Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Alexandra Mendoza-Graf, Sarah MacCarthy, Rebecca Collins, La'Vette Wagner, Tamara Dubowitz
Summary: Gentrification can have both positive and negative impacts on the health and wellbeing of existing residents, bringing improvements to neighborhoods but also disruptive changes.
Article
Peripheral Vascular Disease
Oluwasegun P. P. Akinyelure, Byron C. C. Jaeger, Suzanne Oparil, April P. P. Carson, Monika M. M. Safford, George Howard, Paul Muntner, Shakia T. T. Hardy
Summary: This study analyzed data to determine the impact of social determinants of health on the higher proportion of Black adults with uncontrolled blood pressure. Factors such as low education, low income, living in a health professional shortage area, disadvantaged neighborhood, and high-poverty zip code contribute to this disparity.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Ella O'Neill, Helen V. S. Cole, Melissa Garcia-Lamarca, Isabelle Anguelovski, Pedro Gullon, Margarita Triguero-Mas
Summary: Research suggests that the poor quality of physical and social-environmental conditions can impact mental health. However, redevelopment/regeneration projects aimed at improving the physical environment can trigger gentrification and worsen mental health outcomes for long-term residents. This study explores the mechanisms through which poor mental health persists despite the implementation of such projects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE
(2023)
Article
Urban Studies
Giuseppe Tolfo, Brian Doucet
Summary: This article investigates the different interpretations of livability in different neighborhoods in the City of Vancouver. It argues that these interpretations can lead to policy changes and gentrification when land is shifted from one planning area to another. The article also discusses how the discourse of livability justifies dispossession by selectively omitting the past. The author suggests that planners and scholars should center conflict and displacement in their analysis of livability and build stronger ties with community activists.
Review
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Sun Delong
Summary: The impacts of changing neighborhoods and neighborhood stability on residents' health, with a focus on gentrification, have been increasingly studied in recent years, primarily in North America. This analysis of 66 papers examines the research design, theoretical framework, analysis methods, definition and measurement of gentrification effects, and impact pathways. Most of the literature in this field uses an ecological research design, with a large proportion being cross-sectional research. The effects of gentrification on health outcomes vary in direction and strength due to differences in population, time, and geography. Gentrification can influence health outcomes through a combination of economic, social, and physical environmental factors. Future research could improve by refining the definition and measurement of gentrification, expanding the scope of health outcomes, using longitudinal research design, and addressing theoretical frameworks to link various aspects of gentrification research.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Marta M. Bruce, Connie M. Ulrich, Jessica Webster, Therese S. Richmond
Summary: This study describes Black men's perceptions of how characteristics of their environment affect their recovery following serious injury. The findings emphasize the importance of community resources in supporting injured men's recovery within their neighborhoods, and highlight the need for additional resources to be directed towards survivors who return to disadvantaged communities after injury.
SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Amy J. Youngbloom, Benoit Thierry, Daniel Fuller, Yan Kestens, Meghan Winters, Jana A. Hirsch, Yvonne L. Michael, Caislin Firth
Summary: Research suggests that surveys provide a better understanding of how residents perceive neighborhood change and its impact on mental health, compared to census-defined measures of gentrification. Individual perceptions of neighborhood change may determine the effects of gentrification on mental health. Findings from a survey in Montre & PRIME;al indicate that greater perceived affordability and positive feelings about neighborhood changes are associated with better mental health. However, census-defined gentrification is not significantly associated with mental health.
SSM-POPULATION HEALTH
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Jose Pedro Silva, Claudia Jardim Santos, Ema Torres, Lucia Martinez-Manrique, Henrique Barros, Ana Isabel Ribeiro
Summary: Gentrification is influencing the urban environment and the health of its residents, although the specific impacts are still unclear. This study in Porto, Portugal examined the relationship between gentrification and health, using photovoice to gather participants' perspectives. The analysis revealed six themes related to gentrification, including population changes, housing access, local commerce, and socioeconomic change, which impact health in various ways.
SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE
(2023)
Review
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Tiffany M. Powell-Wiley, Yvonne Baumer, Foster Osei Baah, Andrew S. Baez, Nicole Farmer, Christa T. Mahlobo, Mario A. Pita, Kameswari A. Potharaju, Kosuke Tamura, Gwenyth R. Wallen
Summary: Social determinants of health have a significant impact on the development of cardiovascular disease and its outcomes, but their influence is not fully understood. This review aims to further investigate the relationship between social determinants of health and cardiovascular disease, and provide a framework for future research and interventions.
CIRCULATION RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Environmental Studies
John Nagle
Summary: This article explores the creation and erasure of Queerspaces in Beirut, highlighting how commercial Queerspaces are integrated into neoliberal and sectarian states while 'Queer unwanted' spaces and individuals are violently removed. By drawing on testimonies of LGBTQ activists in Beirut, the study reveals how they are advocating for radical intersectional politics in recent anti-sectarian protests.
Article
Environmental Studies
Churn Tsang, Lin-Fang Hsu
Summary: Through a case study of the Kwun Tong Town Centre (KTTC) project in Hong Kong, this research reveals that the redevelopment led by the Urban Renewal Authority (URA) is a state-led and socially-oriented process that differs from generic gentrification. Despite the appearance of state-led gentrification, the KTTC redevelopment was supported by the local community and aimed at addressing environmental and housing issues in the area.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Sharon Goldfeld, Karen Villanueva, Robert Tanton, Ilan Katz, Sally Brinkman, Billie Giles-Corti, Geoffrey Woolcock
Summary: This paper presents the final findings of the Kids in Communities Study (KiCS), which aimed to understand community-level effects on early childhood development. The study identified the need for more evidence to inform policy and practice changes, and proposed a set of 'Foundational Community Factors' for improving outcomes for young children.
Review
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Helen V. S. Cole, Isabelle Anguelovski, Margarita Triguero-Mas, Roshanak Mehdipanah, Mariana Arcaya
Summary: Public health researchers are concerned about the impact of gentrification on population health and health equity, with an increasing number of publications exploring the effects of gentrification on health. Qualitative evidence suggests that gentrification processes contribute to health inequities, although there are methodological challenges and mixed quantitative results. Integrating the study of gentrification with public health research requires an interdisciplinary approach, considering measurement techniques and conceptualization. Policy approaches to mitigate and prevent gentrification can be evaluated for their effectiveness in promoting health equity.
ANNUAL REVIEW OF PUBLIC HEALTH
(2023)
Article
Environmental Studies
Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana
Summary: Previous studies indicate that middle-income Americans are more likely to move to predominantly white, low-income neighborhoods rather than predominantly black or Latino neighborhoods. Racial composition influences the type of gentrification a neighborhood experiences and whether it results in racial changes.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Monica F. Kvorning, Siv S. Nygaard, Abirami Srivarathan, Cathrine J. Lau, Rikke Lund
Summary: This study examines the demographics, social relations, and health in a socially diverse housing area undergoing structural changes and compares it to a neighboring municipality. The study also explores the relationship between social relations and self-rated health, as well as the interaction with country of origin in both populations. The results show that the social housing area has a higher percentage of residents reporting poor self-rated health compared to the municipality. Low contact frequency and weak social support are associated with poor self-rated health in both populations, but the association is stronger in the social housing area among residents with non-Western origin.
Article
Psychiatry
Lilah M. Besser, Gina S. Lovasi, Yvonne L. Michael, Parveen Garg, Jana A. Hirsch, David Siscovick, Phil Hurvitz, Mary L. Biggs, James E. Galvin, Traci M. Bartz, W. T. Longstreth
Summary: This study suggests a possible association between greater neighborhood greenspace and less ventricular enlargement, a measure reflecting global brain atrophy. However, no associations were observed between greenspace and other MRI outcome measures, and there was no evidence of effect modification by APOE genotype and sex. Further research in other longitudinal cohort studies is needed to confirm these findings.
SOCIAL PSYCHIATRY AND PSYCHIATRIC EPIDEMIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Dana M. Alhasan, Jana A. Hirsch, Chandra L. Jackson, Maggi C. Miller, Bo Cai, Matthew C. Lohman
Summary: This study found that caregivers living in low or medium income neighborhoods experienced higher psychological distress, suggesting that neighborhood characteristics may amplify other social stressors experienced by caregivers.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
Lilah M. Besser, Lun-Ching Chang, Kelly R. Evenson, Jana A. Hirsch, Yvonne L. Michael, James E. Galvin, Stephen R. Rapp, Annette L. Fitzpatrick, Susan R. Heckbert, Joel D. Kaufman, Timothy M. Hughes
Summary: Research indicates that neighborhood park access is associated with maintaining/improving late-life cognitive abilities, with potential variations in this association based on race.
JOURNAL OF ALZHEIMERS DISEASE
(2021)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Jessica Whitley, Jana A. Hirsch, Kari A. Moore, Steven J. Melly, Heather Rollins, Raynard Washington
Summary: Profound geographic health disparities exist in many US cities, and most reporting on these disparities is based on predetermined administrative districts. We undertook a ranking project in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to describe health at the neighborhood level, finding clusters of neighborhoods with low rankings in certain regions. Our methods can serve as a model for other cities to create and communicate data on within-city geographic health disparities.
PREVENTING CHRONIC DISEASE
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Leah H. Schinasi, Helen V. S. Cole, Jana A. Hirsch, Ghassan B. Hamra, Pedro Gullon, Felicia Bayer, Steven J. Melly, Kathryn M. Neckerman, Jane E. Clougherty, Gina S. Lovasi
Summary: The study found modest associations between greenspace and gentrification trends, with high greenspace percentage areas potentially leading to increases in the proportion of population engaged in professional jobs and median household income. However, this association varied across different metropolitan statistical areas, and the effect almost disappeared in the period from 2000 to 2010.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
(2021)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Ke Peng, Daniel A. Rodriguez, Jana A. Hirsch, Penny Gordon-Larsen
Summary: This study aimed to consider the interrelated characteristics of food-related neighborhood environments and explore the relationship between neighborhood type and the availability of sit-down restaurants and supermarkets. The classification of neighborhood type based on sociodemographic and built environment characteristics resulted in a complex and increasingly varied distribution of restaurants and food stores.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH GEOGRAPHICS
(2021)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Parveen K. Garg, Jonathan M. Platt, Jana A. Hirsch, Philip Hurvitz, Andrew Rundle, Mary Lou Biggs, Bruce M. Psaty, Kari Moore, Gina S. Lovasi
Summary: This study found that an increase in walking destinations and physical activity/recreational facilities within a 5-km radius of the home was associated with a decreased risk of cardiovascular disease. Improving the availability of physical activity resources in neighborhoods may be an important strategy for lowering CVD.
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Gina S. Lovasi, Norman J. Johnson, Sean F. Altekruse, Jana A. Hirsch, Kari A. Moore, Janene R. Brown, Andrew G. Rundle, James W. Quinn, Kathryn Neckerman, David S. Siscovick
Summary: This study investigated the association between healthy food retail presence and cardiovascular mortality, but did not find a significant relationship. The presence of healthy food retail was not associated with reduced cardiovascular mortality, while unhealthy food retail presence was linked to higher all-cause mortality.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Lilah M. Besser, Lun-Ching Chang, Jana A. Hirsch, Daniel A. Rodriguez, John Renne, Stephen R. Rapp, Annette L. Fitzpatrick, Susan R. Heckbert, Joel D. Kaufman, Timothy M. Hughes
Summary: This study found a potential association between greater neighborhood walking destinations and maintained/improved processing speed in older age, with no strong evidence of associations between other neighborhood built environment characteristics and cognition. Physical activity minutes per week did not mediate the association between walking destination density and processing speed change.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
(2021)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Jingjing Li, Amy H. Auchincloss, Jana A. Hirsch, Steven J. Melly, Kari A. Moore, Adam Peterson, Brisa N. Sanchez
Summary: By employing a longitudinal distributed lag modeling approach, we systematically estimated the decay of associations between built environment features and transport walking as distance from home to destinations increased. Results showed that availability of walking destinations within specific distances were associated with transport walking, highlighting the need for flexible methods to estimate associations in different contexts. This new information will aid policymakers in understanding how different types of built environment destinations influence transport walking and guide interventions and facility placements.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Jana A. Hirsch, Yuzhe Zhao, Steven Melly, Kari A. Moore, Nicolas Berger, James Quinn, Andrew Rundle, Gina S. Lovasi
Summary: This study examines national disparities in retail food environments across different neighborhoods in terms of race/ethnicity and socio-economic status. The findings show that non-White and low-income communities have more unhealthy food sources, and this disparity has been increasing over time. There is an inverse relationship between income and access to food stores, although the gap has been narrowing over time.
PUBLIC HEALTH NUTRITION
(2023)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Jana A. Hirsch, Yvonne L. Michael, Kari A. Moore, Steven Melly, Timothy M. Hughes, Kathleen Hayden, Jose A. Luchsinger, Marcia P. Jimenez, Peter James, Lilah M. Besser, Brisa Sanchez, Ana V. Diez Roux
Summary: This study aims to identify patterns of neighborhood change associated with prevalence and disparities in cognitive decline and dementia. Extensive neighborhood data will be collected and linked to the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis, and statistical techniques and deep learning algorithms will be applied to examine the associations between neighborhood environmental characteristics and cognition outcomes. The study will also explore the determinants of disparities in outcomes by socioeconomic position and race/ethnicity.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Justin Guan, Jana A. Hirsch, Loni Philip Tabb, Teresa A. Hillier, Yvonne L. Michael
Summary: Cross-sectional evidence suggests that the built environment can encourage walking among older adults. This study examined the associations between objectively measured built environment and changes in self-reported walking among older women. The findings showed that an increase of 1 km in the distance to the closest bus stop was associated with a 12% decrease in the total number of blocks walked per week during follow-up. However, the study provided limited support for the association between neighborhood transportation and walking changes among older women. Future studies should consider examining both objective measures and perceptions of the built environment.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Andrew G. Rundle, Kathryn M. Neckerman, Suzanne E. Judd, Natalie Colabianchi, Kari A. Moore, James W. Quinn, Jana A. Hirsch, Gina S. Lovasi
Summary: This study provides additional longitudinal evidence that residential neighborhood features that support pedestrian activity are associated with lower adiposity.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Gabriela Vatavuk-Serrati, Kiarri N. Kershaw, Daniela Sotres-Alvarez, Krista M. Perreira, Jenny S. Guadamuz, Carmen R. Isasi, Jana A. Hirsch, Linda V. Van Horn, Martha L. Daviglus, Sandra S. Albrecht
Summary: The study found that Hispanic/Latino immigrant segregation is associated with healthier diet habits, particularly among immigrants. These results highlight the potential role of Hispanic/Latino immigrant neighborhoods in supporting healthy diets among residents.
JOURNAL OF THE ACADEMY OF NUTRITION AND DIETETICS
(2023)
