The past few years have witnessed an explosion of interest in neighborhood or area effects
on health. Several types of empiric studies have been used to examine possible area or …

Features of neighborhoods or residential environments may affect health and contribute to
social and race/ethnic inequalities in health. The study of neighborhood health effects has …

A large portion of current epidemiologic research is based on methodologic individualism:
the notion that the distribution of health and disease in populations can be explained …

In 2004, the first American Heart Association scientific statement on “Air Pollution and
Cardiovascular Disease” concluded that exposure to particulate matter (PM) air pollution …

The authors investigated whether neighborhood socioeconomic charactenstics are associated
with coronary heart disease prevalence and risk factors, whether these associations …

… AV Diez Roux reviewed and revised all drafts of the article. … Moore and Ana V. Diez Roux
are with the Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, University of Michigan, Ann …

… Diez-Roux c , Sally Macintyre d … Ana V. Diez Roux is funded in part by R24 HD047861
and by the Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar's Program. …

… Ana Diez-Roux Ana Diez-Roux is an epidemiologist whose work has focused on the …
Diez-Roux's empirical work has focused on the social determinants of cardiovascular risk …

The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis was initiated in July 2000 to investigate the prevalence,
correlates, and progression of subclinical cardiovascular disease (CVD) in a population…

▪ Abstract Over the past few years there has been growing interest in considering factors
defined at multiple levels in public health research. Multilevel analysis has emerged as one …