Human Impact Partners Evidence Base
- Neighborhood-level socioeconomic status (SES) affects health through various social and economic community-level conditions including employment opportunities, social capital, and collective efficacy.
- Neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES) affects health through access to health care, retail, and other services that impact health.
- Neighborhood social and physical disorder adversely affects mental health, which also leads to other negative health outcomes.
- Neighborhood disadvantage and disorder increases adolescent risk behaviors that may affect their long-term health and well-being.
- Residents in a disadvantaged neighborhood are more likely to engage in health risk behaviors than those living in neighborhoods of higher socioeconomic status (SES).
- Living in a neighborhood with high levels of deprivation may have negative health effects, independent of socioeconomic status on the individual level.