The spatial dimensions of neighborhood effects

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1098-1105

  Spielman, Seth E ^a   Yoo, Eun hye ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Built environment; Change of support; Contextual effects; Geographic information systems (GIS); Neighborhood effects; Simulation; Spatial analysis; Spatial autocorrelation

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GIS; MODELING; NEIGHBORHOOD; PUBLIC HEALTH; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 61649116905     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.12.048     Document Type: Article

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