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In this chapter we will provide examples of data that has been linked to GIS or appended to ecological characteristics and undertake the analyses previously introduced. Here we present an example of the relationship between poverty, stress levels, and self-rated health within a hierarchical linear model (HLM) context. In this analysis we show that individual level stress negatively effects perceptions of their own health. This health perception is further impacted by the ecological environment in which they live, partly by the neighborhood poverty rate. This represents the issues associated with the containment of individuals within a specific neighborhood context and the effect that ecological containment has in effecting individual level phenomena (i.e. perceived level of health).
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These data were obtained by special request from the GIS Unit of the Atlanta Police Department.
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Porter, J.R., Howell, F.M. (2012). Geo-Sociology in Practice. In: Geographical Sociology. GeoJournal Library, vol 105. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-3849-2_8
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