title: Does poor health predict moving, move quality, and desire to move?: A study examining neighborhood selection in US adolescents and adults.
abstract: To date, research has rarely considered the role of health in shaping characteristics of the neighborhood, including mobility patterns. We explored whether individual health status shapes and constrains where individuals live. Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health data, we examined whether 16 health indicators predicted moving, move quality, and desire to move. 3.8% of adolescents (n=490) reported a move in the past year. In the unadjusted models, 10 health indicators were associated with moving; the magnitude of association for these health indicators was similar to socio-demographic characteristics. 7 of these health-moving associations persisted after adjusting for covariates. Health was also associated with moving quality, with a greater number of past year health problems in the child being associated with moving to a lower income neighborhood and parent disability or poor health being associated with moving to a higher income neighborhood. Almost every poor health status indicator was associated with a greater desire to move. Findings suggest that health status influences moving, and a reciprocal framework is more appropriate for examining health-neighborhood linkages.
authors.affiliation: Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA.
authors.forename: Erin C
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: Dunn
authors.affiliation: Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston 02115, MA, USA.
authors.forename: Ashley
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Winning
authors.affiliation: Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA.
authors.forename: Natalya
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Zaika
authors.affiliation: Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston 02115, MA, USA. Electronic address: SVSUBRAM@hsph.harvard.edu.
authors.forename: S V
authors.initials: SV
authors.lastname: Subramanian
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Desire to move; Health; Move quality; Moving; Neighborhood selection