Journal article
Community change and resident needs: Designing a Participatory Action Research study in Metropolitan Boston
Health & place, v 52, pp 221-230
Jul 2018
PMID: 30015179
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Abstract
The health implications of urban development, particularly in rapidly changing, low-income urban neighborhoods, are poorly understood. We describe the Healthy Neighborhoods Study (HNS), a Participatory Action Research study examining the relationship between neighborhood change and population health in nine Massachusetts neighborhoods. Baseline data from the HNS survey show that social factors, specifically income insecurity, food insecurity, social support, experiencing discrimination, expecting to move, connectedness to the neighborhood, and local housing construction that participants believed would improve their lives, identified by a network of 45 Resident Researchers exhibited robust associations with self-rated and mental health. Resident-derived insights into relationships between neighborhoods and health may provide a powerful mechanism for residents to drive change in their communities.
•Participatory Action Research helps clarify links between urban development & health.•social risk factors exhibited robust associations with health.•Resident-derived insights can help drive change in communities.
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- Title
- Community change and resident needs: Designing a Participatory Action Research study in Metropolitan Boston
- Creators
- Mariana C. Arcaya - Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyAlina Schnake-Mahl - Harvard UniversityAndrew Binet - Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyShannon Simpson - Dudley Street Neighborhood InitiativeMaggie Super Church - Conservation Law Foundation, 62 Summer St, Boston, MA 02110, USAVedette Gavin - Conservation Law Foundation, 62 Summer St, Boston, MA 02110, USABill ColemanShoshanna LevineAnnika NielsenLeigh CarrollSanouri UrsprungBen WoodHalley ReevesBarry KeppardNoemie SporticheJessie PartirdgeJose FigueoraAustin FraktMariel AlfonzoDina AbreuTatiana AbreuTrena AmbroiseEric AndradeEduardo BarrientosArnetta BatyCarl BatyKatrina BennerClifton BennettAmy BlanchetteRoseann BongiovanniOlivia CardileCristian CorchadoCaleb DixonCrystal DodsonJuan DominguezMytha DurenaYrma FiestasJosee GentyNicole GraffamAdela GonzalezEmma GrigsbyPatricia HaydenStephanie Hernandez AlvadoZuleyka HernandezIsaac HodesJarred JohnsonKathryn KeefeKrystle LatimerChristina LoggNelson MartinezKhadijah MboupDoug McPhorsonSteve MeachamDaynaba MohammedEmily MossKathleen O'BrienLisa OwensJessie PartridgeLillie Pearl JohnsonMaria Belen PowerTaylee RebeloRonel RemyGail RoderiguesQamar SabtowClarisa SanchezAndrew SeederRamon SepulvedaHlth Neighborhoods Study TeamEmma WestLeah WintersTremayne Youmans
- Publication Details
- Health & place, v 52, pp 221-230
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Urban Health Collaborative; Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000439053800026
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85049426968
- Other Identifier
- 991020099917804721
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- Domestic collaboration
- Web of Science research areas
- Public, Environmental & Occupational Health