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Racial disparities in self-rated health at older ages
— what difference does the neighborhood make? | | Author(s) | Kathleen A Cagney, Christopher R Browning, Ming Wen |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 60B, no 4, July 2005 |
| Pages | pp S181-S190 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Ethnic groups ; Health [elderly] ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; Economic status [elderly] ; Neighbourhoods, communities etc ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Analyses incorporating individual and neighbourhood-level contextual indicators may further our understanding of the complex association between sociodemographic factors and health. The authors use the US 1990 Decennial Census, the 1994-1995 Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods - Community Survey, and selected years of the 1991-2000 Metropolitan Chicago Information Center - Metro Survey, to examine the impact of neighbourhood structure and social organisation on self-rated health for a sample of 630 Chicago residents aged 55+. They used multilevel modelling to examine both individual and neighbourhood covariates. Findings indicate that affluence - a neighbourhood structural resource - contributes positively to self-rated health, and attenuates the association between race and self-rated health. When the level of affluence in a community is low, residential stability is negatively related to health. Collective efficacy, a measure of neighbourhood social resources, is not associated with health for this older population. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-051121220 A |
| Classmark | TK: CC: F: F:W: RH: 3F: 7T |
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