@article{ref1,
title="The neighborhood context of well-being",
journal="Perspectives in biology and medicine",
year="2003",
author="Sampson, Robert J.",
volume="46",
number="3 Suppl",
pages="S53-S64",
abstract="Abstract        Health-related problems are strongly associated withthe social characteristics of communities and neighborhoods. We needto treat community contexts as important units of analysis in theirown right, which in turn calls for new measurement strategies as wellas theoretical frameworks that do not simply treat the neighborhoodas a &quot;trait&quot; of the individual. Recent findings from the Project onHuman Development in Chicago Neighborhoods support this thesis. Twomajor themes merit special attention: (1) the importance of collectiveefficacy for understanding health disparities in the modern city; and(2) the salience of spatial dynamics that go beyond the confines oflocal neighborhoods. Further efforts to explain the causes of variationin collective processes associated with healthy communities may provideinnovative opportunities for preventive intervention.<p />",
language="en",
issn="0031-5982",
doi="10.1353/pbm.2003.0073",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2003.0073"
}