Ethnic density, immigrant enclaves, and Latino health risks: A propensity score matching approach.

ABSTRACT: Whether minority concentration in a neighborhood exposes residents to, or protects them from, health risks has generated burgeoning scholarly interests; yet endogeneity as a result of neighborhood selection largely remains unclear in the literature. This study addresses such endogeneity and simultaneously investigates the roles of co-ethnic density and immigrant enclaves in influencing high blood pressure and high cholesterol level among Latinos, the largest minority group in the United States. Pooled cross-sectional data that included both native and foreign-born Latinos of Puerto Rican, Mexican, and other origins (N = 1563) from the 2006 and 2008 Southeastern Pennsylvania Household Health Survey were linked to census-tract profiles from the 2005-2009 American Community Survey. Results fr

SUBMITTER: Li K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5573190 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature