Influence of the residential environment on undergraduate students' health.

ABSTRACT: University campuses represent an opportunity to advance the understanding of how the built environment influences health. We used de-identified billing codes from a private university clinic serving undergraduate students for academic years 2008 through 2012 linked to students' residential history and demographic information. We used a two-stage, hierarchical regression model to study the differences in the reported prevalence of diagnostic groups by dorm and the association between building characteristics and disease incidence rates. We found significant differences in the prevalence of mental health (MH), upper respiratory infections (URI) and substance abuse between freshmen and upperclassmen. In addition, we found systematic differences in the relative rates of URI and MH diagnoses ac

SUBMITTER: Cedeno Laurent JG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7044021 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature