Local Residential Segregation Matters: Stronger Association of Census Tract Compared to Conventional City-Level Measures with Fatal and Non-Fatal Assaults (Total and Firearm Related), Using the Index of Concentration at the Extremes (ICE) for Racial, Economic, and Racialized Economic Segregation, Massachusetts (US), 1995–2010

Journal of Urban Health

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 244-258

  Krieger, Nancy ^a   Feldman, Justin M ^a   Waterman, Pamela D ^a   Chen, Jarvis T ^a   Coull, Brent A ^a   Hemenway, David ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Assault; Economic segregation; Firearm; Health inequities; Income inequality; Index of Concentration at the Extremes; Racial inequality; Racial segregation; Spatial polarization; Violence

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANCESTRY GROUP; CHILD; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FIREARM; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION RESEARCH; POVERTY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; URBAN HEALTH; URBAN POPULATION; VIOLENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CENSUSES; CHILD; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FIREARMS; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN HEALTH; URBAN POPULATION; VIOLENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85010788236     PISSN: 10993460     EISSN: 14682869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11524-016-0116-z     Document Type: Article

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