Income change at retirement, neighbourhood-based social support, and ischaemic heart disease: Results from the prospective cohort study “Men born in 1914”

Chaix, Basile; Isacsson, Sven‐Olof; Råstam, Lennart; Lindström, Martin; Merlo, Juan

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2006.10.018

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“…Neighbourhood-based social support in its instrumental, informational, appraisal, and emotional forms52 may help people adhere to medical recommendations and prescribed treatments. Explanations (c) and (d) are coherent with the literature that emphasises that social support plays a stronger role in enhancing survival after a cardiac event than in preventing the first incidence of the disease 26 27 53. …”

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“…Moreover, people reporting low social support from their neighbours had an increased IHD risk, after adjustment for cardiovascular risk factors and social variables 27. Neighbourhood social interactions were, however, directly considered neither in the first study (residential stability is a determinant of social interactions) nor in the second (neighbourhood social support was assessed at the individual level).…”

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Neighbourhood social interactions and risk of acute myocardial infarction

Chaix

Lindström

Merlo

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Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health

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Study objective: Previous studies of neighbourhood effects on ischaemic heart disease (IHD) have used census or administrative data to characterise the residential context, most commonly its socioeconomic level. Using the ecometric approach to define neighbourhood social interaction variables that may be relevant to IHD, neighbourhood social cohesion and safety were examined to see how they related to acute myocardial infarction (AMI) mortality, after adjustment for individual and neighbourhood confounders. Design: To construct social interaction variables, multilevel models were used to aggregate individual perceptions of safety and cohesion at the neighbourhood level. Linking data from the Health Survey in Scania, Sweden, and the Population, Hospital, and Mortality Registers, multilevel survival models were used to investigate determinants of AMI mortality over a three year and nine month period. Participants: 7791 Individuals aged 45 years and over. Main results: The rate of AMI mortality increased with decreasing neighbourhood safety and cohesion. After adjustment for individual health and socioeconomic variables, low neighbourhood cohesion, and to a lesser extent low safety, were associated with higher AMI mortality. Neighbourhood cohesion effects persisted after adjustment for various neighbourhood confounding factors (income, population density, percentage of residents from low-income countries, residential stability) and distance to the hospital. There was some evidence that neighbourhood cohesion effects on AMI mortality were caused by effects on one-day case-fatality, rather than on incidence. Conclusions: Beyond commonly evoked effects of the physical environment, neighbourhood social interaction patterns may have a decisive influence on IHD, with a particularly strong effect on survival after AMI.Studies have shown that the risk of ischaemic heart disease (IHD) increases with the poverty of the residential neighbourhood, beyond the effects of individual socioeconomic characteristics.

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Neighbourhood social interactions and risk of acute myocardial infarction

Chaix

Lindström

Merlo

et al. 2008

Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health

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“…[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] This effect may be due in part to the impact of material infrastructures and services on health-damaging behavior and healthcare utilization 1 and to environmental hazards (air pollution, noise exposure). 10,11 However, besides effects of the physical environment, the literature on social support and ischemic heart disease, 12 including a study showing a protective effect of neighborhood-based social support, 13 suggests that structural characteristics that shape social functioning and the level of social cohesion in the neighborhood may be relevant to ischemic heart disease risk. Social interaction patterns in the neighborhood may be stressful, 14 may condition the quality and amount of social support individuals receive from their neighborhood, 13,15 and may harm their psychologic wellbeing.…”

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“…10,11 However, besides effects of the physical environment, the literature on social support and ischemic heart disease, 12 including a study showing a protective effect of neighborhood-based social support, 13 suggests that structural characteristics that shape social functioning and the level of social cohesion in the neighborhood may be relevant to ischemic heart disease risk. Social interaction patterns in the neighborhood may be stressful, 14 may condition the quality and amount of social support individuals receive from their neighborhood, 13,15 and may harm their psychologic wellbeing. 16 Such causal pathways could influence health behavior and risk of ischemic heart disease.…”

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“…In turn, emotional, informational, and instrumental support, and social control of close neighbors encouraging one to comply with medical recommendations, may affect health behavior and coronary health. 12,13,22,23 We attempted to isolate the effect of residential stability on ischemic heart disease risk, an effect that might otherwise be partly incorporated in the neighborhood socioeconomic effect.…”

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Neighborhood Socioeconomic Deprivation and Residential Instability

Chaix¹,

Rosvall²,

Merlo³

2007

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Effects of residential instability on post-MI survival may be mediated by the lower availability of social support in residentially unstable neighborhoods, suggesting a new class of intermediate processes that should be taken into account when investigating contextual influences on ischemic heart disease. Moreover, dissimilar contextual effects may operate at various stages of the disease process (ie, on incidence, case-fatality, and survival after MI).

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Neighborhood Environment in Studies of Health of Older Adults

Yen

Michael

Perdue

2009

American Journal of Preventive Medicine

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Context Epidemiologists and public health researchers are studying neighborhood’s effect on individual health. The health of older adults may be more influenced by their neighborhoods as a result of decreased mobility. However, research on neighborhood’s influence on older adults’ health, specifically, is limited. Evidence acquisition Recent studies on neighborhood and health for older adults were identified. Studies were identified through searches databases including PsychINFO, CINAHL, PubMed, Academic Search Premier, Ageline, Social Science Citation Index, and Health Source. Criteria for inclusion were: human studies; English language; study sample included adults aged ≥55 years; health outcomes including mental health, health behaviors, morbidity, and mortality; neighborhood as the primary exposure variable of interest; empirical research; and studies that included >=10 neighborhoods. Air pollution studies were excluded. Five hundred thirty-eight relevant articles were published 1997–2007; 33 of these articles met inclusion criteria. Evidence synthesis The measures of objective and perceived aspects of neighborhood were summarized. Neighborhood was primarily operationalized using census-defined boundaries. Measures of neighborhood were principally derived from objective sources of data; eight studies assessed perceived neighborhood alone or in combination with objective measures. Six categories of neighborhood characteristics were socioeconomic composition, racial composition, demographics, perceived resources and/or problems, physical environment, and social environment. The studies are primarily cross-sectional and use administrative data to characterize neighborhood. Conclusions These studies suggest that neighborhood environment is important for older adults’ health and functioning.

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Income change at retirement, neighbourhood-based social support, and ischaemic heart disease: Results from the prospective cohort study “Men born in 1914”

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References 43 publications

Neighbourhood social interactions and risk of acute myocardial infarction

Neighbourhood social interactions and risk of acute myocardial infarction

Neighborhood Socioeconomic Deprivation and Residential Instability

Neighborhood Environment in Studies of Health of Older Adults

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