Neighbourhood Ethnic Density Effects on Behavioural and Cognitive Problems Among Young Racial/Ethnic Minority Children in the US and England: A Cross-National Comparison.
Neighbourhood Ethnic Density Effects on Behavioural and Cognitive Problems Among Young Racial/Ethnic Minority Children in the US and England: A Cross-National Comparison.
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10.1007/s11113-017-9445-1
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发表时间：
2017
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Bécares L
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作者：
Zhang N;Beauregard JL;Kramer MR;Bécares L
对成年种族/少数民族人口的研究表明，一个社区中种族/少数民族的集中度增加——即所谓的种族密度效应——在调整了区域剥夺因素后，与种族/少数民族居民的健康状况改善有关。然而，这些文献主要集中在成年人口，单个种族/民族群体和单个国家，没有研究集中在不同种族/民族群体的儿童或跨国家的比较。本研究旨在比较美国和英国社区种族密度对幼儿认知和行为结果的影响。我们使用了两项具有全国代表性的出生队列研究的数据，美国早期儿童纵向研究-出生队列研究和英国千年队列研究，以估计自己的种族密度与5岁时行为和认知发展之间的关系。研究结果显示，在两国内部和两国之间，种族密度对儿童结局的影响存在很大的异质性，这表明种族密度效应可能反映了更广泛的社会和经济背景。我们认为，研究人员在估计族裔密度效应和制定旨在加强和改善少数族裔儿童的健康和发展的政策举措时，应考虑到地区剥夺。
Studies on adult racial/ethnic minority populations show that the increased concentration of racial/ethnic minorities in a neighbourhood—a so-called ethnic density effect—is associated with improved health of racial/ethnic minority residents when adjusting for area deprivation. However, this literature has focused mainly on adult populations, individual racial/ethnic groups, and single countries, with no studies focusing on children of different racial/ethnic groups or comparing across nations. This study aims to compare neighbourhood ethnic density effects on young children’s cognitive and behavioural outcomes in the US and in England. We used data from two nationally representative birth cohort studies, the US Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort and the UK Millennium Cohort Study, to estimate the association between own ethnic density and behavioural and cognitive development at 5 years of age. Findings show substantial heterogeneity in ethnic density effects on child outcomes within and between the two countries, suggesting that ethnic density effects may reflect the wider social and economic context. We argue that researchers should take area deprivation into account when estimating ethnic density effects and when developing policy initiatives targeted at strengthening and improving the health and development of racial and ethnic minority children.
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影响因子：
3.1
作者：
Astell-Burt T;Maynard MJ;Lenguerrand E;Harding S
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Harding S
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作者：
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KENNY, DA
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Becares, Laia
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Lipman, EL
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