Promoting health equity: Role of perceived neighborhood built environment in rural community resilience to pandemics.

ABSTRACT: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has highlighted how socioeconomic disparities exacerbate rural health inequalities, demanding enhanced rural community resilience in socioeconomic dimensions. While cross-sectional nonpandemic evidence supports the impacts of the perceived neighborhood built environment (NBE) on these dimensions, whether the NBE influences these dimensions in a pandemic context and their potential two-way correlations remain unclear. Herein, we use a cross-lagged analysis of Chinese longitudinal data to investigate the associations between the perceived NBE and these dimensions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our results indicate that rural communities with better prepandemic NBE perceptions generally exhibit greater socioeconomic resilience during the pandemi

SUBMITTER: Dong X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12146531 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature