Is segregation bad for your health?

MR Kramer, CR Hogue - Epidemiologic reviews, 2009 - academic.oup.com
For decades, racial residential segregation has been observed to vary with health outcomes
for African Americans, although only recently has interest increased in the public health …

Ethnic density effects on physical morbidity, mortality, and health behaviors: a systematic review of the literature

L Bécares, R Shaw, J Nazroo… - … journal of public …, 2012 - ajph.aphapublications.org
It has been suggested that people in racial/ethnic minority groups are healthier when they
live in areas with a higher concentration of people from their own ethnic group, a so-called …

Social determinants of risk and outcomes for cardiovascular disease: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association

EP Havranek, MS Mujahid, DA Barr, IV Blair… - Circulation, 2015 - Am Heart Assoc
874 Circulation September 1, 2015 references are intended to be illustrative and to highlight
significant knowledge in the field. The premise underlying this scientific statement is that, at …

Public health monitoring of privilege and deprivation with the index of concentration at the extremes

N Krieger, PD Waterman… - … journal of public …, 2016 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. We evaluated use of the Index of Concentration at the Extremes (ICE) for public
health monitoring. Methods. We used New York City data centered around 2010 to assess …

Neighborhood-level racial/ethnic residential segregation and incident cardiovascular disease: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis

KN Kershaw, TL Osypuk, DP Do, PJ De Chavez… - Circulation, 2015 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—Previous research suggests that neighborhood-level racial/ethnic residential
segregation is linked to health, but it has not been studied prospectively in relation to …

Environmental health disparities in housing

DE Jacobs - American journal of public health, 2011 - ajph.aphapublications.org
The physical infrastructure and housing make human interaction possible and provide
shelter. How well that infrastructure performs and which groups it serves have important …

Local residential segregation matters: stronger association of census tract compared to conventional city-level measures with fatal and non-fatal assaults (total and …

N Krieger, JM Feldman, PD Waterman, JT Chen… - Journal of urban …, 2017 - Springer
Research on residential segregation and health, primarily conducted in the USA, has chiefly
employed city or regional measures of racial segregation. To test our hypothesis that …

Race, ethnicity, income concentration and 10-year change in urban greenness in the United States

JA Casey, P James, L Cushing, BM Jesdale… - International journal of …, 2017 - mdpi.com
Background: Cross-sectional studies suggest urban greenness is unequally distributed by
neighborhood demographics. However, the extent to which inequalities in greenness have …

Neighbourhood economic deprivation explains racial/ethnic disparities in overweight and obesity among children and adolescents in the USA

LM Rossen - J Epidemiol Community Health, 2014 - jech.bmj.com
Background Low-income and some racial and ethnic subpopulations are more likely to
suffer from obesity. Inequities in the physical and social environment may contribute to …

Relation between neighborhood environments and obesity in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis

MS Mujahid, AVD Roux, M Shen… - American journal of …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
This study investigated associations between neighborhood physical and social
environments and body mass index in 2,865 participants of the Multi-Ethnic Study of …