Neighborhood Ethnic Composition and Self-rated Health Among Chinese and Vietnamese American Immigrants.

Autor: Guan A; Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco, 401 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA.; Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA., Kim-Mozeleski JE; Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA., Vyas P; Center for Tobacco Research and Education, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA., Stewart SL; Department of Public Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA., Gildengorin G; Division of General Internal Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA., Burke NJ; Department of Public Health, University of California Merced, Merced, CA, USA.; Asian American Research Center on Health, San Francisco, CA, USA., Ma K; Department of Psychology, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA., Pham AT; Department of Psychology, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA., Tan J; Division of Prevention Science, Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA., Lu Q; Department of Health Disparities Research, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA., McPhee SJ; Division of General Internal Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA., Tsoh JY; Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco, 401 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA. Janice.Tsoh@ucsf.edu.; Asian American Research Center on Health, San Francisco, CA, USA. Janice.Tsoh@ucsf.edu.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of immigrant and minority health [J Immigr Minor Health] 2021 Jun; Vol. 23 (3), pp. 574-582.
DOI: 10.1007/s10903-020-01041-2
Abstrakt: Immigrants tend to live in areas with higher co-ethnic density, and the effect of neighborhood ethnic composition could be particularly salient for health. This study explored associations between neighborhood ethnic composition and self-rated health among Asian immigrants. We analyzed data collected at baseline from 670 Chinese and Vietnamese immigrants enrolled in a lifestyle intervention trial. Residential addresses were geocoded and combined with neighborhood socio-demographic profiles based on census data. We used generalized estimating equations to examine neighborhood ethnic composition and self-rated health. Independent of individual-level factors, living in neighborhoods more densely populated by whites was associated with poor/fair self-rated health. Neighborhood household income and density of participants' own ethnic group were not associated with poor/fair self-rated health. More research is warranted to disentangle reasons why Chinese and Vietnamese immigrants living in white-concentrated neighborhoods reported poorer self-rated health, including investigating effects of discrimination, relative deprivation, and availability of social resources.
Databáze: MEDLINE