TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1993//
TI  - Segregation, poverty, and empowerment: health consequences for African Americans
JO  - Milbank quarterly
A1  - Laveist, T. A.
SP  - 41
EP  - 64
VL  - 71
IS  - 1
N2  - Cities in the United States have undergone major social transitions during the past two decades. Three notable factors in these shifts have been the development of a black political elite sustained rates of black poverty, and intensified racial segregation. Indications of the effect of these social forces on black-white differentials in health status have begun to surface in the research literature. This article reports analyses of data from all U.S. cities with a population of 50,000, at least 10 percent of which is black. These results indicate substantial geographic variation in black-white infant mortality rates. Racial residential segregation, black political empowerment, and black and white poverty are the characteristics that distinguish cities that have a high degree of disparity in black-white infant mortality from cities that do not.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0887-378X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -