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. 2018 Feb;42(1):112-133.
doi: 10.1177/0309132516649454. Epub 2016 May 19.

Residential mobility: Towards progress in mobility health research

Tim Morris  1 , David Manley  2 , Clive E Sabel  1
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Residential mobility: Towards progress in mobility health research

Tim Morris et al. Prog Hum Geogr. 2018 Feb.

Abstract

Research into health disparities has long recognized the importance of residential mobility as a crucial factor in determining health outcomes. However, a lack of connectivity between the health and mobility literatures has led to a stagnation of theory and application on the health side, which lacks the detail and temporal perspectives now seen as critical to understanding residential mobility decisions. Through a critical re-think of mobility processes with respect to health outcomes and an exploitation of longitudinal analytical techniques, we argue that health geographers have the potential to better understand and identify the relationship that residential mobility has with health.

Keywords: adverse life events; childhood; health behavior; mental health; migration; residential mobility.

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Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of conflicting interests: The UK Economic and Social Research Council and the University of Bristol had no role in the design or writing of this article. This publication is the work of the authors, and Tim Morris will serve as guarantor for the contents of this paper.

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