Episode 15
Race, Place, Health -- with Diane Alexander
March 17th, 2021
18 mins 56 secs
Season 2
About this Episode
Higher asthma rates are one of the more obvious ways that health inequalities between African American and other children are manifested beginning in early childhood. Diane Alexander talks about the research she conducted with Janet Currie on the impact of children's neighborhoods on the racial gap in respiratory diseases such as asthma.
Paper:
"Is it who you are or where you live? Residential segregation and racial gaps in childhood asthma" by Diane Alexander and Janet Currie
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167629616303897
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