Department of Health Policy & Public Health, University of the Sciences. 600S. 43rd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-4495, USA.
Health Place. 2012 May;18(3):621-9. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2011.12.011. Epub 2012 Jan 3.
This study assesses whether there are differences in geographic access to and availability of a range of different amenities for a large group of persons diagnosed with severe mental illness (SMI) in Philadelphia (USA) when compared to a more general set of residential addresses. The 15,246 persons who comprised the study group had better outcomes than an equal number of geographical points representative of the general Philadelphia population on measures of geographic proximity and availability for resources considered important by people diagnosed with SMI. These findings provide support for the presence of geographic prerequisites for attaining meaningful levels of community integration.
本研究评估了与更广泛的居住地址相比，在美国费城被诊断患有严重精神疾病 (SMI) 的一大群人在获得一系列不同便利设施的地理可达性和可及性方面是否存在差异。研究组的 15246 人在地理接近度和资源可及性方面的衡量标准上比同等数量的代表费城一般人群的地理点表现出更好的结果，这些资源被被诊断患有 SMI 的人认为是重要的。这些发现为实现有意义的社区融合水平存在地理先决条件提供了支持。
