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. 2017 Jun:99:118-127.
doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2017.02.014. Epub 2017 Feb 16.

Association between socioeconomic and physical/built neighborhoods and disability: A systematic review

Ana Lúcia Danielewicz  1 , Juliana Cristine Dos Anjos  2 , João Luiz Bastos  3 , Alexandra Crispim Boing  3 , Antonio Fernando Boing  3
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Association between socioeconomic and physical/built neighborhoods and disability: A systematic review

Ana Lúcia Danielewicz et al. Prev Med. 2017 Jun.

Abstract

The aim of this systematic review was to assess the association between the characteristics of the socioeconomic and physical/built neighborhoods and disability in basic activities of daily living (ADL) and/or instrumental activities of daily living (IADL). Six databases were searched. Fourteen from the 1811 identified studies were included. Neighborhoods with socioeconomic disadvantage were associated with ADL/IADL disabilities in 7 out of the 11 studies with this objective. Worst features of the physical/built neighborhoods were associated with disabilities in only 3 of the 7 studies that investigated this. Relative to the physical/built, the socioeconomic neighborhood and ADL/IADL disabilities were more consistently associated in the still scarcely available literature on the subject.

Keywords: Activities of daily living; Disability; Environment design; Neighborhoods; Systematic review.

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