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Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-22-2023
Abstract
Healthcare systems are increasingly investing in approaches to address social determinants of health and health disparities. Such initiatives dovetail with certain approaches to neighborhood development, such as the EcoDistrict standard for community development, that prioritize both ecologically and socially sustainable neighborhoods. However, healthcare system and community development initiatives can be untethered from the preferences and lived realities of residents in the very neighborhoods upon which they focus. Utilizing the go-along approach to collecting qualitative data in situ, we interviewed 19 adults to delineate residents' community health perspectives and priorities. Findings reveal health priorities distinct from clinical outcomes, with residents emphasizing social connectedness, competing intra- and interneighborhood perceptions that potentially thwart social connectedness, and a neighborhood emplacement of agency, dignity, and self-worth. Priorities of healthcare systems and community members alike must be accounted for to optimize efforts that promote health and social well-being by being valid and meaningful to the community of focus.
Keywords
EcoDistricts, health care system, health experience, neighborhood, looking glass, place, social care, urban redevelopment
Publication Title
American Journal of Community Psychology
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© 2023 The Authors. American Journal of Community Psychology published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Society for Community Research and Action.
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Berg, K. A., DeRenzo, M.,Carpiano, R. M., Lowenstein, I., & Perzynski, A. T.(2023). Go‐along interview assessment of communityhealth priorities for neighborhood renewal. American Journal of Community Psychology, 71, 437–452. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12661