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Wolf, Christof. "Health and Place. The influence of air quality, social status and family status of urban areas on health – A multilevel analysis" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, TBA, New York, New York City, Aug 11, 2007 <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p183975_index.html>

Wolf, C. , 2007-08-11 "Health and Place. The influence of air quality, social status and family status of urban areas on health – A multilevel analysis" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, TBA, New York, New York City Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2009-05-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p183975_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: The paper addresses the question if health is influenced not only by individual but also by ecological factors. Three sets of such factors which might influence individual health are identified: (a) environmental variables, mostly air pollution and noise; (b) characteristics of the built environment, such as density or building age; (c) population composition as conceptualized by Social Area Analysis. It is hypothesized that (H1) poor air quality influences health negatively, that (H2) social status of an area and (H3a) family status of an area both influence health positively, and (H3b) that there is an interaction effect between family status of a district and the presence of children at the individual level. These hypotheses are empirically investigated using data from Cologne, German. Four different health measures are used as dependent variables physical and mental health as measure d by SF-36, an index reflecting health complaints and the body-mass index. At the district level three measures are available: air pollution, social status and family status. In addition a number of individual level variables are included in the analysis. After presenting the results of exploratory analyses on the individual and contextual level three sets of multilevel models are estimated. With the exception of mental health the results indicate small but significant variations of health between city districts. As predicted social status of the district influences physical health and health complaints; the latter is also true for outdoor air quality. However, neither BMI nor mental health depend on the district level variables investigated in this paper.

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