External Effects of Mental Health Facilities∗
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8375537 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Dear (McMaster University), Martin Taylor (0000-0001-8880-5417, McMaster University), S MARTIN TAYLOR, G B Hall (0000-0002-8068-9973, McMaster University) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 342-352 |
| Publication date | 1980-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annals of the Association of American Geographers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-5608 • E-ISSN: 1467-8306 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-8306.1980.tb01318.x |
| OpenAlex | W2013085721 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
| References cited | 9 |
Analysis of a 1,090-household survey in metropolitan Toronto, Ontario, shows that community mental health facilities generate externality fields that include such effects as fears of the negative impact on property values, traffic volumes, and residential satisfaction. There are also strongly neutral respondents who do not anticipate any impact on their neighborhoods. The spatial extent of the externality effect of mental health facilities appears to be highly confined, perhaps to an area within six blocks of the facility. Behavioral adjustments by a population as a consequence of mental health facility location are small, although as proximity to facility increases, so does the propensity to participate in group-based opposition tactics. Although mental health facilities are regarded as noxious by proximate residents, they also appear to be endowed with some aura of social worth or merit. It may be that opposition to such facilities is limited to a vociferous minority whose views are not necessarily representative of the wider community
Demographic economics · Economics · Environmental health · Externality · Geography · Mental health · Metropolitan area · Opposition (politics) · Political science · Politics · Population · Psychiatry · Public economics · Homelessness and Social Issues · Medicine · Psychology · Urban Transport and Accessibility · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
Community and the geography of people with intellectual disability
Présentation
Understanding and Overcoming the Nimby Syndrome
Service Dependent Ghetto formation—a transferable concept
Rural madness
Nimby Attitudes, Homelessness, and Sanctioned Encampments
Planning Supported Housing
Neighborhood Responses to Stigmatized Urban Facilities
Disability studies in human geography
Environmental Perception
Community care and disability
Progress Report
The externality fields of football grounds
The Nimby syndrome and community care facilities
From distributions of deviance to definitions of difference
Across the water
The Choice Agenda in Disability Housing Provision
White Nimbyism and diversity close to home
Resident action groups in Sydney
Intended-Mobility Responses to Inner-City School Closure
The Geographies of Disability
A Causal Model of Attitudes toward Mental Health Facilities
Hanging Around in Their Brokenness
Rings of madness
Resistance to a Residential Aids Home
Public Attitudes Toward Mental Illness
The relocation of released mental hospital patients into residential communities
Impact of mental health facilities on property values
Factors Affecting Response to Road Noise
Residential Neighborhoods as Humane Environments
Measuring the External Effects of Public Programs
Accessibility and Public Facility Location
| Citations per year | 0.56 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1981 - 2024 (44) |
| Highly cited | No |