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Santos CJ, Paciência I, Ribeiro AI. Neighbourhood Socioeconomic Processes and Dynamics and Healthy Ageing: A Scoping Review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2022; 19(11):6745. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19116745

Neighbourhood socioeconomic processes and dynamics and healthy ageing : a scoping review

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Author: Santos, Cláudia Jardim1,2; Paciência, Inês3,4; Ribeiro, Ana Isabel1,2,5
Organizations: 1EPIUnit-Instituto de Saúde Pública, Universidade do Porto, 4050-600 Porto, Portugal
2Laboratório para a Investigação Integrativa e Translacional em Saúde Populacional (ITR), 4050-600 Porto, Portugal
3Center for Environmental and Respiratory Health Research (CERH), University of Oulu, P.O. Box 5000, 90570 Oulu, Finland
4Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, P.O. Box 5000, 90570 Oulu, Finland
5Departamento de Ciências da Saúde Pública e Forenses e Educação Médica, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade do Porto, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal
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Version: published version
Access: open
Online Access: PDF Full Text (PDF, 2.5 MB)
Persistent link: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2022071451685
Language: English
Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2022
Publish Date: 2022-07-14
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Abstract

Elderly citizens are concentrated in urban areas and are particularly affected by the immediate residential environment. Cities are unequal and segregated places, where there is an intensification of urban change processes such as gentrification and displacement. We aimed to understand how neighbourhood socioeconomic processes and dynamics influence older people’s health. Three bibliographic databases—PubMed, Web of Science, and Scopus—were used to identify evidence of the influence of neighbourhood socioeconomic deprivation, socio-spatial segregation, urban renewal, and gentrification on healthy ageing. We followed the method of Arksey and O’Malley, Levac and colleagues, the Joanna Briggs Institute, and the PRISMA-ScR. The included studies (n = 122) were published between 2001 and 2021. Most evaluated neighbourhood deprivation (n = 114), followed by gentrification (n = 5), segregation (n = 2), and urban renewal (n = 1). Overall, older people living in deprived neighbourhoods had worse healthy ageing outcomes than their counterparts living in more advantaged neighbourhoods. Older adults pointed out more negative comments than positive ones for gentrification and urban renewal. As to segregation, the direction of the association was not entirely clear. In conclusion, the literature has not extensively analysed the effects of segregation, gentrification, and urban renewal on healthy ageing, and more quantitative and longitudinal studies should be conducted to draw better inferences.

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Series: International journal of environmental research and public health
ISSN: 1661-7827
ISSN-E: 1660-4601
ISSN-L: 1661-7827
Volume: 19
Issue: 11
Article number: 6745
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19116745
OADOI: https://oadoi.org/10.3390/ijerph19116745
Type of Publication: A2 Review article in a scientific journal
Field of Science: 1172 Environmental sciences
1181 Ecology, evolutionary biology
3142 Public health care science, environmental and occupational health
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Funding: This research was financed by national funds through FCT-Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., under the projects UIDB/04750/2020, LA/P/0064/2020 and the project “HUG: The health impacts of inner-city gentrification, displacement and housing insecurity: a quasi-experimental multi-cohort study” (PTDC/GES-OUT/1662/2020), by a Scientific Employment Stimulus contract CEECIND/02386/2018 (to AIR), and by the PhD fellowship UI/BD/150782/2020 (to CRJ).
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