Individual-Level Exposure to Residential Redlining in 1940 and Mortality Risk.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Historic redlining, the practice by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) of systematically denying credit to borrowers in neighborhoods that were inhabited by primarily African American individuals, has been associated with poor community outcomes, but the association with individual risk of death is not clear.

Objective

To examine if exposure to residential redlining practices by HOLC in 1940 is associated with increased risk of death later in life.

Design, setting, and participants

The study linked individuals who resided within HOLC-graded neighborhoods (defined as Census Enumeration Districts) in 1940 with administrative death records data. The study estimated hazard ratios as well as age-specific life expectancy gaps (at age 55, 65, and 75 years) f

SUBMITTER: Linde S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11536219 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature