[EQ] Toward A Policy-Relevant Analysis Of Geographic And Racial/Ethnic Disparities In Child Health

Toward A Policy-Relevant Analysis Of Geographic And Racial/Ethnic Disparities In Child Health

Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, Theresa L. Osypuk, Nancy McArdle and David R. Williams

Health Affairs, Volume 27, No. 2 March-April 2008

 Available online at: http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/27/2/321

“……Extreme racial/ethnic disparities exist in children’s access to "opportunity neighborhoods." These disparities arise from high levels of residential segregation and have implications for health and well-being in childhood and throughout the life course.

The fact that health disparities are rooted in social factors, such as residential segregation and an unequal geography of opportunity, should not have a paralyzing effect on the public health community. However, we need to move beyond conventional public health and health care approaches to consider policies to improve access to opportunity-rich neighborhoods through enhanced housing mobility, and to increase the opportunities for healthy living in disadvantaged neighborhoods….”.

 

Dolores Acevedo-Garcia is an associate professor in the Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, in Boston, Massachusetts.
Theresa Osypuk is an assistant professor of health science at the Bouvé College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University, in Boston.
Nancy McArdle is a research analyst in the Department of Society, Human Development, and Health.
David Williams is the Florence S. and Laura S. Norman Professor of Public Health and professor of African and African American studies and of sociology at Harvard University.

Research Enabling Grant from the Office of Faculty Development and Diversity at Harvard University, as well as funding for DiversityData.org from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies Health Policy Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Health and Society Scholars Program for financial support.

 

 

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