Neighborhood Disorder and Obesity-Related Outcomes among Women in Chicago.

ABSTRACT: Neighborhood psychosocial stressors like crime and physical disorder may influence obesity-related outcomes through chronic stress or through adverse effects on health behaviors. Google Street View imagery provides a low-cost, reliable method for auditing neighborhood physical disorder, but few studies have examined associations of Street View-derived physical disorder scores with health outcomes. We used Google Street View to audit measures of physical disorder for residential census blocks from 225 women aged 18⁻44 enrolled from 4 Chicago neighborhoods. Latent neighborhood physical disorder scores were estimated using an item response theory model and aggregated to the block group level. Block-group level physical disorder scores and rates of police-recorded crime and 311 calls for servi

SUBMITTER: Mayne SL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6069019 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature