TY - JOUR
T1 - Residential segregation and racial disparities in self-rated health
T2 - How do dimensions of residential segregation matter?
AU - Yang, Tse Chuan
AU - Zhao, Yunhan
AU - Song, Qian
N1 - Funding Information:
We acknowledge the support from the Center for Social and Demographic Analysis at the University at Albany, which is supported by the National Institutes of Health (NICHD, R24 HD04494309 ). In addition, we thank the anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments and helpful suggestions.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2017/1/1
Y1 - 2017/1/1
N2 - Previous research on segregation and health has been criticized for overlooking the fact that segregation is a multi-dimensional concept (i.e., evenness, exposure, concentration, centralization, and clustering) and recent evidence drawn from non-black minorities challenges the conventional belief that residential segregation widens racial health disparities. Combining a survey data (n = 18,752) from Philadelphia with the 2010 Census tract (n = 925) data, we examine two theoretical frameworks to understand why the association of segregation with health may differ by race/ethnicity. Specifically, we investigate how each dimension of segregation contributed to racial disparities in self-rated health. We found (1) high levels of white/black concentration could exacerbate the white/black health disparities up to 25 percent, (2) the white/Hispanic health disparities was narrowed by increasing the level of white/Hispanic centralization, and (3) no single dimension of segregation statistically outperforms others. Our findings supported that segregation is bad for blacks but may be beneficial for Hispanics.
AB - Previous research on segregation and health has been criticized for overlooking the fact that segregation is a multi-dimensional concept (i.e., evenness, exposure, concentration, centralization, and clustering) and recent evidence drawn from non-black minorities challenges the conventional belief that residential segregation widens racial health disparities. Combining a survey data (n = 18,752) from Philadelphia with the 2010 Census tract (n = 925) data, we examine two theoretical frameworks to understand why the association of segregation with health may differ by race/ethnicity. Specifically, we investigate how each dimension of segregation contributed to racial disparities in self-rated health. We found (1) high levels of white/black concentration could exacerbate the white/black health disparities up to 25 percent, (2) the white/Hispanic health disparities was narrowed by increasing the level of white/Hispanic centralization, and (3) no single dimension of segregation statistically outperforms others. Our findings supported that segregation is bad for blacks but may be beneficial for Hispanics.
KW - Ethnic community
KW - Philadelphia
KW - Place stratification
KW - Racial segregation
KW - Self-rated health
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2016.06.011
DO - 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2016.06.011
M3 - Article
C2 - 27886735
AN - SCOPUS:84996483411
SN - 0049-089X
VL - 61
SP - 29
EP - 42
JO - Social Science Research
JF - Social Science Research
ER -