Racial residential segregation and child mortality in the southern United States at the turn of the 20th century.

ABSTRACT: A growing body of research considers racial residential segregation to be a form of systemic racism and a fundamental cause of persistent racial disparities in health and mortality. Historical research examining the impact of segregation on health and mortality, however, is limited to a few studies with poor data and inconsistent results. In this study, we examine the association between racial residential segregation and child mortality in the South at the turn of the 20th century. We rely on the new IPUMS 1900 and 1910 complete-count databases to estimate child mortality in the 5 years before each census and construct segregation measures at the census enumeration district (ED), the lowest level of geography consistently available in the census. We calculate the proportion of households

SUBMITTER: Karbeah J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11566120 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature