Creating Safe And Healthy Neighborhoods With Place-Based Violence Interventions

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• Journal Article:
  Health Aff (Millwood)
• Personal Author:
  Hohl, Bernadette C. ; Kondo, Michelle C. ; Kajeepeta, Sandhya ; MacDonald, John M. ; Theall, Katherine P. ; Zimmerman, Marc A. ; Branas, Charles C.
• Description:
  Violence is a leading cause of death and disability in the United States and abroad, with far-reaching consequences for individuals and communities. Interventions that address environmental and social contexts have the potential for greater populationwide effects, yet research has been slow to identify and rigorously evaluate these types of interventions to reduce violence. Several urban communities across the US are conducting experimental and quasi-experimental community-based research to examine the effect of place-based interventions on violence. Using examples from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Flint, Michigan; Youngstown, Ohio; and New Orleans, Louisiana, we describe how place-based interventions that remediate vacant land and abandoned buildings work to reduce violence. These examples support the potential for place-based interventions to create far-reaching and sustainable improvements in the health and safety of communities that experience significant disadvantage. These interventions warrant the attention of community stakeholders, funders, and policy makers.
• Subjects:
  • Health Status
  • Housing
  • Humans
  • Residence Characteristics
  • Safety
  • United States
  • Urban Renewal
  • Violence
• Source:
  Health Aff (Millwood). 38(10):1687-1694
• DOI:
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2019.00707
• Pubmed ID:
  31589538
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC7336498
• Document Type:
  Text ; Journal Article
• Funding:
  U01 CE002698/CE/NCIPC CDC HHSUnited States/ ; R01 AA020331/AA/NIAAA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R01 HD095609/HD/NICHD NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U01 CE003384/CE/NCIPC CDC HHSUnited States/ ; R49 CE003094/CE/NCIPC CDC HHSUnited States/ ; R01 AA024941/AA/NIAAA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R49CE002474/ACL/ACL HHSUnited States/ ; U01CE002698/ACL/ACL HHSUnited States/
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Volume:
  38
• Issue:
  10
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/90279/cdc_90279_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 72.32 KB]
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:d54cf41cb77b8052047bc02409ae97812c32dee2b4470e5eb3589b9327aea3d92d20f3b904bd798f1b0541efc3d23da71149a6be94914d3f59d562c1778e036b