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. 2013 Oct;103(10):1754-63.
doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2012.300986. Epub 2013 Feb 14.

Future directions in research on institutional and interpersonal discrimination and children's health

Dolores Acevedo-Garcia  1 , Lindsay E Rosenfeld, Erin Hardy, Nancy McArdle, Theresa L Osypuk
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Future directions in research on institutional and interpersonal discrimination and children's health

Dolores Acevedo-Garcia et al. Am J Public Health. 2013 Oct.

Abstract

Research evidence indicates that 2 forms of racial discrimination-perceived interpersonal discrimination and racial/ethnic residential segregation (a form of institutional discrimination)-may influence children's health and disparities. Although research on these 2 forms of discrimination and health has primarily focused on adults, smaller bodies of work have documented that perceived interpersonal discrimination and segregation have a negative effect on infants' health, and that perceived interpersonal discrimination may negatively affect children's mental health. Three directions for research are (1) incorporating a life-course perspective into studies of discrimination and children's health, (2) linking residential segregation with geography-of-opportunity conceptual frameworks and measures, and (3) considering residential segregation along with segregation in other contexts that influence children's health (e.g., schools).

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FIGURE 1—
Influences of interpersonal and institutional discrimination on children’s health.
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FIGURE 2—
School and neighborhood segregation of (a) Black and White children and (b) Latino and White children: 100 largest US Metropolitan areas, 2010. Note. Circle size reflects relative size of the specified minority child population. Segregation was defined by using dissimilarity indices, which reflect the percentage of specified minority children or students who would have to move to another census tract or school for each census tract or school to have the same share of specified minority and White children or students as the metropolitan area as a whole. School segregation was measured for public primary schools, defined as schools with lowest grade of prekindergarten–3 and highest grade of prekindergarten–8. Neighborhood segregation includes children aged < 18 years, with neighborhoods defined by census tracts. Source. diversitydata.org calculations from 2010 Census Redistricting File for residential segregation and from National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data 2009–2010 for school segregation.
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