Living in an Ethnically Homogenous Neighborhood Boosts Health of U.S. Minority Senior

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An African-American or Mexican-American senior living in a community where many neighbors share their background is less likely to have cancer or heart disease than their counterpart in a more mixed neighborhood.

Results of the new study by Kimberly Alvarez, a PhD student at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, and Becca Levy, PhD, associate professor of Epidemiology and Psychology at the Yale School of Public Health, appear in the American Journal of Public Health.

Living in an Ethnically Homogenous Neighborhood Boosts Health of U.S. Minority Seniors | American Renaissance

 

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Great news. Let 'em all hang together.