Litigating health risks: Assessing the impact of legal services to combat housing and neighborhood -related health risks
Journal: eCommons (Cornell University)
Year: 2010

The present dissertation considers the interaction between housing and neighborhood challenges that trigger health risks and examines the effectiveness of legal services as a resource tool for at-risk families in improving child and family health. This dissertation offers a detailed analysis of the home and neighborhood contexts based on 72 ethnographic interviews with low-income mothers residing in an inner-city neighborhood- Dorchester, MA. This project is also nested within a larger program e