Multilevel Neighborhood Effects
Multilevel models of neighborhood effects estimate how the places people live shape their health, over and above who those people are. Individuals are nested within neighborhoods, so their outcomes are not independent: residents of the same area share an environment and tend to be more alike than residents drawn at random. Ana Diez Roux's foundational synthesis showed that ordinary single-level regression ignores this clustering and conflates contextual effects (features of the place) with compositional effects (the mix of people in it), whereas a hierarchical model with neighborhood random effects separates the two. Juan Merlo and colleagues turned the method into an epidemiological toolkit by reframing the random-effect variance as substantively interpretable measures of variation, such as the variance partition coefficient and the median odds ratio, so that a study can report not only whether a neighborhood characteristic matters on average but how much of the health difference between people is attributable to where they live.
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- Diez Roux, A. V. (2000). Multilevel Analysis in Public Health Research. Annual Review of Public Health, 21, 171-192. · DOI 10.1146/annurev.publhealth.21.1.171
- Merlo, J., Yang, M., Chaix, B., Lynch, J., & Rastam, L. (2005). A brief conceptual tutorial on multilevel analysis in social epidemiology: investigating contextual phenomena in different groups of people. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 59(9), 729-736. · DOI 10.1136/jech.2004.023929
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