Cited by 3,310Health disparities and outcomesUrban, Neighborhood, and Segregation StudiesEnvironmental Justice and Health Disparities

Making Neighborhood-Disadvantage Metrics Accessible — The Neighborhood Atlas

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Kind, Amy J.H., Buckingham, William R.·2018·New England Journal of Medicine

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Interview with Dr. Amy Kind on a new tool for incorporating data on neighborhood disadvantage into research, policy, and health interventions. (15:45)Download Better understanding of variations in neighborhood disadvantage could lead to improved insight into the sociobiologic mechanisms that underlie health disparities, which could, in turn, facilitate the development of improved therapeutics and interventions.

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  • Neighborhood-level disadvantage may pose risk for poor nutrition and obesity.

    “In addition to state-level racism, neighborhood-level disadvantage may also pose risk for poor nutrition and obesity.”

    From Intersections of Structural State-Level Racism and Neighborhood Deprivation on Nutrition and Obesity for Black Adolescents (2025) · cites this paper as [22]

    The opening section says neighborhood context affects access to food and health behaviors, supporting a possible risk for poor nutrition. It links disadvantaged neighborhoods to diabetes and other diseases, but does not expressly identify obesity as an outcome; obesity appears only in the title of a cited study in the References. Our copy provides no page number for these passages. (LLM, conf=0.83)

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Authors
Kind, A. J. H., & Buckingham, W. R.
Affiliations
University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
Venue
New England Journal of Medicine
Published
2018-06-28
Volume
378
Issue
26
Pages
2456-2458
ISSN
  • 0028-4793 (ISSN-L)
  • 1533-4406
OpenAlex
W2810551427
Cited by
3,310
References
6
Citations by year
2026: 646 · 2025: 767 · 2024: 693 · 2023: 490 · 2022: 382 · 2021: 197 · 2020: 91 · 2019: 33 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 1 · 2012: 2
FWCI
86.73
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • New England Journal of Medicine (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institute on Aging (RF1AG057784)
  • National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (R01MD010243)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Health › Health disparities and outcomes
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
Keywords
neighborhood disadvantage, health disparities, health interventions, social determinants of health, data accessibility
MeSH terms
Humans, Poverty Areas, Residence Characteristics, Socioeconomic Factors, Health Status Disparities, Healthcare Disparities

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