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Eviction as a community health exposure

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ID4595686
AuthorsGabriel L Schwartz (0000-0001-8299-1407), Kathryn M Leifheit (0000-0003-3980-9715), Mariana C Arcaya (0000-0003-1806-3264), Danya Keene (0000-0002-7612-8292)
Year2024
Volume340
Pages116496
Publication date2024-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Science & Medicine (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0277-9536 • E-ISSN: 1873-5347
PublisherElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116496
PMID38091853
OpenAlexW4389455644
LanguageEN
Citations received22
References cited115

Evidence suggests that being evicted harms health. Largely ignored in the existing literature is the possibility that evictions exert community-level health effects, affecting evicted individuals' social networks and shaping broader community conditions. In this narrative review, we summarize evidence and lay out a theoretical model for eviction as a community health exposure, mediated through four paths: 1) shifting ecologies of infectious disease and health behaviors, 2) disruption of neighborhood social cohesion, 3) strain on social networks, and 4) increasing salience of eviction risk. We describe methods for parsing eviction's individual and contextual effects and discuss implications for causal inference. We conclude by addressing eviction's potentially multilevel consequences for policy advocacy and cost-benefit analyses

Cognitive psychology · Criminology · Economics · Eviction · Political science · Public economics · Salience (neuroscience · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations · Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes · Homelessness and Social Issues · Psychology · Law · Social Psychology

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Citation span2024 - 2026 (3)
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