Future Directions in Residential Segregation and Health Research: A Multilevel Approach
Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, PhD, MPA-URP,
Kimberly A. Lochner, ScD,
Theresa L. Osypuk, MSc and
S. V. Subramanian, PhD
Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, Theresa L. Osypuk, and S. V. Subramanian are with the Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Mass. Kimberly A. Lochner is with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, NJ.
Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, PhD, MPA-URP, Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115 (e-mail: dacevedo{at}hsph.harvard.edu).
The authors examine the research evidence on the effect of residentialsegregation on health, identify research gaps, and propose newresearch directions.
Four recommendations are made on the basis of a review of thesociological and social epidemiology literature on residentialsegregation: (1) develop multilevel research designs to examinethe effects of individual, neighborhood, and metropolitan-areafactors on health outcomes; (2) continue examining the healtheffects of residential segregation among African Americans butalso initiate studies examining segregation among Hispanicsand Asians; (3) consider racial/ethnic segregation along withincome segregation and other metropolitan area factors suchas poverty concentration and metropolitan governance fragmentation;and (4) develop better conceptual frameworks of the pathwaysthat may link various segregation dimensions to specific healthoutcomes.
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