Examining mediators of housing mobility on adolescent asthma: results from a housing voucher experiment.

ABSTRACT: Literature on neighborhood effects on health largely employs non-experimental study designs and does not typically test specific neighborhood mediators that influence health. We address these gaps using the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) housing voucher experiment. Research has documented both beneficial and adverse effects on health in MTO, but mediating mechanisms have not been tested explicitly. We tested mediation of MTO effects on youth asthma (n = 2829). MTO randomized families living in public housing to an experimental group receiving a voucher to subsidize rental housing, or a control group receiving no voucher, and measured outcomes 4-7 years following randomization. MTO had a harmful main effect vs. controls for self-reported asthma diagnosis (b = 0.24, p = 0.06), past-year asthma

SUBMITTER: Schmidt NM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4070421 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature