Standing
Graduate Student
Type of Proposal
Visual Presentation (Poster, Installation, Demonstration)
Faculty
Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Proposal
This theoretically based paper explores how living in a low-income neighborhood influences both individual and population health. While health has been dominated by biological and psychological understandings, one’s interactions with the built and constructed environment have serious implications for one’s health. Using a social determinants of health approach, this paper determines that increased experiences of stigma, poor infrastructure and access to resources, and exposure to negative health behaviours can all be a direct result of the place in which one resides. Ethnographic examples, qualitative data and biological explanations are used to demonstrate these negative effects. However, groups which do live in low-income neighborhoods participate in a variety of activities in order to negotiate their position for survival. The paper concludes that health models that exclude social or physical location are insufficient, while providing suggestions for future policy.
Location
University of Windsor
Grand Challenges
Viable, Healthy and Safe Communities
Host-Agent-Neighbourhood? How Social and Physical Location Influences Health and Well-Being
University of Windsor
This theoretically based paper explores how living in a low-income neighborhood influences both individual and population health. While health has been dominated by biological and psychological understandings, one’s interactions with the built and constructed environment have serious implications for one’s health. Using a social determinants of health approach, this paper determines that increased experiences of stigma, poor infrastructure and access to resources, and exposure to negative health behaviours can all be a direct result of the place in which one resides. Ethnographic examples, qualitative data and biological explanations are used to demonstrate these negative effects. However, groups which do live in low-income neighborhoods participate in a variety of activities in order to negotiate their position for survival. The paper concludes that health models that exclude social or physical location are insufficient, while providing suggestions for future policy.