Interactive and independent associations between the socioeconomic and objective built environment on the neighbourhood level and individual health: a systematic review of multilevel studies.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The research question how contextual factors of neighbourhood environments influence individual health has gained increasing attention in public health research. Both socioeconomic neighbourhood characteristics and factors of the built environment play an important role for health and health-related behaviours. However, their reciprocal relationships have not been systematically reviewed so far. This systematic review aims to identify studies applying a multilevel modelling approach which consider both neighbourhood socioeconomic position (SEP) and factors of the objective built environment simultaneously in order to disentangle their independent and interactive effects on individual health.

Methods

The three databases PubMed, PsycINFO, and Web of Science were sys

SUBMITTER: Schule SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4388459 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature