Neighborhood racial composition, income, and distance to grocery retailers in Seattle

Access to Healthy and Less Healthy Food Options In a Low-Income, Racially Diverse Seattle Neighborhood

Access to Healthy and Less Healthy Food Options In a Low-Income, Racially Diverse Seattle Neighborhood Sara Denise Coulter Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Associate Professor, Donna B. Johnson Department of Health Services There is a need for more place-based research on the food environments of low-income and/or racial minority populations for the purpose of developing policy initiatives a...

Neighborhood Income Composition by Race and Income , 1990 – 2009 Sean

Residential segregation, by definition, leads to racial and socioeconomic disparities in neighborhood conditions. These disparities may in turn produce inequality in social and economic opportunities and outcomes. Because racial and socioeconomic segregation are not independent of each other, however, any analysis of their causes, patterns, and effects must rest on an understanding of the joint...

Neighborhood Income Composition by Race and Income , 1990 - 2009

Neighborhood racial composition, racial discrimination, and depressive symptoms in African Americans.

While evidence indicates that experienced racial discrimination is associated with increased depressive symptoms for African Americans, there is little research investigating predictors of experienced racial discrimination. This paper examines neighborhood racial composition and sociodemographic factors as antecedents to experienced racial discrimination and resultant levels of depressive sympt...

Neighborhood racial composition, neighborhood poverty, and the spatial accessibility of supermarkets in metropolitan Detroit.

OBJECTIVES We evaluated the spatial accessibility of large "chain" supermarkets in relation to neighborhood racial composition and poverty. METHODS We used a geographic information system to measure Manhattan block distance to the nearest supermarket for 869 neighborhoods (census tracts) in metropolitan Detroit. We constructed moving average spatial regression models to adjust for spatial aut...