The ecology of unhealthy places: Violence, birthweight, and the importance of territoriality in structurally disadvantaged communities

RJ Kane - Social Science & Medicine, 2011 - Elsevier
The present study tested the relationships between macro-level violence and birthweight in
structurally disadvantaged communities in the District of Columbia. The study hypothesized …

Exposure to violence, neighborhood context, and health-related outcomes in low-income urban mothers

X Huang, C King, J McAtee - Health & place, 2018 - Elsevier
Exposure to violence in youths has been associated with negative health outcomes, yet
evidence of such in adults is limited. Additionally, it is unknown whether these negative …

Collateral consequences of violence in disadvantaged neighborhoods

DJ Harding - Social forces, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Using data from Add Health, this study investigates the role of neighborhood
violence in mediating the effects of neighborhood disadvantage on high school graduation …

Neighborhoods and violent crime

RJ Sampson, SW Raudenbush… - Community health equity: a …, 2019 - degruyter.com
For most of this century, social scientists have observed marked vari-ations in rates of
criminal violence across neighborhoods of US cities. Violence has been associated with the …

Ecological change, changes in violence, and risk prediction

RB Taylor, J Covington - Journal of interpersonal Violence, 1990 - journals.sagepub.com
The article summarizes recent research linking changes in a neighborhood's position in the
overall urban mosaic with changes in violence. Baltimore neighborhoods in the 1970s …

Urban violence and African-American pregnancy outcome: an ecologic study

JW Collins, RJ David - Ethnicity & disease, 1997 - JSTOR
Objectives: To ascertain the extent to which residence in violent communities is an
independent risk factor for adverse pregnancy outcomes among impoverished (census tract …

Economic distress, community context and intimate violence: An application and extension of social disorganization theory, final report

ML Benson, GL Fox - Washington, DC: US Department of Justice, National …, 2002 - ojp.gov
Completed in 1988, the first wave of the NSFH included interviews with a probability sample
of 13,007 adult respondents representing 9,637 households. In wave 2, completed in 1994 …

Neighborhood violence and its association with mothers' health: assessing the relative importance of perceived safety and exposure to violence

SL Johnson, BS Solomon, WC Shields… - Journal of urban …, 2009 - Springer
This paper presents a cross-sectional study examining the influence of neighborhood
violence on multiple aspects of mothers' health. While the influence of neighborhood …

Neighborhood mechanisms and the spatial dynamics of birth weight

JD Morenoff - American journal of sociology, 2003 - journals.uchicago.edu
This study addresses two questions about why neighborhood contexts matter for individuals
via a multilevel, spatial analysis of birth weight for 101,662 live births within 342 Chicago …

A model of underlying socioeconomic vulnerability in human populations: evidence from variability in population health and implications for public health

S Galea, J Ahern, A Karpati - Social science & medicine, 2005 - Elsevier
Drawing from insights into the variability of complex biologic systems we propose that the
health of human populations reflects the interrelationship between underlying vulnerabilities …