University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
Public Health. 2012 Mar;126(3):259-261. doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2011.12.008. Epub 2012 Feb 9.
Urban populations around the world face increasingly common health problems. This is partly because of common spatial and socio-economic factors that result in substantial inequalities in health among urban populations. Spatial methods can now map out dimensions of urban living, such as the segregation of poor communities as a result of population concentration of poverty in deprived neighbourhoods. Even in rich countries such as the UK, separate from the health disadvantages of living in a poor neighbourhood, if you live in a neighbourhood that is surrounded by deprivation, you have a higher risk of mortality. However, neighbourhood deprivation is not synonymous with poor social capital. Some communities can be resilient to the health-damaging aspects of living in a poor neighbourhood if they have access to social support and other social ties.
世界各地的城市人口面临着越来越常见的健康问题。这部分是由于共同的空间和社会经济因素，导致城市人口的健康状况存在着巨大的不平等。空间方法现在可以描绘出城市生活的各个方面，例如由于贫困社区人口集中在贫困社区而导致的贫困社区的隔离。即使在英国等富裕国家，除了居住在贫困社区带来的健康劣势之外，如果你居住在一个被贫困包围的社区，你也有更高的死亡率风险。然而，社区贫困并不等同于社会资本匮乏。如果一些社区能够获得社会支持和其他社会联系，那么它们就能够抵御居住在贫困社区对健康造成的损害。
