For decades, racial residential segregation has been observed to vary with health outcomes
for African Americans, although only recently has interest increased in the public health …

Background This paper provides the first review of empirical studies of segregation and
black-white cancer disparities. Methods We searched all years of PubMed (through May …

Abstract The late 2000s Great Recession brought rising neighborhood poverty in the midst
of affluence, and the reemergence of a racial and ethnic “underclass” living in inner-city …

Objective To examine the association between residential segregation and geographic
access to primary care physicians (PCPs) in metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs). Data …

There are well-known Black-White disparities in adverse birth outcomes, health behaviors,
and chronic diseases such as asthma, diabetes, and hypertension. These disparities hold …

Few studies have undertaken rigorous comparative analyses of levels of ethnic residential
segregation across two or more countries. Using data for the latest available censuses …

Socio-spatial segregation is the physical separation of different social, economic, or
demographic groups within a geographic space, often resulting in unequal access to …

Quantitative indices of segregation are powerful tools for summarising the spatial
relationships between population groups and thereby providing the basis for analysis and …

Using only ordinal axioms, we characterize several multigroup school segregation indices:
the Atkinson indices for the class of school districts with a given fixed number of ethnic …

Upward trends in ground-level warming are expected to intensify, affecting the health of
human populations. Specific to the United States, the Northeast (NE) region is one of the …