ReviewJournal of racial and ethnic health disparities2018
Neighborhood Disadvantage, Residential Segregation, and Beyond-Lessons for Studying Structural Racism and Health.
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122 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Biopsychosocial and Environmental Factors That Impact Brain-Gut-Microbiome Interactions in Obesity.Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association · 2026Pooled it
- Area-Level Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Health Care Spending: A Systematic Review.JAMA network open · 2024Pooled it
- Structural racism and adverse maternal health outcomes: A systematic review.Health & place · 2022Pooled it
- Associations of housing stress with later substance use outcomes: A systematic review.Addictive behaviors · 2021Pooled it
- Cognitive behavioral stress management effects on cancer-related distress and neuroendocrine signaling in breast cancer: differential effects by neighborhood disadvantage.Breast cancer research and treatment · 2025Trial
- Census Block Group Demographics, Mobility Patterns, and Pharmacy Visits.JAMA network open · 2026Article
- A Multidimensional Approach to Measure Structural Racism and Its Association with Fatal and Nonfatal Community Firearm Violence at the Census Tract Level in New York City.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2026Article
- Upstream Factors Associated With Hospitalization in Black- and Minority-Serving Hospitals.JAMA network open · 2026Observational
- Associations between neighborhood disadvantage, cannabis use, and patient-reported outcomes among patients with cancer.Drug and alcohol dependence reports · 2026Article
- Relationship Between Residential Racial and Economic Segregation and Main Causes of Death in US Counties.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- The Impact of Social Factors on the Benefits of Breastfeeding.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- Person-environment interaction processes in frailty: a scoping review.The Gerontologist · 2026Article
- "The community's memory is timeless": exploring cultural and community context to inform the public health response to the overdose crisis in black communities.Harm reduction journal · 2026Article
- Neighborhood Stress in Relation to Mental Health Symptoms and the Moderating Role of Perceived Stress in US Young Adults.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- Structural Racism, Geographies of Opportunity, and Maternal Health Inequities: A Dynamic Conceptual Framework.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- The Association Between Neighborhood Factors and Early Organ Dysfunction in Children Who Are Critically Ill: A Retrospective Cohort Study.The Journal of pediatrics · 2026Article
- Associations between food retailer availability and violent crime by neighborhood SES in Chicago, IL: an ecological study.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Independent and joint associations of key social exposome components with cognitive aging: triangulating evidence through cross-national data.American journal of epidemiology · 2026Article
- Impact of structural and interpersonal racism on oral health and dental services.Revista de saude publica · 2026Article
- Weathering the STORM and Forecasting Equity for Older Black Women: Expanding Social Determinants of Health.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
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Abstract
A recent surge of interest in identifying the health effects of structural racism has coincided with the ongoing attention to neighborhood effects in both epidemiology and sociology. Mindful of these currents in the literature, it makes sense that we are seeing an emergent tendency in health disparities research to operationalize structural racism as either neighborhood disadvantage or racial residential segregation. This review essay synthesizes findings on the relevance of neighborhood disadvantage and residential segregation to the study of structural racism and health. It then draws on recent literature to propose four lessons for moving beyond traditional neighborhood effects approaches in the study of structural racism and health. These lessons are (1) to shift the focus of research from census tracts to theoretically meaningful units of analysis, (2) to leverage historic and geographic variation in race relations, (3) to combine data from multiple sources, and (4) to challenge normative framing that aims to explain away racial health disparities without discussing racism or racial hierarchy. The author concludes that research on the health effects of structural racism should go beyond traditional neighborhood effects approaches if it is to guide intervention to reduce racial and ethnic health disparities.
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