Measuring Neighborhood Deprivation for Childhood Health and Development: Scale Implications in Rural and Urban Context

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Examines administrative neighborhood definitions such as census tract, block group, and school district as well as egocentric GIS neighborhood definitions in relationship to socioeconomic deprivation and their impact on childhood health and development. Utilizes the Family Life Project sample of families in North Carolina and Pennsylvania to evaluate neighborhood deprivation along the urban-rural continuum.

Alexandra Ursache, Seann Regan, Allison De Marco, Dustin T. Duncan

Geospatial Health, 16(1)

03/2021

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Children and youth · Population health · Poverty · Rural-urban differences · North Carolina · Pennsylvania