Social determinants have been identified as a fundamental cause of health and disease in
most industrialized countries. However, much less is known about which characteristics of …

Background Socioeconomic and racial-ethnic disparities in health status across the United
States are large and persistent. Obesity rates are rising faster in black and Hispanic …

The reason for the retraction is that the authors discovered an error in the study, which, once
corrected, rendered the association between structural stigma and mortality risk no longer …

Objective To assess whether neighbourhood socioeconomic status (NSES) is independently
associated with disparities in biological 'wear and tear'measured by allostatic load in a …

In prior research, neighborhood effects have often been weak or inconsistent in predicting
specific causes of mortality and morbidity. To determine whether residential neighborhood …

Objectives. We elucidated how US late-life disability prevalence has changed over the past
3 decades. Methods. We examined activities of daily living (ADL) and instrumental activities …

Neighborhood social ecologies may have protective effects on depression in Latinos, after
adjusting for demographic risk factors, such as nativity and length of stay in the US. This …

A growing body of literature has documented a link between neighborhood context and
health outcomes. However, little is known about the relationship between neighborhood …

We investigate an alternative conceptualization of neighborhood context and its association
with health. Using an index that measures a continuum of concentrated advantage and …

Abstract This paper uses data from the US National Health Interview Surveys (N= 1,513,097)
to describe and explain temporal patterns in black-white health disparities with models that …