Community residential segregation and the local supply of federally qualified health centers.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine associations between community residential segregation by income and race/ethnicity, and the supply of federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) in urban areas.

Data sources and study setting

Area Resource File (2000-2007) linked with 2000 U.S. Census on U.S. metropolitan counties (N = 1,786).

Study design

We used logistic and negative binomial regression models with state-level fixed effects to examine how county-level characteristics in 2000 are associated with the presence of FQHCs in 2000, and with the increase in FQHCs from 2000 to 2007. Income and racial/ethnic residential segregation were measured by poverty and the non-white dissimilarity indices, respectively. Covariates included measures of federal criteria for medically underserved are

SUBMITTER: Ko M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3589965 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature