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Knies, Gundi. "Neighbourhood effects in Germany." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.442195.
Full textHinton, Jane. "Neighbourhood effects during visual word recognition." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.363914.
Full textKelly, Brian Gerard. "People, place and change : a longitudinal study of individual, cohort and contextual effects on levels of belonging to neighbourhoods and interaction with neighbours, England 1998-2008." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2015. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/people-place-and-change-a-longitudinal-study-of-individual-cohort-and-contextual-effects-on-levels-of-belonging-to-neighbourhoods-and-interaction-with-neighbours-england-19982008(a214e81f-32c8-4137-acbe-32c427e8672d).html.
Full textUrraro, Giuseppe. "Neighbourhood size and neighbourhood frequency effects in the recognition of Italian written words." Doctoral thesis, Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10556/340.
Full textThe present research investigates neighbourhood size and neighbourhood frequency effects in recognition of Italian written words. Neighbourhood size is the number of words that may be generated by changing one letter of the target word, preserving letter positions; neighbourhood frequency refers to the relationship between the frequencies of neighbours and the frequency of the stimulus word (Grainger, O’Regan, Jacobs & Segui, 1989). By extending the studies on Italian non words of Arduino & Burani (2004) and Mulatti, Peressotti & Job (2007) to Italian five-letter words, four experiments were carried out in order to test the neighbourhood size and the neighbourhood frequency effects, as well as the possible interaction between them. We have used, as experimental tasks, the simple lexical decision, the word and nonword naming and the lexical decision with unmasked orthographic priming.[edited by author]
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Broomhead, Tom. "Neighbourhood effects : spatial inequalities in tooth decay." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2017. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/20729/.
Full textHedman, Lina. "Residential Mobility and Neighbourhood Effects: A Holistic Approach." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-160428.
Full textPIAZZONI, CARLOTTA. "Neighbourhood Effects on Physical and Mental Health: Evidence from Italy." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/374064.
Full textIn the last 25 years, the literature has been figuring out how to answer the question, however outlined, on the independent effect that surrounding contexts, together with social contexts, have on individual health. There is no study that has been devoted to studying the link between places and health for the whole Italian territory. The present research wants to demonstrate the existence of the association between daily-living contexts and individual health in Italy. This work is a preliminary exploration of the phenomenon since no information is available for Italy yet. ITA.LI survey collected data from 8,778 subjects belonging to 4,900 families living in 278 municipalities. Individual physical and mental health, measured through the SF-12, is the outcome considered in this study. Essentially, two dependent variables are analysed: one is the Physical Component Summary Scale Score (PCS), and the other one is the Mental Component Summary Scale Score (MCS). In studying the context, reference is made to both subjective measures (social cohesion and neighborhood disorder) and objective measures, both compositional (census data) and contextual (meteorological conditions). Moreover, together with individual characteristics, household-level deprivation is considered. Multilevel analysis is implemented considering a three-level structure in which individuals are nested in families, which are nested in neighbourhoods. Four models are estimated: first a null model, second a random-intercepts model, third a random-slopes model, and finally a cross-level contextual model. Evidence suggests the existence of neighbourhood effects in Italy, especially on mental health conditions. Compositional characteristics such as unemployment and the proportion of rented houses affect individual physical health, while contextual characteristics affect mental health. The subjective perception of social cohesion is essential only to mental health, while neighborhood disorder is related to both mental and physical health. Different results are found between regions and macro-areas.
Wong, Leung-wai, and 王良慧. "Investigating consistency and orthographic neighbourhood density effects in Chinese character processing." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/197118.
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De, Villiers Madeleine. "Neighbourhood effects in educational outcomes with non-random assignment : a memberships approach." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/5779.
Full textThis paper uses a unique dataset from a large university in South Africa to analyse the role that neighbourhood and race effects play in determining academic performance. In particular, I am interested in ascertaining whether allocation to a particular residence, or group of residences, affects the academic outcomes of first year students. This paper departs from previous studies of peer interactions in higher education as allocation to residence is non-random in this setting.
Hunter, Boyd Hamilton, and Boyd Hunter@anu edu au. "Changes in the Geographic Dispersion of Urban Employment in Australia." The Australian National University. Research School of Social Sciences, 1996. http://thesis.anu.edu.au./public/adt-ANU20080215.102127.
Full textWeinhardt, Felix Julian. "Does geography matter? an empirical investigation into neighbourhood, peer effects and electricity consumption." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2012. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/352/.
Full textSantos, Maldonado M. C. "First and second language visual word recognition : neighbourhood effects in Spanish and English." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.661584.
Full textAbdlrahman, Abdlrahman Y. A. "Insect herbivores and neighbourhood effects in plant communities of Al Jabal Al Akhdar, Libya." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2011. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12122/.
Full textZhang, Xin. "Area effects on health inequalities: the impact of neighbourhood deprivation on mortality and morbidity." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.583375.
Full textal, Farsi Badriya. "Semantic neighbourhood density effects in word identification during normal reading : evidence from eye movements." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2014. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/370013/.
Full textSara, Amatul Sabooh. "Exploring Place Attachment and Neighbourhood Effects : A case study of Skärholmen and Vårberg, Sweden." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-182394.
Full textAdekanmbi, Victor. "Unravelling the effects of neighbourhood contextual influences on childhood mortality and morbidity in Nigeria." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2015. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/77279/.
Full textMcDool, Emily. "Evaluation of neighbourhood, class setting and academy school effects on education outcomes in the UK." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2016. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/15436/.
Full textRussell, Jonsson K. "Where you live makes a difference : quantifying neighbourhood effects on the health of young people." Thesis, University of Essex, 2018. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/22287/.
Full textPridmore, Alison. "Neighbourhood effects and the adoption of new vehicle technologies : exploring consumer take-up of Toyota Priuses." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2016. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=230772.
Full textvan, der Burgt Danielle. ""Där man bor tycker man det är bra" : Barns geografier i en segregerad stadsmiljö." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala University, Department of Social and Economic Geography, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-7414.
Full textBecause of the socioeconomic and ethnic segregation in many Swedish towns, residents with different social backgrounds are often living in separate neighbourhoods. This thesis focuses on children aged between 11 and 14 and explores the spatial extent of their social networks, their spatial mobility and spatial representations. By studying these aspects of children’s daily lives the study attempts to contribute to a better understanding of the underlying mechanisms behind neighbourhood effects.
The spatial extension of the daily lives of children in seven adjacent neighbourhoods in a medium sized Swedish town is mapped. By using children’s activity diaries, surveys with parents and children’s maps the study explores to which extent children with different personal characteristics and from different neighbourhoods have friends outside their own neighbourhoods, where they spend time and what kind of activities they engage in and with whom. The study shows that the possibility to get their own direct experience of other neighbourhoods differs between groups of children, much depending on the geographical extension of their social networks, which in turn appears mainly to be a consequence of school reception areas and, indirectly, school popularity.
By using children’s maps and group interviews children’s perspectives of their own and other neighbourhoods are analysed. The thesis illustrates how children feel about and discuss their own neighbourhoods and other neighbourhoods in town. The children in the study emphasize their own neighbourhood as a good and quiet neighbourhood, irrespective of the neighbourhood’s character and status. One of the neighbourhoods is stigmatised in the public discourse. Among the children there is a living debate in relation to this neighbourhood. In group interviews the children sometimes confirm, sometimes critically question the rumours about this neighbourhood. The children which live in this neighbourhood are aware of the bad reputation and also act and react upon it
Hällmark, Kristin, and Baldesi Angelo Ljungquist. "Political views as neighbourhood effects : A study of Swedish voting behaviour using spatial analysis and socio-economic factors." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statistiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-356145.
Full textAlbor, Christo. "Are poor people healthier in rich or poor areas? : the psychosocial effects of socioeconomic incongruity in the neighbourhood." Thesis, University of York, 2011. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/1595/.
Full textGavu, Emmanuel Kofi [Verfasser], and Karl-Werner [Gutachter] Schulte. "Understanding location and neighbourhood effects: An analysis of the housing submarkets in Accra – Ghana / Emmanuel Kofi Gavu ; Gutachter: Karl-Werner Schulte." Dortmund : Universitätsbibliothek Dortmund, 2020. http://d-nb.info/1212661702/34.
Full textEriksson, Katarina. "Spelar adressen någon roll? : En studie av områdeseffekter på medborgares politiska deltagande." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Statsvetenskap, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-1326.
Full textHachem, Maéva. "Do the Presence of Anchor Institutions Increase Opportunities in Life? : Exploring the Effects of Higher Education Institutions on Pupils’ School Achievements in different neighbourhood types." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-377131.
Full textVerelzen, Wessel. "The effects of 'going local' during the planning process for onshore wind power development." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-448710.
Full textSjöblom, Anton, and Hampus Bengtsson. "Boendesegregationens grannskapseffekter – en studie av forskningen kring boendesegregationens konsekvenser." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23822.
Full textThe research regarding residential segregation has in recent years come to play an increasingly large role in the debate concerning segregation in Sweden. This paper is a literature study which discusses how researchers both have studied and are studying the conceptofsegregat ion,howsegregat ionismadevisible,whyitoccursa ndwhat consequences it may bring.By connecting the current discussion of residential segregation, neighbourhood effects, stigmatisation and mixed residential environments with empirical data from two case study areas in Botkyrka Kommun in Sweden, is the intention of this paper to study the consequences of residential segregation on inhabitants.The result of the case study and the literature study has shown a complex research area, whereas you on one hand can find researchers who uses the neighbourhood effect as a basis in their research, while on the other hand there are some sceptics who points at empirical shortcomings for the evidence of the existence of neighbourhood effects.Furthermore it has been possible to detect relatively large differences between the to case study areas, when it comes to the socio-economic career of young adults. Traces of an exogenous effect have been spotted, but the study has had difficulties in proving a cause-and- effect connection between the residential area and its inhabitants socioeconomic career.
Wiklund, Carolina. "Boendekoncept baserat på eddan ”människan är människans största glädje” : En fallstudie – hur ska ett nytt bostadsområde i Åre utformas för att tilltala generationen 55+?" Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Institutionen för ekoteknik- och hållbart byggande, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-42688.
Full textUrban planning is challenging and includes many different perspectives. Agenda 2030 describes two objectives that are directly applicable to urban planning. Objective 3 means that all humans, regardless of age, should have the prerequisites to live a good life with good well-being where meeting with other people is an important factor. The other objective, Objective 11, means that residential areas and cities should be inclusive and sustainable. In Sweden, we have a growing population that is 65 years and older. This is an effect of the increased length of life and also applies in Åredalen. The interest of spending time in Åre is growing and one effect of this is that the demand for both holiday and permanent housing is increasing. During the 1980s, many people moved to Åre. Of those who have remained in the valley since then, several lives in villas. These villas could be of interest to the younger generations who have started to establish their family life in the valley. Today, there is no accommodation aimed at the generation 55+ even though the study shows that the need exists. One conclusion of the study is that an accommodation concept aimed at, among other things, the target group 55+ could stimulate the moving chain in the valley. The purpose of the study is to develop a concept for the development of a 45,000 square meter property in Åre based on the social perspective. The property is part of the real estate company Diö's portfolio today and the existing buildings house different types of businesses. Some of the activities carried out on the properties are healthcare, police and coworking areas. The eddic poem "Man is man's greatest joy" has been used as a starting point in the preparation of the proposal. In order to create a proposal related to the needs of the valley, the proposal is based on the survey as well as the interviews and site visits conducted during the study.
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O'Grady, Kathryn. "Effect of neighbourhood economic characteristics on the health of individuals." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/26999.
Full textHeilmann, A. "Neighbourhoods and children's social and cognitive development : pathways of effects." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2013. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1399070/.
Full textLevi, Loïc. "Comportements d'investissement et performances des exploitations agricoles selon la position dans le cycle de vie." Thesis, Rennes, Agrocampus Ouest, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018NSARE053/document.
Full text: Investment and innovation play an important role in the agricultural sector, allowing farms to adapt to policy changes and market condition changes. In the last decades, farms in the European Union (EU) have faced substantial changes in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). This is particularly the case of the dairy sector, which has seen the end of milk quota regime and increased price volatility. Such changes could affect farm productivity and efficiency, the dairy sector’s competitiveness and structural change. Understanding the mechanisms underlying farms’ investment behaviour could allow identifying key drivers that influence the observed trends. This could help anticipate future structural changes, predict farms’ needs and help policy makers and other stakeholders in farming to adapt their policy. The thesis contributes to this objective by analysing for dairy farms in a sub-region of Brittany (Ille-et-Vilaine) in France, (i) the impact of the termination of the milk quota onfarmers’ investment decisions and the heterogeneity of farm investment behaviour, (ii) the link between farm performance and farmers’ investment decisions, (iii) the role of social interactions related to neighbourhood effects on farmers' investment decision. Findings show that the termination of the dairy quota policy increased farmers’ incentive to invest, contributing to the trend towards larger, more capital intensive and more specialised dairy farms. In addition, the thesis underlines the need to take into account farmers’ heterogeneity in modelling investment behaviour. Doing so allows
Kumar, Anjeela Marie. "The Effect of the Neighbourhood Built Environment on Obesity in Christchurch." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Geography, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/3196.
Full textSilan, Margherita. "Propensity score techniques in multiple treatments framework: the estimation of neighbourhood effect." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Padova, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3424970.
Full textL'effetto di vicinato è stato definito da Oakes (2004) come l'effetto causale indipendente di un vicinato su qualsiasi esito sociale o di salute. Lo scopo principale di questo elaborato consiste nello stimare l'effetto di vicinato sullo stato di salute degli anziani residenti a Torino con un approccio basato sull'uso del propensity score. Tuttavia, risulta necessario adattare le tecniche di propensity score, generalmente utilizzate con trattamenti dicotomici, a casi di trattamento multiplo, in cui siano eventualmente coinvolti molti trattamenti (10 o più). I dati utilizzati nella tesi provengono dallo studio longitudinale torinese (SLT), descritto nel capitolo 3. Una delle domande di ricerca principali in questa tesi consiste nello stimare quanto le differenze osservate nello stato di salute degli anziani residenti in diversi vicinati siano dovute al vicinato di residenza e quanto invece siano legate alle diverse caratteristiche degli individui che lo compongono. Per aggiustare per l'effetto dei confondenti e ricostruire un approccio sperimentale, abbiamo preferito adottare tecniche basate sull'uso del propensity score, che sono brevemente descritte nel capitolo 2. Nella prima parte delle analisi viene valutato il funzionamento di un approccio di inverse probability of treatment weighting in uno scenario costituito da 10 trattamenti (capitolo 4). Viene poi applicato su dati reali per stimare l'effetto di vicinato su due esiti di salute: le fratture ospedalizzate e le malattie mentali (capitolo 5). Nella seconda parte della tesi invece viene descritta una proposta originale che consiste in un matching che sfrutta la teoria degli ordinamenti parziali poset). Questo approccio, che abbiamo chiamato Matching on Poset based Average Rank for Multiple Treatment (MARMoT), è stato testato attraverso uno studio di simulazione e si è rivelato essere particolarmente utile per la stima degli effetti di vicinato, riducendo la distorsione delle stime grazie al miglioramento del bilanciamento delle variabili confondenti tra i vicinati.
Banks, Christopher Phillip. "At What Level Does Place Matter? Threshold Effects in Australian Urban Neighbourhoods." Thesis, Griffith University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366765.
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Malgas, Shannon M. "The effects of subsidized housing on the property values of neighbourhoods within its vicinity." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27981.
Full textJivraj, Stephen. "The effect of internal migration on the socioeconomic composition of neighbourhoods in England." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2011. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-effect-of-internal-migration-on-the-socioeconomic-composition-of-neighbourhoods-in-england(10b2e42a-daaf-460d-9094-a14c4b899684).html.
Full textTu, Andrew. "Developmental growth patterns of Canadian children and the effect of the neighbourhood environment on growth." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/50498.
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Neuman, Emma. "Essays on Ethnic Segregation and Economic Outcomes." Licentiate thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för nationalekonomi och statistik (NS), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-30202.
Full textMohammad, Pour Sara. "Implementing a neighbourhood scale stormwater retrofit : effect of self-draining rain barrels on an urban stream." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/44268.
Full textJaganmohan, Madhumitha [Verfasser]. "Cooling effects of urban green spaces on residential neighbourhoods : a review and empirical study / Madhumitha Jaganmohan." Halle, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1179184386/34.
Full textMehdipanah, Roshanak 1984. "Urban renewal and health : the effects of the Neighbourhoods Law on health and health inequalities in Barcelona." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/301438.
Full textLes intervencions de renovació urbana tenen com a objectiu millorar les infraestructures físiques, promoure la integració social i augmentar els guanys econòmics. A més, també tenen el potencial de millorar el benestar dels residents. L'objectiu d'aquesta tesi és poder comprendre com una política de renovació urbana, la Llei de Barris, pot afectar a la salut i a les desigualtats en salut a la ciutat de Barcelona. Per respondre a aquest objectiu s’han realitzat tres articles usant un enfocament de mètodes mixtos. El primer estudi utilitza la metodologia de “Concept Mapping” per analitzar la percepció dels veïns en relació als canvis que s’han produït en el barri en els últims anys i la seva importància per al seu benestar. El segon estudi utilitza l'Enquesta de Salut de Barcelona per analitzar la mala salut autopercebuda i l'estat de salut mental, abans i després de la Llei de Barris en els barris participants utilitzant com a grup de comparació un grup de barris no participants de característiques socio-demogràfiques similars. Les anàlisis es van repetir per introduir la dimensió de la desigualtat en salut utilitzant la classe social (ocupacional) com a indicador. El tercer estudi utilitza els resultats obtinguts dels dos estudis anteriors i de la bibliografia existent per proposar possibles mecanismes que vinculin la renovació urbana en la salut. Els resultats d'aquests estudis indiquen que la Llei de Barris té un efecte positiu en la salut i en la desigualtat en salut dels veïns.
Noueihed, Cherine. "An investigation of the effect of neighbourhood characteristics on traumatic dental injuries among a sample of Quebec children." Thesis, McGill University, 2009. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=40724.
Full textIntroduction: Des études ont démontré que les caractéristiques des quartiers étaient associées à la santé; toutefois, cette association n'a pas été complètement explorée en regard du trauma dentaire (TD) au Québec. Objectifs: Évaluer la prévalence de TD ainsi que les facteurs associés au TD sur les dents antérieures chez les enfants participants à la cohorte QUALITY. Méthodes: Les participants (N=279) étaient des enfants, âgés de 8 à 10 ans et ayant un risque élevé de développer l'obésité, ainsi que leurs familles. TD a été cliniquement évalué en utilisant les mêmes critères du questionnaire de l'Enquête de Santé Dentaire des Enfants du Royaume-Uni. Les questionnaires complétés par les enfants et leurs parents ont permis de recueillir des données sociodémographiques, comportement mentales et environnementales. Résultats: La prédominance de TD s’élevait à 12.9 %. Les enfants ayant un surjet incisal plus grand que 5 millimètres, une position socioéconomique élevée et résidant dans les quartiers avec un niveau de capital social élevé étaient plus à risque de TD. Conclusion: Les caractéristiques des quartiers tels que le capital social et le statut socioéconomique pourraient être associées avec le TD.
CONSOLAZIO, DAVID. "Social and Spatial Inequalities in Health in Milan: the Case of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/263136.
Full textThis PhD dissertation is aimed at studying health inequalities in the Italian city of Milan. Health inequalities can be defined as differences in people’s health across the population and between population groups, which are attributable to individuals’ socioeconomic status as a consequence of the uneven distribution of social, economic, cultural, and relational resources that enable people to reach their health potential (Sarti et al., 2011). Moreover, people’s health may also be affected by psychosocial and physical characteristics of the local environment in which they live, so that those living in disadvantaged areas may be at a higher risk of being subjected to worse health conditions (Macintyre and Ellaway, 2000; 2003). Moving from the theoretical and conceptual foundations of the Fundamental Causes Theory (Link and Phelan 1995; Phelan et al., 2010) and the Social Determinants of Health approach ( Solar and Irwin, 2010; Wilkinson and Marmot, 2003) this work intends to provide both an accurate mapping of the distribution of health conditions within the Milanese territory – and its association with individual and contextual socioeconomic status – and to contribute to the debate on the presence of neighbourhood effects on health (Diez-Roux, 2004; Galster, 2012). We thus relied on an interdisciplinary approach, making use of tools and methods from sociology, epidemiology, and geography. A fine-grained study of disease distribution among the neighbourhoods of the city of Milan was missing, and we opted to focus on Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in light of its typical association with both individual socioeconomic conditions (Agardh et al., 2011) and environmental characteristics (Den Braver et al., 2018). Relying on the unprecedented use of administrative healthcare data provided by the Epidemiology Unit of the Health Protection Agency of the Metropolitan City of Milan, linked with data from the most recent Italian census, we performed a multilevel case-control study, aimed at assessing the relative impact of individual and neighbourhood socioeconomic status on the risk of developing the disease. Our results confirmed the presence of a social gradient in the distribution of the disease, with an increasing prevalence in correspondence with lower educational attainment. Moreover, we found evidence of a spatial heterogeneity in the distribution of the disease, which was not entirely explained by individual socioeconomic status: the association between neighbourhood socioeconomic status and the risk of developing Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus remained statistically significant even after accounting for individual-level variables, suggesting a role of the context in shaping risk exposure independently of the clustering of individuals with similar characteristics in the same areas. In line with the existing literature, we found that individual characteristics still play a major role in explaining risk exposure, but also that the context where people live has a non-negligible effect and should be encompassed in the design of policies aimed at tackling the disease and reducing social inequalities at its onset. Despite playing a role in mitigating disparities in relation to disease management and quality of care, there is evidence that the healthcare system alone is not able to effectively tackle existing inequalities, and that broader actions intervening in the structure that contribute to the generation and perpetuation of social and spatial inequalities are needed.
Galhardo, Jacques. "Effets et usages du patrimoine urbain. Processus de territorialisation et actions publiques dans le quartier de la Mouraria (Lisbonne)." Thesis, Tours, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018TOUR1501/document.
Full textThe aim of this doctoral thesis is to analyse the process of heritage policy and the different exchanges between public actors, within the framework of a town council intervention. The latter occurred between 2010 and 2014 in part of the old Lisbon city centre known as “the Mouraria neighbourhood”. The purpose is to understand how a public policy for heritage finds the necessary resources for arrangements between the public players at the level of an old popular neighbourhood. But this is also an opportunity to know how those very same players take part in the building of various forms of commitment and partnership around a challenging project of rehabilitation / requalification on a “public” stage swept by controversies and conflicts between them. Not only does analysing the use of heritage and memories resources enable to understand how to build a specific territoriality but also how to integrate it into the norms of urban strategies. This research also enables to grasp the reflexive effects of this form of territorialisation on the making of cities
ZAMPATTI, DAVIDE. "GAUGING ETHNIC AND SOCIAL INEQUALITY IN URBAN CONTEXTS: THE CASE OF BRESCIA, ITALY." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2434/634805.
Full textBandow, KI. "Neighbourhood effects on plant functional traits in an experimental forest." Thesis, 2022. https://eprints.utas.edu.au/47054/1/Bandow_whole_thesis.pdf.
Full textOliver, Lisa Nicole. "Does neighbourhood residence influence the readiness to learn of kindergarten children in Vanouver? : a multilevel analysis of neighbourhood effects." Thesis, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/13447.
Full textMorton, Tanya Rosemary. "Neighbourhood Correlates of Child Injury: A Case Sudy of Toronto, Canada." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/32777.
Full textHunter, Boyd. "Changes in the Geographic Dispersion of Urban Employment in Australia." Phd thesis, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/47287.
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