{"id":3344,"date":"2017-04-20T05:39:44","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T04:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/?p=3344"},"modified":"2024-05-11T22:33:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T21:33:46","slug":"poor-neighborhoods-youth-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/poor-neighborhoods-youth-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Long exposure to a poor neighborhood in youth is bad for health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study has shown that the duration of exposure to a disadvantaged neighborhood during childhood is linked to poorer health in adult life.<\/p>\n<p>Using data about 1,757 people from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (conducted in the USA from 1970 to 2011), <a href=\"https:\/\/soc.washington.edu\/people\/nicole-kravitz-wirtz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz<\/a> at the University of Michigan found a strong correlation between the average exposure to a poor quality neighborhood between the ages of 1 and 17 and later poor health. Those most exposed were two times more likely to report poor health when aged 18-30 than those least exposed.<\/p>\n<p>Many studies have linked poor neighborhoods with poor health, but this is the first to examine the effects of length of exposure. A number of explanations for the link have been advanced:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lower social capital or less trading of free help and favors within the community.<\/li>\n<li>Less trust and ability to take collective action for the common good.<\/li>\n<li>Fewer resources, including health facilities.<\/li>\n<li>Greater exposure to air pollution, traffic and other physical dangers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The study also found a striking difference in long-term exposure to a poor neighborhood between whites and nonwhites. At the age of 1, 74% of the nonwhites in the sample were living in the most disadvantaged neighborhoods, compared to 16% of white children. At the age of 17, 59% of nonwhites were living in the most disadvantaged areas, compared to 10% of whites. Nonwhite children spent on average 67% of their time living in the most deprived areas, compared to 15% of white children; 61% of nonwhite children lived their entire lives in the most disadvantaged neighborhoods, compared to 13% of whites.<\/p>\n<p>Nonwhites in the sample were more than twice as likely to report poor health between the ages of 18 and 30.<\/p>\n<p>Kravitz-Wirtz recommends paying more attention to creating long-term place-based investments in children and young people in disadvantaged neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<div class=\"retrofit-references\">\n<h4>References<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 1.8em;\"><em> Kravitz-Wirtz N (2016), <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1177\/0022146516671568\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cumulative effects of growing up in separate and unequal neighborhoods on racial disparities in self-rated health in early adulthood<\/a>, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 57.4<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a strong correlation between the average exposure to a poor quality neighborhood between the ages of 1 and 17 and later poor health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":3347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5774,5779,438],"tags":[45,361,25,394,39],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3344"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18114,"href":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344\/revisions\/18114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}