Street Audits to Measure Neighborhood Disorder: Virtual or In-Person?

ABSTRACT: Neighborhood conditions may influence a broad range of health indicators, including obesity, injury, and psychopathology. In particular, neighborhood physical disorder-a measure of urban deterioration-is thought to encourage crime and high-risk behaviors, leading to poor mental and physical health. In studies to assess neighborhood physical disorder, investigators typically rely on time-consuming and expensive in-person systematic neighborhood audits. We compared 2 audit-based measures of neighborhood physical disorder in the city of Detroit, Michigan: One used Google Street View imagery from 2009 and the other used an in-person survey conducted in 2008. Each measure used spatial interpolation to estimate disorder at unobserved locations. In total, the virtual audit required approximately

SUBMITTER: Mooney SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5860155 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature