Cross-sectional analysis of two social determinants of health in California cities: racial/ethnic and geographic disparities.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To study the magnitude and direction of city-level racial and ethnic differences in poverty and education to characterise health equity and social determinants of health in California cities.

Design

We used data from the American Community Survey, United States Census Bureau, 2006-2010, and calculated differences in the prevalence of poverty and low educational attainment in adults by race/ethnicity and by census tracts within California cities. For race/ethnicity comparisons, when the referent group (p₂) to calculate the difference (p₁-p₂) was the non-Hispanic White population (considered a historically advantaged group), a positive difference was considered a health inequity. Differences with a non-White reference group were consi

SUBMITTER: Bustamante-Zamora D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5730014 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature