Neighborhood Social Context and Racial Differences in Women's Heart Disease Mortality

LeClere, Felicia; Rogers, Richard G.; Peters, Kimberley

doi:10.2307/2676393

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“…This association has been demonstrated in many studies in many different countries in individual (Bucher and Ragland 1995;Ellaway et al 1997;Kunst et al 1999;Hemingway et al 2000;Salomaa et al 2000;Wamala 2001) and multilevel (Kleinschmidt et al;Reijneveld 1998;LeClere et al 1998) analyses.…”

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Social capital, the miniaturisation of community, traditionalism and first time acute myocardial infarction: A prospective cohort study in southern Sweden

Ali

Merlo

Rosvall

et al. 2006

Social Science & Medicine

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confidence: 54%

Social capital, the miniaturisation of community, traditionalism and first time acute myocardial infarction: A prospective cohort study in southern Sweden

Ali

Merlo

Rosvall

et al. 2006

Social Science & Medicine

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“…This is consistent with emerging research on the effect of neighborhoods on the health of minorities. [15][16][17][18] Thus, researchers should also be cautious in their use of individual measures alone.…”

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Using aggregate geographic data to proxy individual socioeconomic status: does size matter?

Soobader

LeClere

Hadden³

et al. 2001

Am J Public Health

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A B S T R A C TObjectives. This study assessed whether aggregate-level measures of socioeconomic status (SES) are less biased as proxies for individual-level measures if the unit of geographic aggregation is small in size and population.Methods. National Health Interview Survey and census data were used to replicate analyses that identified the degree to which aggregate proxies of individual SES bias interpretations of the effects of SES on health.Results. Ordinary least squares regressions on self-perceived health showed that the coefficients for income and education measured at the tract and block group levels were larger than those at the individual level but smaller than those estimated by Geronimus et al. at the zip code level.Conclusions. Researchers should be cautious about use of proxy measurement of individual SES even if proxies are calculated from small geographic units. (Am J Public Health. 2001;91:632-636) Mah-jabeen Soobader is with the Department of Pediatrics, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. Felicia B. LeClere is with the

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“…Studies linking residential context to health have found neighborhood characteristics to be significant predictors of various health outcomes and behaviors including mortality (Yen and Kaplan, 1999;Sloggett and Joshi, 1998;LeClere et al, 1998), infectious disease (AcevedoGarcia, 2000(AcevedoGarcia, , 2001, low birthweight (Morenoff, 2003;Roberts, 1997;O'Campo et al, 1997;Sastry, 2003), cigarette smoking (Kleinschmidt et al, 1995;Diez-Roux et al, 2003;Duncan et al, 1999), and consumption level of fruits and vegetables (Morland et al, 2002a), net of individual-level socioeconomic adjustments (c.f. Oreopoulos, 2003;Reijneveld and Schene, 1998;Sloggett and Joshi, 1994).…”

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Neighborhood context and ethnicity differences in body mass index: A multilevel analysis using the NHANES III survey (1988–1994)

Phuong

Dubowitz

Bird

et al. 2007

Economics & Human Biology

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A growing body of literature has documented a link between neighborhood context and health outcomes. However, little is known about the relationship between neighborhood context and body mass index (BMI) or whether the association between neighborhood context and BMI differs by ethnicity. This paper investigates several neighborhood characteristics as potential explanatory factors for the variation of BMI across the United States; further, this paper explores to what extent segregation and the concentration of disadvantage across neighborhoods help explain ethnic disparities in BMI. Using data geo-coded at the census tract-level and linked with individual-level data from the Third National Health and Examination Survey in the United States (U.S.), we find significant variation in BMI across U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, neighborhood characteristics have a significant association with body mass and partially explain ethnic disparities in BMI, net of individual-level adjustments. These data also reveal evidence that ethnic enclaves are not in fact advantageous for the body mass index of Hispanics-a relationship counter to what has been documented for other health outcomes.

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Neighborhood Social Context and Racial Differences in Women's Heart Disease Mortality

Cited by 234 publications

References 38 publications

Social capital, the miniaturisation of community, traditionalism and first time acute myocardial infarction: A prospective cohort study in southern Sweden

Social capital, the miniaturisation of community, traditionalism and first time acute myocardial infarction: A prospective cohort study in southern Sweden

Using aggregate geographic data to proxy individual socioeconomic status: does size matter?

Neighborhood context and ethnicity differences in body mass index: A multilevel analysis using the NHANES III survey (1988–1994)

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