Neighbourhood Structure and Health Promotion

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Stock, Christiane (Editor), Ellaway, Anne (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Health promotion.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Child psychology.; School psychology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.; Child and School Psychology.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.

It has long been theorized that people living in poor areas have more health problems than their more advantaged peers. More recently, science has been testing this hypothesis, concentrating on the impact of the built environment on well-being and its contribution to health inequities. Neighbourhood...