
The Groundbreaking, Formative Work In Spatial Epidemiology -- Now Updated For A New Generation Of Research And Practice In Public Health In 2003, Neighborhoods And Health Codified The Idea That A Neighborhood's Social And Physical Makeup Can Influence The Health Of People Who Live In It. More Than A Decade Later, With The Relationship Between Place And Health Firmly Entrenched At The Center Of How We Understand Public Health (and As Its Own Scientific Discipline, Spatial Epidemiology), This Second Edition Of The Landmark Text Offers Another Giant Leap Forward For The Field. Offering Both A Synthesis Of The Essential Research And A Practical Overview Of The Methods Used To Garner It, The Second Edition Of Neighborhoods And Health Is The Essential Guide To Understanding This Core Component Of Contemporary Population Health -- Both The Journey To Date And What's Next.
This text investigates how the social and physical characteristics of residential environments directly influence the health outcomes of the populations residing within them. Authors Dustin T. Duncan and Ichiro Kawachi synthesize decades of research to establish spatial epidemiology as a rigorous scientific discipline. They provide a comprehensive framework for analyzing how neighborhood-level factors—ranging from socioeconomic status to built environment features—shape individual and community health trajectories.
What You Will Find
Scope Limits
Experts recognize this volume as a foundational text for students and practitioners in public health and urban planning. Readers frequently note the academic density of the prose, which serves as a rigorous reference for those conducting research in social epidemiology.
Page Count:
368
Publication Date:
2018-01-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10:
0190843519
ISBN-13:
9780190843519
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