residential segregation and infant mortality: a multilevel study using iranian census data

Residential Segregation and Infant Mortality: A Multilevel Study Using Iranian Census Data

BACKGROUND There is a great amount of literature concerning the effect of racial segregation on health outcomes but few papers have discussed the effect of segregation on the basis of social, demographic and economic characteristics on health. We estimated the independent effect of segregation of determinants of socioeconomic status on infant mortality in Iranian population. METHODS For measu...

The effect of racial residential segregation on black infant mortality.

Economic differences and proximal risk factors do not fully explain the persistent high infant mortality rates of African Americans (blacks). The authors hypothesized that racial residential segregation plays an independent role in high black infant mortality rates. Segregation restricts social and economic advantage and imposes negative environmental exposures that black women and infants expe...

An Agent-based Microsimulation Framework For Investigating Residential Segregation Using Census Data

Social and urban structures are inherently complex and multidimensional. They do not arise from a single process, but from the multifaceted interplay of different social and economic processes. This is true for racial and residential/neighbourhood segregation which is the result of many factors, and its causes are not well understood. Over years, researchers have studied and measured the role a...

Objectively Measured Residential Environment and Self-Reported Health: A Multilevel Analysis of UK Census Data

Little is known about the association between health and the quality of the residential environment. What is known is often based on subjective assessments of the environment rather than on measurements by independent observers. The aim of this study, therefore, was to determine the association between self-reported general health and an objectively assessed measure of the residential environme...

Spatial Distribution Of Iranian Population In Canada: A Portrait Using The 2001 Census Data

Ethnic Residential Segregation: A Multilevel, Multigroup, Multiscale Approach Exemplified

We develop and apply a multilevel modeling approach that is simultaneously capable of assessing multigroup and multiscale segregation in the presence of substantial stochastic variation that accompanies ethnicity rates based on small absolute counts. Bayesian MCMC estimation of a log-normal Poisson model allows the calculation of the variance estimates of the degree of segregation in a single o...