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ReviewHealth & place2011

Racial/ethnic residential segregation: framing the context of health risk and health disparities.

Kellee White, Luisa N Borrell

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Review in Health & place, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 192 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
192citing papers in PubMed, 5 pooled it
8.2field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

192 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 325 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. A Systematic Review of Organizational Assessments Related to Racism and Equity.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2024
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  3. Inequalities in noise will affect urban wildlife.Nature ecology & evolution · 2024
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  16. Racialized economic segregation in relation to fecundability in a preconception cohort study.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2026
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  20. Alternative Approaches to Characterizing Disparate Care by Race, Ethnicity, and Insurance Between Hospitals.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025
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132 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Kellee WhiteDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of South Carolina Arnold School of Public Health, 800 Sumter Street, Suite 205, Columbia, SC 29208, USA. kwhite@mailbox.sc.edu
Luisa N Borrell
Lehman College · USUniversity of South Carolina Sumter · US

Funding

MEASURING & DOCUMENTING DISPARITIES IN ORAL HEALTH: A PRACTICAL APPROACHR03DE017901 · NIDCR · HERBERT H. LEHMAN COLLEGE · PI BORRELL, LUISA N · 2007 to 2008
$324k
NIDCR NIH HHS R03 DE017901
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An increasing body of public health literature links patterns of racial/ethnic residential segregation to health status and health disparities. Despite substantial new empirical work, meaningful understanding of the pathways through which segregation operates to influence health remains elusive. The literature on segregation and health was appraised with an emphasis on select conceptual, methodological, and analytical issues. Recommendations for advancing the next generation of racial/ethnic residential segregation and health research will require closer attention to sharpening the methodology of measuring segregation, testing mediating pathways and effect modification, incorporating stronger test of causality, exploring factors of resilience in segregated areas, applying a life-course perspective, broadening the scope of the investigation of segregation to include nativity status in blacks and other racial/ethnic groups, and linking segregation measures with biological data.

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Health Status DisparitiesRacial GroupsResidence CharacteristicsCensusesHealth Status IndicatorsHumansPopulation DensityPrejudiceRisk AssessmentSocioeconomic Factors

Identifiers

PMID21236721
PMCPMC3056936
OpenAlexW2070054180

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