Back to Search
Start Over
Race, Ethnicity, and Exposure to Alcohol Outlets.
- Source :
-
Journal of Studies on Alcohol & Drugs . Jan2016, Vol. 77 Issue 1, p68-76. 9p. - Publication Year :
- 2016
-
Abstract
- <bold>Objective: </bold>Prior studies suggest that Black and Hispanic minority populations are exposed to greater concentrations of alcohol outlets, potentially contributing to health disparities between these populations and the White majority. We tested the alternative hypothesis that urban economic systems cause outlets to concentrate in low-income areas and, controlling for these effects, lower demand among minority populations leads to fewer outlets.<bold>Method: </bold>Market potential for alcohol sales, a surrogate for demand, was estimated from survey and census data across census block groups for 50 California cities. Hierarchical Bayesian conditional autoregressive Poisson models then estimated relationships between observed geographic distributions of outlets and the market potential for alcohol, income, population size, and racial and ethnic composition.<bold>Results: </bold>Market potentials were significantly smaller among lower income Black, Hispanic, and Asian populations. Block groups with greater market potential and lower income had greater concentrations of outlets. When we controlled for these effects, the racial and ethnic group composition of block groups was mostly unrelated to outlet concentrations.<bold>Conclusions: </bold>Health disparities related to exposure to alcohol outlets are primarily driven by distributions of income and population density across neighborhoods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *ALCOHOL drinking
*MINORITIES
*RACIAL differences
*ETHNIC differences
*BLACK people
*METROPOLITAN areas
*ECONOMIC history
*ALCOHOLIC beverages
*POVERTY
*ETHNIC groups
*HISPANIC Americans
*INCOME
*POPULATION
*RESEARCH funding
*WHITE people
*RESIDENTIAL patterns
*HEALTH equity
*ECONOMICS
ALCOHOL & Hispanic Americans
BUSINESS & economics
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19371888
- Volume :
- 77
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Studies on Alcohol & Drugs
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 112371212
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.15288/jsad.2016.77.68