Neighborhood racial composition and trajectories of child self-rated health: an application of longitudinal propensity scores.

ABSTRACT: Children function within multiple socio-environmental contexts including family, school, and neighborhood. The role each of these contexts play in determining well-being is dynamic and changes throughout early-middle childhood. Recent literature on neighborhood context and health suggests that the life-course processes involved in building trajectories of health are not adequately captured in cross-sectional analysis, which has been the empirical focus of much of the research in this area. In this study we use a nationally representative longitudinal sample of approximately 21,400 United States school children derived from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study--Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS-K) survey to examine the impact of longitudinal measures of neighborhood racial composition on child se

SUBMITTER: Root ED 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4253655 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature