Thursday, April 27, 2023 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs
Dear John,
In case you missed it, SIIA announced
the NEAL Award recipients this week, and the Racism & Health issue from Health Affairs was recognized for "Best DEI Coverage." For additional and up-to-date research on the topic, visit our website.
Residential Segregation &
Health
Today, Health Affairs
published two new Health Policy Briefs focused on how residential segregation affects health and relevant policy interventions to address.
In one of the policy briefs released today, Justin Steil and Mariana Arcaya describe how residential segregation is a structural determinant of health, outlining how it mediates exposure to factors that affect health, including education, income, employment, and housing.
"The evidence is particularly consistent in showing adverse maternal health and birth outcomes and obesity-related outcomes associated with segregation," the authors report. "Segregation is also associated with health disparities between Black and White populations."
The authors note that policies and programs that affect neighborhood segregation are primarily people-based or place-based, and they suggest that a combination of these two approaches is typically more effective than those that use only one approach.
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