Neighborhood, Social Environment Matters to Mental Health

Moving from a high-poverty to lower-poverty neighborhood leads to long-term improvements in physical and mental health and subjective well-being finds a study appearing online yesterday in Science. Researchers from the University of Michigan collected data on participants in the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) program, a randomized housing mobility experiment. From 1994 to 1998, MTO enrolled 4,604 low-income public-housing families living in high-poverty neighborhoods in five cities. Families were randomized to three groups: one received vouchers for rent in certain more affluent neighborhoods, one received rent vouchers that could be used anywhere; and a control group that received...

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Published By: Psychiatric News - Friday, 21 September

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