TY - JOUR AU - Gruebner, Oliver AU - Khan, MdMobarak H. AU - Lautenbach, Sven AU - Müller, Daniel AU - Kraemer, Alexander AU - Lakes, Tobia AU - Hostert, Patrick PY - 2011 DA - 2011/05/20 TI - A spatial epidemiological analysis of self-rated mental health in the slums of Dhaka JO - International Journal of Health Geographics SP - 36 VL - 10 IS - 1 AB - The deprived physical environments present in slums are well-known to have adverse health effects on their residents. However, little is known about the health effects of the social environments in slums. Moreover, neighbourhood quantitative spatial analyses of the mental health status of slum residents are still rare. The aim of this paper is to study self-rated mental health data in several slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh, by accounting for neighbourhood social and physical associations using spatial statistics. We hypothesised that mental health would show a significant spatial pattern in different population groups, and that the spatial patterns would relate to spatially-correlated health-determining factors (HDF). SN - 1476-072X UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1476-072X-10-36 DO - 10.1186/1476-072X-10-36 ID - Gruebner2011 ER -