• Hungarian forint
  • Budapest
  • Police news
  • HelloMagyar
dnh_logo_feher2dnh_logo_feher2dnh_logo_feher2dnh_logo_feher2
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Society
  • Sport
  • Culture
  • Special Hungary
  • News To Go
  • World
  • Contact Us
  • About us
  • About us
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy
✕
Breaking News
Support us
Daily News Hungary Daily News Hungary · 06/12/2019
· News To Go

“Third places” outside home, work may support well-being

economy research United States
café coffee

Photo: www.facebook.com/MadalCafé

Places that provide opportunities for socialization may support health and well-being through entertainment, support, protection and care, according to a study posted on the website of the University of Michigan (UM) this week.

The sites outside the home or work that play vital and life-saving roles in communities are called by researchers as “third places.” Coffee shops and cafes, bars, barbershops, bowling alleys and laundromats serve as affordable places for people to meet.

To get a sense of how significantly the 2008 recession impacted these third places, UM researchers combed the National Establishment Time-Series, a database that provides annual records of the U.S. economy.

The database provides detailed information for more than 60 million private for-profit and nonprofit establishments, as well as government agencies, from 1990 to 2015.

The researchers found that, from 2008 to 2015, establishments such as grocery stores and convenience stores decreased by 23 percent, and religious organizations by 17 percent. The researchers found that most types of third places have declined, with the exception of eateries.

“Not everyone wants to go to a senior center or a community center for social interaction. Third spaces provide opportunities for social engagement, informal social support, and shelter from heat waves or cold spells, all for the cost of a cup of coffee,” said senior author Philippa Clarke, a professor of epidemiology in the School of Public Health.

“The potential loss of these places may have direct consequences for health and isolation among the more vulnerable members of society,” Clarke said.

UM postdoctoral researcher Jessica Finlay, a fellow at the Institute for Social Research’s Survey Research Center and lead author of the study, said that even retail stores can be important to the livelihood of older adults.

“If you think historically, tracing all the way back to plazas where people gathered thousands of years ago up to present-day sites, these are usually fairly ordinary, affordable places that could impact someone’s overall sense of wellness,” Finlay said.
The study was published in the journal Health & Place.

Xinhua – CHICAGO

economy research United States
Share

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

About us

Contact us

Copyright rules

© 2023 DailyNewsHungary. All rights reserved! | Server and development by Svigelj Levente E.V
Daily News Hungary
Manage Cookie Consent
Like all websites, Daily News Hungary uses cookies to provide you with a more pleasant experience when you visit our Website. Because we are committed to keeping your information secure, this Notice explains exactly what cookies we use, for what purposes, under what conditions and for how long.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage vendors Read more about these purposes
View preferences
{title} {title} {title}