Open AccessNeighborhood Environment and Health of Injured Urban Black Men
Author(s) -
Aimee J. Palumbo,
Douglas J. Wiebe,
Nancy KassamAdams,
Therese S. Richmond
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of racial and ethnic health disparities
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.644
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 2197-3792
pISSN - 2196-8837
DOI - 10.1007/s40615-019-00609-5
Subject(s) - mental health , poverty , built environment , public health , gerontology , psychology , health equity , occupational safety and health , odds , social determinants of health , psychological intervention , poison control , environmental health , feeling , suicide prevention , logistic regression , medicine , social psychology , psychiatry , nursing , civil engineering , pathology , engineering , economics , economic growth
Urban black males are at disproportionately high risk of poor health outcomes; thus, we need to measure neighborhood environments appropriately in order to understand aspects of neighborhoods that influence their mental and physical health. We explored associations between physical and mental health of injured, urban black men with objectively measured and perceived neighborhood characteristics.