Author ORCID Identifier
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1761-3439
Date of Award
Spring 12-14-2022
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
Geosciences
First Advisor
Katherine Hankins
Second Advisor
Erin Ruel
Third Advisor
Chetan Tiwari
Abstract
Studies have shown that the social and physical environments are strong predictors of the health of the urban population. This study investigates if racial residential segregation has any impact on the poor health outcome of residents in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. This is a cross-sectional study with 8, 668, 744 observations at the individual level. The hierarchical logistic regression conducted to investigate the association between race and residential segregation with COVID-19 mortality showed that a one unit increase in segregation is associated with a 1 % increase in mortality. Furthermore, people from Black and Asian ethnic communities were more likely than Whites to die from COVID-19, but Hispanics were less likely to die. This study has limitations such as a modifiable aerial unit problem, as county-level segregation indices were used for the analysis.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/32375413
Recommended Citation
Neupane, Suresh Nath, "Racial Residential Segregation and COVID-19 Mortality." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2022.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/32375413
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