Citation

Joshi S, Mooney SJ, Rundle AG, Quinn JW, Beard JR, Cerdá M. Health Place 2016; 43: 138-143.

Affiliation

Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Davis, 2315 Stockton Blvd, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA. Electronic address: cerda@ucdavis.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.healthplace.2016.12.003

PMID

28049071

Abstract

The pathways through which neighborhood poverty can affect resident depression are still unknown. We investigated mechanisms through which neighborhood poverty may influence depression among older adults. Participants were drawn from the New York City Neighborhood and Mental Health in the Elderly Study II, a 3-wave study of adults aged 65-75 (n=3,497) at baseline. Neighborhood poverty and homicide were associated with depressive symptoms at follow-up waves (RR:1.20, 95%CI: 1.05, 1.36; RR: 1.09, 95%CI: 1.02, 1.17, respectively). Homicide accounted for 30% of the effect of neighborhood poverty on depressive symptoms. Neighborhood exposure to violence may be a key mechanism through which neighborhood poverty influences depression among older adults.

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Language: en