OBJECTIVE To assess the relationship between socioeconomic deprivation and health-related quality of life in urban neighbourhoods, using a multilevel approach. METHODS Of the population-based cohort EPIPorto, 1154 georeferenced participants completed the 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey. Neighbourhood socioeconomic deprivation classes were estimated using latent-class analysis. Multilevel mod...

This paper examines neighbourhood effects on health within a large Canadian city--Montréal. Our approach is to consider that individual health outcomes are determined both by individual and neighbourhood characteristics and we consciously take on the problem of neighbourhood definition by developing 'natural' neighbourhoods. Our data come from the Montréal health region sample of the 2000/1 Can...

BACKGROUND Neighbourhood socioeconomic disadvantage and social capital have been associated with adolescent well-being, but the majority of studies were cross-sectional, and the time window over which the neighbourhood may impact on development is unknown. Therefore, the contribution of the neighbourhood environment to adolescents' quality of life and the course of these effects during the peri...

We propose an extension of the PAS problem described in our previous work [6], which considers also constraints about the utilisation of operating rooms for patients that have to undergo a surgery. We design a solution approach based on local search, which explores the search space using complex neighbourhood operators.

The neighbourhood may provide resources for health. It is to date unknown whether people who live in neighbourhoods with more social capital have more access to practical and emotional support by neighbours, or whether this is a resource only available to those who are personally connected to people in their neighbourhood. We investigated whether support by neighbours of people with chronic ill...

This article presents an evaluation of the contribution synthesis Theory Planned Behaviour (TPB) with Time Geography to Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTN) design stages. In LTN scheme, human factor has importance at all stages design. However, is currently based on stakeholder meetings, verbal statements and maps created stakeholders in general. Social psychology, which includes concepts theories ...

BACKGROUND Several studies have shown the positive effect of neighbourhood social capital on health. Existing research, however, has hitherto not studied whether the duration and intensity of exposure to neighbourhood social capital conditions and its effect on health. The aim of this study was to examine whether neighbourhood social capital affects individual's health immediately and equally. ...

BACKGROUND Neighbourhood socioeconomic status (SES) may affect rich and poor residents differentially. Two models are proposed. Model 1: living in a non-deprived neighbourhood is better for health because better collective material and social resources are available. Model 2: being poor (rich) relative to the neighbourhood average is associated with worse (better) health because of the discrepa...

In this paper, we start the study of polymodal neighbourhood languages. We provide a completeness result for the basic polymodal neighbourhood system and show how some important systems based on neighbourhood like semantics can be simulated as subsystems of ours.