Residential segregation and racial disparities in self-rated health: How do dimensions of residential segregation matter?

Social Science Research

Volumn 61, Issue , 2017, Pages 29-42

  Yang, Tse Chuan ^a   Zhao, Yunhan ^a   Song, Qian ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnic community; Philadelphia; Place stratification; Racial segregation; Self rated health

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ANCESTRY GROUP; CAUCASIAN; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC GROUP; HEALTH DISPARITY; HISPANIC; HOUSING; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUP; PENNSYLVANIA; POPULATION RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RACISM; SELF EVALUATION; SOCIAL SEGREGATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; CENSUSES; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DIAGNOSTIC SELF EVALUATION; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HOUSING; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; PHILADELPHIA; RACISM; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL SEGREGATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84996483411     PISSN: 0049089X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2016.06.011     Document Type: Article

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