Friday, May 1 / 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM   •   Sapphire Ballroom I

Session 148:
Neighborhood and Contextual Influences on Health

Chair: Theresa L. Osypuk, University of Minnesota
Discussant: Kiarri Kershaw, Northwestern University

  1. Neighborhood Racial Composition and Trajectories of Child Self-Rated Health: An Application of Longitudinal Propensity ScoresElisabeth D. Root, University of Colorado, Boulder ; Jamie L. Humphrey, University of Colorado, Boulder

  2. Violent Crime Exposure and Pediatric Cardiovascular Health: A Spatial and Hierarchical Analysis for Low Income Children Living in BostonElizabeth McClure, Harvard University ; Marcia C. Castro, Harvard University ; William Adams, Boston University ; Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, Brandeis University ; Renee Boynton-Jarrett, Boston University

  3. Relative Social Status in Context: Is Perceived or Actual Status More Important for Young Adult Health?Karen Gerken, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  4. The Association of Early Life State, Work Context and Neighborhood Context with Hypertension, Diabetes and Ischemic Heart DiseaseDavid H. Rehkopf, Stanford University ; Mark Cullen, Stanford University

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