Description: xiii, 352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0195138384
- 9780195138382
- Neighbourhoods and health
- 362.12 21
- RA427 .N454 2003
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | North Campus North Campus Main Collection | 362.12 NEI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A326419B |
Acquisitions record.
Format: Hardback.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction / Ichiro Kawachi and Lisa F. Berkman -- 2. Neighborhoods and Health: An Overview / Sally Macintyre and Anne Ellaway -- 3. The Examination of Neighborhood Effects on Health: Conceptual and Methodological Issues Related to the Presence of Multiple Levels of Prganization / Ana V. Diez-Roux -- 4. Multilevel Methods for Public Health Research / S. V. Subramanian, Kelvyn Jones and Craig Duncan -- 5. The Quantitative Assessment of Neighborhood Social Environments / Stephen W. Raudenbush -- 6. Neighborhood-Level Context and Health: Lessons from Sociology / Robert J. Sampson -- 7. Geocoding and Measurement of Neighborhood Socioeconomic Position: A U.S. Perspective / Nancy Krieger, Sally Zierler, Joseph W. Hogan, Pamela Waterman, Jarvis Chen, Kerry Lemieux and Annie Gjelsvik -- 8. Area-Based Deprivation Measures: A U.K. Perspective / David Gordon -- 9. Neighborhoods and Infectious Diseases / Mindy Thompson Fullilove -- 10. Infant Health: Race, Risk, and Residence / James W. Collins, Jr. and Nancy Fisher Schulte -- 11. Putting Asthma into Context: Community Influences on Risk, Behavior, and Intervention / Rosalind J. Wright and Edwin B. Fischer -- 12. Residential Segregation and Health / Dolores Acevedo-Garcia and Kimberly A. Lochner -- 13. Neighborhoods and Networks: The Construction of Safe Places and Bridges / Lisa F. Berkman and Cheryl Clark -- 14. Neighborhoods, Aging, and Functional Limitations / Thomas A. Glass and Jennifer L. Balfour -- 15. Neighborhoods, Health Research, and Its Relevance to Public Policy / Jody Heymann and Aron Fischer.
Do places make a difference to people's health and well-being? This book presents a state-of-the-art account of the theories, methods, and empirical evidence linking neighbourhood conditions to population health.
Postgraduate.
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