How Neighborhoods Influence Health: Lessons to be learned from the application of political ecology

This paper articulates how political ecology can be a useful tool for asking fundamental questions and applying relevant methods to investigate structures that impact relationship between neighborhood and health. Through a narrative analysis, we identify how political ecology can develop our future...

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Published inHealth & place Vol. 45; pp. 117 - 123
Main Authors Chitewere, Tendai, Shim, Janet K., Barker, Judith C., Yen, Irene H.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Elsevier Ltd 01.05.2017
Elsevier Science Ltd
Subjects
Clinical outcomes
Ecological monitoring
Ecology
Ecology - methods
Economics
Health disparities
Health Status
Health technology assessment
Humans
Medical research
Neighborhood
Neighborhoods
Political ecology
Political economy
Politics
Residence Characteristics
Social Support
Socioeconomic Factors
Well being
Political ecology
Neighborhood
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Summary:This paper articulates how political ecology can be a useful tool for asking fundamental questions and applying relevant methods to investigate structures that impact relationship between neighborhood and health. Through a narrative analysis, we identify how political ecology can develop our future agendas for neighborhood-health research as it relates to social, political, environmental, and economic structures. Political ecology makes clear the connection between political economy and neighborhood by highlighting the historical and structural processes that produce and maintain social inequality, which affect health and well-being. These concepts encourage researchers to examine how people construct neighborhood and health in different ways that, in turn, can influence different health outcomes and, thus, efforts to address solutions.
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ISSN:1353-8292
1873-2054
DOI:10.1016/j.healthplace.2017.03.009