Journal
HEALTH & PLACE
Volume 46, Issue -, Pages 49-57Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2017.04.010
Keywords
Obesity; Neighborhoods; Mothers; California; Poverty
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Funding
- University of Texas Population Research Center [R24 HD42849]
- NICHD Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award [T32 HD007081-35]
- American Cancer Society [RSGT-11-010-01-CPPB]
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Neighborhoods (and people) are not static, and are instead shaped by dynamic long-term processes of change (and mobility). Using the Geographic Research on Wellbeing survey, a population-based sample of 2339 Californian mothers, we characterize then investigate how long-term latent neighborhood poverty trajectories predict the likelihood of obesity, taking into account short-term individual residential mobility. We find that, net of individual and neighborhood-level controls, living in or moving to tracts that experienced long-term low poverty was associated with lower odds of being obese relative to living in tracts characterized by long-term high poverty.
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