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- Title
Moving to Opportunity: an Experimental Study of Neighborhood Effects on Mental Health.
- Authors
Leventhal, Tama; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne
- Abstract
Objectives. The health consequences of neighborhood poverty are a public health problem. Data were obtained to examine links between neighborhood residence and mental health outcomes. Methods. Moving to Opportunity was a randomized, controlled trial in which families from public housing in high-poverty neighborhoods were moved into private housing in near-poor or nonpoor neighborhoods, with a subset remaining in public housing. At the 3-year follow-up of the New York site, 550 families were reinterviewed. Results. Parents who moved to low-poverty neighborhoods reported significantly less distress than parents who remained in high-poverty neighborhoods. Boys who moved to less poor neighborhoods reported significantly fewer anxious/depressive and dependency problems than did boys who stayed in public housing. Conclusions. This study provides experimental evidence of neighborhood income effects on mental health. (Am J Public Health. 2003;93:1576--1582)
- Subjects
MENTAL health; PUBLIC health; NEIGHBORHOODS; POVERTY; PUBLIC housing
- Publication
American Journal of Public Health, 2003, Vol 93, Issue 9, p1576
- ISSN
0090-0036
- Publication type
Abstract
- DOI
10.2105/AJPH.93.9.1576