Area-level Measures of the Social Environment: Operationalization, Pitfalls, and Ways Forward.
Curr Top Behav Neurosci
; 2024 Mar 08.
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ABSTRACT
People's mental health is intertwined with the social environment in which they reside. This chapter explores approaches for quantifying the area-level social environment, focusing specifically on socioeconomic deprivation and social fragmentation. We discuss census data and administrative units, egocentric and ecometric approaches, neighborhood audits, social media data, and street view-based assessments. We close the chapter by discussing possible paths forward from associations between social environments and health to establishing causality, including longitudinal research designs and time-series social environmental indices.
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