The association between neighborhood disorder, social cohesion and hazardous alcohol use: A national multilevel study

Kuipers, Mirte A G; Poppel, Mireille N. M. van; Brink, Wim van den; Wingen, Marleen; Kunst, Anton E.

doi:10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2012.04.008

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“…However, such differences do not seem to exist for very high levels of alcohol use, that is, above 22 glasses per week. A previous study has shown that the prevalence of very high alcohol intake was associated with the occurrence of neighbourhood problems 42. People with a higher alcohol intake and a problematic type of alcohol use might selectively migrate into more deprived neighbourhoods.…”

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Why residents of Dutch deprived neighbourhoods are less likely to be heavy drinkers: the role of individual and contextual characteristics

Kuipers

Jongeneel-Grimen

Droomers

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J Epidemiol Community Health

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Why residents of Dutch deprived neighbourhoods are less likely to be heavy drinkers: the role of individual and contextual characteristics

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“…34 (More recent manuscripts have heeded this recommendation and have found qualitatively different effects for men and women, although the directions have been inconsistent). [35][36][37][38][39] In the review by Karriker-Jaffe, consistent associations between neighborhood disadvantage and heavy drinking were reported. 34 More recent studies not included in this review have corroborated this finding; although the frequency of alcohol use generally increases in higher SES neighborhoods, binge drinking, heavy alcohol use, and other risky drinking behaviors tend to decrease, 35,40 although the evidence is mixed.…”

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“…[41][42][43] Similar relationships have been found for other neighborhood measures, such as neighborhood disorder, cohesion, unemployment, and deterioration of the built environment. 36,39,[44][45][46][47] Although there is emerging evidence of an association between aspects of neighborhood disadvantage and drinking behavior among adults, several research gaps remain. Not only is the examination of gender differences lacking, but there is limited data on this relationship in late middle-aged and older adults.…”

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Neighborhood Psychosocial Hazards and Binge Drinking among Late Middle-Aged Adults

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Older adults may be more vulnerable to negative health effects from alcohol as they age. Distress and adverse neighborhood conditions that provoke distress may influence drinking behavior. Using baseline data from the Baltimore Memory Study, a cohort study of adults aged 50-70 years living in 65 Baltimore City neighborhoods, we investigated the association between neighborhood psychosocial hazards (NPH) and the number of binge drinking days in the past month among non-abstainers (N0645). We used negative binomial regression with generalized estimating equations to estimate the relative number of binge drinking days per month associated with a one standard deviation increase in NPH score. Residing in neighborhoods with more psychosocial hazards was independently associated with more binge drinking for females, but not for males. For females, each one standard deviation increase in NPH score was associated with a 1.52 relative risk of binge drinking (95 % confidence interval, 1.10, 2. 10) in the adjusted model. The findings were robust to a sensitivity analysis in which we used the average number of drinks per drinking occasion as an alternative outcome. Our findings provide evidence linking adverse neighborhood conditions with alcohol consumption in non-abstaining late middle-aged women, and suggest that late middle-aged men and women may have different reactions to adverse residential neighborhoods.

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“…During the last decades numerous research efforts have explored this question. This research has shown an association between neighborhood disorder and criminal behavior through the well-known 'broken windows theory' [26,11], but also an association between neighborhood disorder and health outcomes, such as the spread of STDs [2], the incidence of obesity [6], and rates of female alcoholism [12].…”

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Streetscore -- Predicting the Perceived Safety of One Million Streetscapes

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Philipoom

Raskar

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2014 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops

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Social science literature has shown a strong connection between the visual appearance of a city's neighborhoods and the behavior and health of its citizens. Yet, this research is limited by the lack of methods that can be used to quantify the appearance of streetscapes across cities or at high enough spatial resolutions. In this paper, we describe 'Streetscore', a scene understanding algorithm that predicts the perceived safety of a streetscape, using training data from an online survey with contributions from more than 7000 participants. We first study the predictive power of commonly used image features using support vector regression, finding that Geometric Texton and Color Histograms along with GIST are the best performers when it comes to predict the perceived safety of a streetscape. Using Streetscore, we create high resolution maps of perceived safety for 21 cities in the Northeast and Midwest of the United States at a resolution of 200 images/square mile, scoring ∼1 million images from Google Streetview. These datasets should be useful for urban planners, economists and social scientists looking to explain the social and economic consequences of urban perception.

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The association between neighborhood disorder, social cohesion and hazardous alcohol use: A national multilevel study

Cited by 51 publications

References 49 publications

Why residents of Dutch deprived neighbourhoods are less likely to be heavy drinkers: the role of individual and contextual characteristics

Why residents of Dutch deprived neighbourhoods are less likely to be heavy drinkers: the role of individual and contextual characteristics

Neighborhood Psychosocial Hazards and Binge Drinking among Late Middle-Aged Adults

Streetscore -- Predicting the Perceived Safety of One Million Streetscapes

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