Neighbourhood Structure and Health Promotion

1. Neighbourhood Structure and Health Promotion: An Introduction
Christiane Stock, Anne Ellaway

Part I. Understanding Health as a Matter of Place

2. Neighbourhood Context and Mortality: An Overview
Mathias Meijer

3. Area Effects on Behaviour and Lifestyle: The Spatiality of Injustice
Katherine L. Frohlich

4. Sociological Perspectives on Neighbourhood Context and Health
Pernille Tanggaard Andersen

5. People and Place: The Interrelated Connections Between Interactions, Perceptions and Space
Eva Ladekjær Larsen

Part II. Measuring and Monitoring Neighbourhood Structure

6. Methods to Measure Neighbourhoods and Analyse Their Impact on Health: An Overview
Sven Voigtländer, Oliver Razum, Ursula Berger

7. Access to Health-Promoting Facilities and Amenities
Anne Ellaway, Neil Ferguson, Karen Lamb, David Ogilvie

8. GIS: A Spatial Turn in the Health Science?
Jasper Schipperijn, Bo Ejstrud, Jens Troelsen

9. Using GPS to Measure the Interaction Between Individuals and Their Neighbourhood
Jolanda Maas, Reinier P. Sterkenburg, Sanne I. Vries, Frank Pierik

10. Mathematical Approaches to Analysing Area-Level Effects on Health
Ulrike Grittner, Kim Bloomfield

Part III. Neighbourhood and Lifestyle

11. Vitamin G (Green Spaces and Health): Potential Mechanisms, Policy Implications and Ideas for Further Research
Jolanda Maas

12. Socioeconomic Differences in Physical Activity: The Role of Neighbourhood Factors
Carlijn Kamphuis, Frank Lenthe

13. Building in Prevention: Nudging Towards Physical Activity and Public Health
Jens Troelsen

14. Rethinking Exposure in Area Studies on Social Inequities in Smoking in Youth and Young Adults
Martine Shareck, Katherine L. Frohlich

15. Neighbourhood Structure and Alcohol and Other Drug Use: Implications for Prevention
Kim Bloomfield, Christiane Stock

16. Neighbourhoods and Healthy Nutrition
Fiona Crawford

17. School Neighbourhoods and Obesity Prevention in Youth
Chalida Svastisalee

18. Connecting Gender, Space and Place: Are There Gender Differences in the Relationships Between the Social Environment and Health-Related Behaviours?
Anne Ellaway, Carol Emslie

19. From Neighbourhood and Health Research to Health Promotion Practice
Christiane Stock

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Child and School Psychology, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning