Open AccessResidential Segregation and Injection Drug Use Prevalence Among Black Adults in US Metropolitan Areas
Author(s) -
Hannah L.F. Cooper,
Samuel R. Friedman,
Barbara Tempalski,
Risa Friedman
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2005.074542
Subject(s) - interquartile range , medicine , metropolitan area , demography , drug , confounding , environmental health , isolation (microbiology) , public health , epidemiology , gerontology , pharmacology , biology , nursing , pathology , sociology , microbiology and biotechnology
We analyzed the relations of two 1990 dimensions of racial residential segregation (isolation and concentration) with 1998 injection drug use prevalence among Black adult residents of 93 large US metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs).