Neighbourhood effects on body constitution–A case study of Hong Kong
| Autor: | Wai Kit Ho, Chien-Tat Low, WC Wong, Si Chen, Paulina Wong, Han Dong Li, Poh-Chin Lai |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Male Health (social science) Population Geographic Mapping Poison control 03 medical and health sciences Neighbourhood effect 0302 clinical medicine History and Philosophy of Science Residence Characteristics Humans Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Medicine Chinese Traditional education Neighbourhood (mathematics) Aged Aged 80 and over education.field_of_study business.industry Multilevel model Human factors and ergonomics Middle Aged 030205 complementary & alternative medicine Social deprivation Multilevel Analysis Body Constitution Hong Kong Female business Demography |
| Zdroj: | Social Science & Medicine. 158:61-74 |
| ISSN: | 0277-9536 |
| Popis: | Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has long perceived environment as an integral part of the development of body constitution, which is a personal state of health closely related to disease presence. Despite of the ever-growing studies on the clinical effectiveness of TCM and the scientific linking between body constitution and diseases, the geographical influence on body constitution has yet remained an unexplored territory. This study sought to investigate whether the neighbourhood environment is relevant to the composition of body type of a population through statistical multilevel and Geographic Information Systems modelling. The analysis comprised 3277 participants who had completed their body type assessment between 2009 and 2012 inclusive. The multilevel analysis also took simultaneous accounts of both individual-level (gender, age, BMI, type of housing) and area-level (percent greenery, percent road surface, total road intersection, sky view factor, temperature, relative humidity, rainfall and social deprivation index) characteristics to explain geographical variation by body types. Significant random or place effects (p |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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