Background: Neighborhoods are critical to understanding how environments influence
health outcomes. Prolonged environmental stressors, such as a lack of green spaces and …

With global aging, the number of elderly with physical disabilities is also increasing.
Compared with the ordinary elderly, the elderly who lose their independence are more likely …

Childhood maltreatment (CM) is associated with several negative outcomes in adulthood,
including major depression. People who experience CM that go on to develop symptoms of …

Over the past two decades, numerous studies have linked the subjective experience of
neighborhood disorder (perceptions of crime, dilapidation and ambient strains) with poorer …

A growing body of literature has established a relationship between neighborhood
perceptions and both physical and mental health outcomes, yet there remains a need to …

Few have examined mechanisms explaining the link between perceived neighborhood
unsafety, neighborhood social processes, and depressive symptoms for Black adolescents …

Living conditions are an important modifier of individual health outcomes and may lead to
higher allostatic load (AL). However, housing-induced cardiovascular and immune effects …

Background: Cancer is one of the leading causes of death in the United States. It is critical to
understand the associations among multilevel determinants of cancer prevention and …

The science of well-being covered in this chapter involves a eudaimonic model I developed
over three decades ago (Ryf, 1989). In contrast to hedonic approaches, which emphasize …

Introduction Individuals from disadvantaged social positions experience poorer mental
health than their peers from advantaged social positions. One biological mechanism by …