Illuminating the lifecourse of place in the longitudinal study of neighbourhoods and health

Lekkas, Peter; Paquet, Catherine; Daniel, Mark

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.09.025

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“…Most recently, there has been a call for new conceptual and methodological work that examines the dynamic histories of places and the implications of this temporal evolution for geographies of health and well‐being (Lekkas et al., ; Pearce, ). This organising framework has been labelled the “life course of place” (Pearce, ; Pearce, Mitchell & Shortt, ).…”

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“…To date, most studies of health and place have relied on crosssectional analyses, and there are very few empirical studies of how geographical circumstances early in life influence subsequent health outcomes, particularly those later in life. Single point-in-time analyses may overlook processes of change or resilience that embed more contemporary health and inequalities within these locales (Lekkas et al, 2017). This issue is likely to be particularly problematic for health outcomes with long latency periods between environmental exposure and disease onset or with complex associations between environment, behaviour and response that may become habitual over time.Most recently, there has been a call for new conceptual and methodological work that examines the dynamic histories of places and the implications of this temporal evolution for geographies of health and well-being (Lekkas et al, 2017;Pearce, 2015).…”

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Life course of place: A longitudinal study of mental health and place

Pearce

Cherrie

Shortt

et al. 2018

Trans Inst British Geog

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A multitude of studies have demonstrated that individual circumstances throughout life influence subsequent health and well‐being outcomes. The life‐course perspective emphasises that health is affected by the accumulation of social and economic (dis)advantages over an individual's life but, importantly, also that there can be critical periods where the effects of exposure can be greater. Yet few researchers have applied a life‐course perspective to the study of health and place, which has resulted in a partial understanding of the dynamics of person–health–place relations. By explicitly recognising that places are spatial‐temporal products, and applying a novel longitudinal life‐course approach, this study examines the opportunities for incorporating aspects of place into a life‐course framework. The focus is the influence of neighbourhood social deprivation and provision of local green space on mental health (particularly anxiety and depression). Historical and contemporary place‐based information from the Lothian region of Scotland is combined with data from a cohort of individuals born in 1936 (the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936) to consider the influence of these environmental factors over the life course on mental health outcomes later in life. The results establish the utility of the life course of place approach, and demonstrate how this concept can be operationalised using historical data sources. The findings suggest that, after adjustment, residing in the most socially disadvantaged neighbourhoods in childhood was detrimental to mental health outcomes at age 70. Further, green space provision in early life environments is related to mental health outcomes in later life, but any effect may be restricted to those residing in socially disadvantaged places, and dependent on the specific mental health outcome being considered. The findings emphasise the potential of the life course of place approach for enhancing the evidence base considering the relationships between health and place.

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Life course of place: A longitudinal study of mental health and place

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Cherrie

Shortt

et al. 2018

Trans Inst British Geog

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“…Neighbourhoods are arguably multifaceted, if not complex constructs that may not easily reduce to a single indicator or an observable metric (Lekkas et al 2017a, 2017b, Warner and Settersten 2016, Weden et al 2011. A methodological approach able to model complex constructs, from a latent perspective, is latent class analysis (Collins and Lanza 2010).…”

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“…Less readily applied have been longitudinal extensions of LCA that aim to characterise, configure and model the evolution in the nature of neighbourhoods (for example, Richardson et al 2014). 2 Modelling neighbourhoods over time using a discrete and categorical latent variable approach has the capacity to reveal insights able to complement existing research concerned with neighbourhood dynamics (Lekkas et al 2017a, 2017b, Weden et al 2011. Moreover, LCA and its longitudinal extensions, offer advantages to alternative methods that form the basis of many extant enquiries such as factor analytic methods, and cluster analysis techniques.…”

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A Longitudinal Typology of Neighbourhood-level Social Fragmentation: A Finite Mixture Model Approach

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Howard²,

Stankov³

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Neighbourhoods are social enclaves. And, from an epidemiological vantage there is substantive research examining how social traits of neighbourhoods affect health. However, this research has often focused on the effects of social deprivation. Less attention has been given to social fragmentation (SF), a construct aligned with the notions of lesser: social cohesion, social capital, collective functioning, and social isolation. Concurrently, there has been limited research that has described the spatial and temporal patterning of neighbourhood-level social traits. With a focus on SF the main aims of this paper were to model and describe the time-varying and spatial nature of SF.Conceptually, this research was informed by ‘thinking in time’ and by the ‘lifecourse-of-place’ perspective. While, from an analytical perspective, a longitudinal (3-time points over 10-years) neighbourhood database was created for the metropolitan region of Adelaide, Australia. Latent Transition Analysis was then used to model the developmental profile of SF where neighbourhoods were proxied by ‘suburbs’, and the measurement model for SF was formed of 9-conceptually related census-based indicators. A four-class, nominal-level latent status model of SF was identified: class-A=low SF; class-B=mixed-level SF/inner urban; class-C=mixed-level SF/peri-urban; and class-D=high SF. Class-A and -D neighbourhoods were the most prevalent at all time points. And, while certain neighbourhoods were inferred to have changed their SF class across time, most neighbourhoods were characterised by intransience.

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“…However, the pathways connecting economic shocks and mental health over time remain poorly understood, and it is less clear whether some communities and regions within countries are particularly vulnerable to these economic circumstances. In addressing these questions, the paper also contributes to research examining how spatiotemporal variation of environmental risk factors developing over the lifecourse of places may relate to inequalities in health outcomes for individuals (Matthews, 2017;Murray et al, 2013;Lekkas et al, 2017;Pearce, 2018). Recent work on the lifecourse of place has shown that there can be critical periods during life when places can influence subsequent health outcomes, often much later in life .…”

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Changing labour market conditions during the ‘great recession' and mental health in Scotland 2007-2011: an example using the Scottish Longitudinal Study and data for local areas in Scotland

Pearce

Curtis

Cherrie

et al. 2018

European Journal of Public Health

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This paper reports research exploring how trends in local labour market conditions during the period 2007-2011 (early stages of the 'great recession') relate to reported mental illness for individuals. It contributes to research on spatio-temporal variation in the wider determinants of health, exploring how the lifecourse of places relates to socio-geographical inequalities in health outcomes for individuals. This study also contributes to the renewed research focus on the links between labour market trends and population health, prompted by the recent global economic recession. We report research using the Scottish Longitudinal Study (SLS), a 5.3% representative sample of the Scottish population, derived from census data (https://sls.lscs.ac.uk/). In Scotland, (2011) census data include self-reported mental health. SLS data were combined with non-disclosive information from other sources, including spatio-temporal trends in labour market conditions (calculated using trajectory modelling) in the 32 local authority areas in Scotland. We show that, for groups of local authorities in Scotland over the period 2007-2011, trends in employment varied. These geographically variable trends in employment rates were associated with inequalities in self-reported mental health across the country, after controlling for a number of other individual and neighbourhood risk factors. For residents of regions that had experienced relatively high and stable levels of employment the odds ratio for reporting a mental illness was significantly lower than for the 'reference group', living in areas with persistently low employment rates. In areas where employment declined markedly from higher levels, the odds ratio was similar to the reference group. The findings emphasise how changes in local economic conditions may influence people's health and wellbeing independently of their own employment status. We conclude that, during the recent recession, the economic life course of places across Scotland has been associated with individual mental health outcomes.

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Illuminating the lifecourse of place in the longitudinal study of neighbourhoods and health

Cited by 34 publications

References 60 publications

Life course of place: A longitudinal study of mental health and place

Life course of place: A longitudinal study of mental health and place

A Longitudinal Typology of Neighbourhood-level Social Fragmentation: A Finite Mixture Model Approach

Changing labour market conditions during the ‘great recession' and mental health in Scotland 2007-2011: an example using the Scottish Longitudinal Study and data for local areas in Scotland

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