Improving mental health through neighbourhood regeneration: the role of cohesion, belonging, quality and disorder

Greene, Giles ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9326-8740, Fone, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6476-4881, Farewell, Daniel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8871-1653, Rodgers, Sarah, Paranjothy, Shantini ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0528-3121, Carter, Bethan and White, James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8371-8453 2020. Improving mental health through neighbourhood regeneration: the role of cohesion, belonging, quality and disorder. European Journal of Public Health 30 (5) , pp. 964-966. 10.1093/eurpub/ckz221

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Abstract

Poor mental health has been associated with socioeconomic deprivation. The aim was to describe possible mechanisms underpinning the narrowing of mental health inequalities demonstrated by Communities First, an area-wide regeneration programme in Wales, UK. Propensity score matched data from the Caerphilly Health and Social Needs Electronic Cohort Study, assessed changes in mental health, neighbourhood-level social cohesion, belongingness, quality and disorder. A multiple mediation analysis found c.76% of the total indirect effect was accounted for by neighbourhood quality and disorder. Targeted regeneration that increases neighbourhood quality and reduced neighbourhood disorder could mitigate the mental health inequalities associated with socioeconomic deprivation.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
ISSN:	1101-1262
Funders:	MRC
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	18 November 2019
Date of Acceptance:	14 November 2019
Last Modified:	25 Oct 2023 06:22
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/126919

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