ArticleEnvironmental monitoring and assessment2019
Lost in the Black Belt South: health outcomes and transportation infrastructure.
Article in Environmental monitoring and assessment, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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.
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.
Who cites it
9 citing papers in PubMed.
- Challenges in estimating effects of hypothetical interventions on resources patterned by structural racism: an example in a rural North Carolina Medicaid population.American journal of epidemiology · 2026Article
- Measuring change in domains of health-related quality of life and well-being in Black or African American adolescent football athletes from rural communities across a single football season.Journal of clinical and translational science · 2026Article
- Rural Alabamians' Unmet Medical Needs: Rethinking the Roles of Online Health Information-Seeking Behaviors.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Article
- A Roadmap for Sustainable Community-Engaged Partnerships in Athletic Training and Using a Traveling Athletic Training Camp as an Implementation Strategy.Journal of athletic training · 2024Article
- Important Barriers to COVID-19 Vaccination Among African Americans in Black Belt Region.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2024Article
- Harvest for health in survivors of chronic disease: A demonstration project in the Alabama Black Belt and Mississippi Delta Region.Translational behavioral medicine · 2024Article
- Breastfeeding, Community Vulnerability, Resilience, and Disasters: A Snapshot of the United States Gulf Coast.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Pathways linking childhood trauma to rural, unmarried, African American father involvement through oxytocin receptor gene methylation.Developmental psychology · 2020Article
- Geospatial technology in environmental health applications.Environmental monitoring and assessment · 2019Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
Abstract
The importance of transportation infrastructure to health outcomes has been increasingly recognized. However, the relationship between transportation and health is underexplored in rural areas. This study fills the gap by investigating rural health outcomes in association with two transportation infrastructures-highways and airports-in the Black Belt counties of the USA, a region characterized as predominantly rural and black and as having high poverty and unemployment. Spatial regression models are applied to analyze the 2010 data. The results suggest Black Belt counties have poorer health outcomes than their non-Black Belt counterparts, and the difference increases as the percentage of blacks increases. The results also show that the higher accessibility to an airport a county has, the better its health outcomes. Highways, however, do not have a statistically significant association with health outcomes. The poor health outcomes in the Black Belt counties are also influenced by poverty, rurality, unemployment, and low educational attainment. This research was the first to study transportation, especially airports, in the rural US South with relation to health outcomes. Our findings shed new light on removing the health disadvantages accumulated in the Black Belt.
Indexed as
Identifiers
31254079What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.