American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 155, No. 6 : 516-519
Copyright © 2002 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health
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Invited Commentary: Places, People, and Health
From the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, Division of General Medicine, 622 West 168th Street, PH9 East Room 105, New York, NY 10032 (e-mail: ad290@columbia.edu).
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A growing body of research in epidemiology and public health has examined how characteristics of the places where people live are related to a variety of health outcomes, including health-related behaviors (1
–4), prevalence and incidence of disease (5–7), and mortality (3, 8–13). The paper by Balfour and Kaplan (14) in this issue of the Journal examines how neighborhood characteristics are related to functional loss in the elderly. The fact that health varies across geographic locations is well-established (15). The assumed explanation for these geographic differences (particularly in the modern era of epidemiology, with its emphasis on individual-level risk factors) has usually been that areas differ because of the characteristics of the people who live in them. In recent years, however, there has been renewed interest among social scientists in the ways in which neighborhood contexts may affect individual-level outcomes (16, |
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