The Measurement of Neighborhood Socioeconomic Characteristics and Black and White Residential Segregation in Metropolitan Detroit: Implications for the Study of Social Disparities in Health

@article{Darden2010TheMO,
  title={The Measurement of Neighborhood Socioeconomic Characteristics and Black and White Residential Segregation in Metropolitan Detroit: Implications for the Study of Social Disparities in Health},
  author={Joe T. Darden and Mohammad Rahbar and Louise Jezierski and Min Li and Ellen Velie},
  journal={Annals of the Association of American Geographers},
  year={2010},
  volume={100},
  pages={137 - 158},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:129692931}
}
Research has suggested that the pattern of residence (integration or segregation) alone is insufficient to explain health disparities by race. Socioeconomic characteristics of neighborhoods where blacks and whites reside must also be considered to explain health disparities. This article has three aims: (1) to describe the component socioeconomic characteristics of census tracts (neighborhoods) of residence in metropolitan Detroit in 2000 for three indexes of socioeconomic position (SEP); (2… 
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