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Title Neighbourhood structure and health promotion / Christiane Stock, Anne Ellaway, editors
Published New York : Springer, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 367 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Contents Understanding Health as a Matter of Place -- Neighbourhood Context and Mortality: An Overview -- Area Effects on Behaviour and Lifestyle: The Spatiality of Injustice -- Sociological Perspectives on Neighbourhood Context and Health -- People and Place: The Interrelated Connections Between Interactions, Perceptions and Space -- Measuring and Monitoring Neighbourhood Structure -- Methods to Measure Neighbourhoods and Analyse Their Impact on Health: An Overview -- Access to Health-Promoting Facilities and Amenities -- GIS: A Spatial Turn in the Health Science? -- Using GPS to Measure the Interaction Between Individuals and Their Neighbourhood -- Mathematical Approaches to Analysing Area-Level Effects on Health -- Neighbourhood and Lifestyle -- Vitamin G (Green Spaces and Health): Potential Mechanisms, Policy Implications and Ideas for Further Research -- Socioeconomic Differences in Physical Activity: The Role of Neighbourhood Factors -- Building in Prevention: Nudging Towards Physical Activity and Public Health -- Rethinking Exposure in Area Studies on Social Inequities in Smoking in Youth and Young Adults -- Neighbourhood Structure and Alcohol and Other Drug Use: Implications for Prevention -- Neighbourhoods and Healthy Nutrition -- School Neighbourhoods and Obesity Prevention in Youth -- Connecting Gender, Space and Place: Are There Gender Differences in the Relationships Between the Social Environment and Health-Related Behaviours? -- From Neighbourhood and Health Research to Health Promotion Practice
Summary It has long been theorized that people living in poor areas have more health problems than their more advantaged peers. More recently, science has been testing this hypothesis, concentrating on the impact of the built environment on well-being and its contribution to health inequities. Neighbourhood Structure and Health Promotion offers sociology-based theory and evidence-based findings so readers may better understand the effects of place on health choices, behaviour, and outcomes. This international volume analyzes the complex relationships among neighbourhood conditions and characteristics,
Analysis Medicine
Regional planning
Developmental psychology
Medicine & Public Health
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Health promotion.
Public health.
Neighborhoods -- Health aspects
Health Promotion
Public Health
Residence Characteristics -- classification
public health.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Healthy Living.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference.
MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine.
Médecine.
Health promotion
Public health
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
Author Stock, C. (Christiane)
Ellaway, Anne.
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