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Does It Matter Where You Live? Neighborhoods and Health
Barbara Entwisle, Kenan Professor, Department of Sociology; and Director, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
| What | MPC Seminar Series |
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September 28, 2009 12:15 PM
September 28, 2009 01:15 PM
September 28, 2009 from 12:15 pm to 01:15 pm |
| Where | MPC Seminar Room, 50 Willey Hall |
| Contact Phone | 612-624-8806 |
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Abstract: Places –local social and spatial contexts – influence nearly all aspects of people's lives, not least of which is their health. Obviously a family's economic disadvantage impacts the health of its members, but does living in a poor neighborhood disadvantage residents above and beyond family factors? If so how? Attempts at answering this and related questions have inspired a vast literature on neighborhoods and health. However, the conceptual frameworks, data sources, and statistical machinery prominent today were mostly in place two decades ago. Progress requires a new perspective on the interconnection of people and places, the incorporation of an explicit spatial as well as social perspective, and the innovative use of spatial data and tools. Each of these will be illustrated with respect to developments in the National Children's Study, a major longitudinal study of environment and children's health.
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