Neighborhoods and Health: Building Evidence for Local Policy, by Kathryn L.S. Pettit, G. Thomas Kingsley, and Claudia J. Coulton. Washington, D.C.: The Urban Institute, May 2003.

Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, this report summarizes a project conducted by the Urban Institute and five partners in the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership--Cleveland, Denver, Indianapolis, Oakland and Providence. For the first component of the project, each site compiled and analyzed new neighborhood-level indicators pertaining to local health issues and used the data to further local health improvement initiatives. For the second component, researchers examined relationships across sites between neighborhood conditions and five key health indicators (teen birthrates, rates of early prenatal care, rates of low-birth-weight births, infant mortality rates, and age-adjusted mortality rates).

CROSS-SITE REPORT
(Contains summaries of site reports)

FULL SITE REPORTS AVAILABLE ON-LINE

Development and Use of Neighborhood Health Analysis: Residential Mobility in Context. The Providence Plan, 2002.
PDF (2.6 MB)

Indianapolis Site-Specific Neighborhood Health Analysis: Environmental Factors and Risk of Childhood Obesity. Sharon Kandris, the Polis Center at IUPUI, and Gilbert Liu, Dept. of Pediatrics at Indiana University, 2003.
PDF (2.2 MB)

Tuberculosis Infection in Oakland, CA 1997-2001: At-Risk Populations and Predicting "Hot Spots", An Analysis Method Combining Kernel Density Estimation Mapping with Regression. Urban Strategies Council, 2002.
PDF (1.2 MB)

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