Neighborhood and Built Environment

Question 1

What is the physical environment?

Answer 1

built and natural environment - built = human made
natural = physical conditions

Question 2

What is the social environment?

Answer 2

social relationships among residents

Question 3

What is the service environment?

Answer 3

neighborhood resources directly or indirectly tied to health (transit services, rec facilities, businesses)

Question 4

What is contextual influence?

Answer 4

features of the neighborhood

Question 5

What is compositional influence?

Answer 5

the individuals that live in the neighborhood

Question 6

What should we focus on - contextual or compositional influence?

Answer 6

Contextual

Question 7

T or F - ALL residents of high-poverty communities are low-income

Answer 7

False

Question 8

What is residential segregation?

Answer 8

sorting population groups into various neighborhood contexts

Question 9

Strategies to make neighborhoods healthier

Answer 9

Bring retail food markets into disadvantaged communities - create jobs and increase access to healthy foods, planning and zoning near shopping areas, public transportation, and employment possibilities, community revitalization - promote neighborhood economic development, community organizing, reduce toxins, reduce residential segregation with fair housing laws, zoning measures, etc.