Place, Not Race: Disparities Dissipate In Southwest Baltimore When Blacks And Whites Live Under Similar Conditions
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...…indicates that whites and blacks living in the same integrated, lowincome neighborhood have either nonexistent or much smaller differences in prevalence of hypertension, diabetes, obesity, and other health behaviors compared to national estimates of racial differences (LaVeist et al. 2011)....
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..., neighborhood characteristics) (LaVeist et al. 2011) and the psychological stress of social disadvantage (Lantz et al....
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...However, we acknowledge that it is rarely the case that whites find themselves in contexts identical to those in which blacks find themselves, even when living in poverty (LaVeist et al. 2011)....
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...…settings, the prevalence of these health conditions among whites is much more similar to the average for blacks (i.e., whites in these settings have higher prevalence of hypertension, obesity, and diabetes than national averages, as expected based on fundamental cause theory) (LaVeist et al. 2011)....
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...Email: bmezuk@vcu.edu The source of this missing variance is thought to be attributable to the contextual physical and social environment (e.g., neighborhood characteristics) (LaVeist et al. 2011) and the psychological stress of social disadvantage (Lantz et al. 2005)....
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