2012-05-10T18:07:48Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/about/people/f/finch_brian_karl.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP1104.html 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although relationships between social conditions and health have been documented for centuries, the past few decades have witnessed the emergence of socioeconomic gradients in health and mortality in most developed countries.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201000150.html 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Individuals with more education benefit from living in highly educated neighborhoods to a greater degree than individuals with lower levels of education.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20081003.html 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Estimates place effects on racial health disparities. Controlling for a single point-in-time measure of residential context results in a 15-76% reduction of black/white disparities in self-rated health not accounted for by individual-level controls.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20080601.html 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Certain environmental features may set the stage for neighborhood social interactions, serving as a foundation for underlying health and well-being.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20070906.html 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

This research examines the associations between census-tract-level community characteristics and injection-related and sex-related HIV risk behaviors among injection drug users in the San Francisco Bay Area.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20060201.html 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Social determinants have been identified as a fundamental cause of health and disease in most industrialized countries.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20040814.html 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Test the possibility that period of economic hardship characterizing Mexico over the decade 1986*1996 has negatively influenced infant health outcomes

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20031217.html 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although a materialist explanation for early-life SES gradients seems the most plausible, more research is needed to discover potential interventions.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20031006.html 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Test whether or not labor market frustration is associated with clinical alcohol abuse/dependence diagnoses among labor migrants living in California.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20030714.html 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

This study looks at the effect of social support mechanisms as potential moderators and mediators of the relationship between stressful acculturation experiences and self-ratings of physical health.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20060914.html 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Collective efficacy may help reduce adolescent childbearing in some, but not all, neighborhoods.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9375.html 2008-08-11T12:18:00Z 2008-08-11T12:18:00Z

This fact sheet summarizes a study examining the variation of the intake of fruits and vegetables for blacks, whites, and Mexican Americans, in addition to the relationship between neighborhood socioeconomic status and this intake.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/drafts/DRU3113.html 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

The author emphasizes a population health approach to the problems of prematurity and low birth weight, placing the onus of population health on society rather than on the individual.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20070714.html 2007-07-01T00:00:00Z 2007-07-01T00:00:00Z

The authors provide both a theoretical and empirical analysis of the relation between administrative and survey data.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20080614.html 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES) is positively associated with fruit and vegetable intake. Neighborhood SES partially explains black-white intake disparity and is differentially associated with white, black, and Mexican American intake.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20080901.html 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most national health surveys do not permit precise measurement of the health of racial/ethnic subgroups that comprise <1 per cent of the U.S. population. We identify three potentially promising sample design strategies for increasing the accuracy of national health estimates for a small target subgroup when used to supplement a small probability sample of that group and apply these strategies to American Indians/Alaska Natives (AI/AN) and Chinese using National Health Interview Survey data.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9267.html 2007-06-12T13:13:00Z 2007-06-12T13:13:00Z

This research brief explores the relationship of a neighborhood's characteristics to obesity in its residents.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20091004.html 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Single-year estimates of health disparities in small racial/ethnic groups are often insufficiently precise to guide policy, whereas estimates that are pooled over multiple years may not accurately describe current conditions.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20100115.html 2010-10-01T00:00:00Z 2010-10-01T00:00:00Z

Living in a lower SES neighborhood is associated with greater biological wear and tear.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9508.html 2011-08-03T10:30:00Z 2011-08-03T10:30:00Z

Summarizes key RAND studies on the causes of obesity, its economic and health consequences, and potential strategies for prevention, including work on health care costs, junk food, food deserts, school meals, and proximity of parks.