Examining the Role of Neighborhood-Level Foreclosure in Smoking and Alcohol Use Among Older Adults in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis
Year: 2018
Type: article
Abstract: The US Great Recession resulted in an alarming number of home foreclosures that weakened the social and physical environment of thousands of neighborhoods. Few studies have evaluated whether these neighborhood changes were related to changes in individual behaviors. We examined the relationship between changes in neighborhood-level home foreclosure within a quarter-mile (0.4-km) buffer of the residence and changes in cigarette smoking and alcohol use among 3,807 adults enrolled in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis during 2005-2012, using econometric individual-level fixed-effects models. Increases in neighborhood-level foreclosure were associated with small decreases in the number of cigarettes smoked per day (mean difference = -0.08, 95% confidence interval: -0.11, -0.04) and small increases in the number of alcoholic beverages consumed per week (mean difference = 0.11, 95% confidence interval: 0.05, 0.17). Neighborhood-level foreclosure may not uniformly influence high-risk behaviors. The impact of home foreclosure on adult drinking should be further explored, given its potentially negative implications for health.
Source: American Journal of Epidemiology
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwy075
Language: English
Subfield: Health
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
Funders: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Emory University, Drexel University, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, National Institutes of Health, University of California, Los Angeles, National Institute on Aging, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Center for Research Resources, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles
Awards: G1225203148, G1261793039, MESA, G1409423729, G1686417863, G1922428914, G1982334678, G2262782284, MESA, G2585438117, MESA, SUBCLINICAL CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE STUDY--EBCT READING, G3041236093, G3647016462, G3687594596, MESA, G399481048, TITLE: MULTI-ETHNIC STUDY OF ATHEROSCLEROSIS (MESA), G445457422, G4512137732, G4765588100, OPTION 3. 4/1/2014 - 3/31/2015. MULTI-ETHNIC STUDY OF ATHEROSCLEROSIS (MESA) - READING CENTER, NHLBI, MESA, SUBCLINICAL CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE STUDY-ULTRASOUND, G536099884, Neighborhoods and Cardiovascular Risk in a Multiethnic Cohort, G5605591545, G5654179670, G5787256936, G6095866717, G6359107525, MESA, G6514094751, G6921454080, G7003760051, Measuring Health Effects of the Great Recession, MESA, G878552033, G8937114048, G9000031215, G9000065698, G991334795
OpenAlex ID: W2809886281