The goal of this video is to provide a framework for understanding how neighborhoods may explain ethnic disparities in health. In this program, Gilbert C. Gee, Ph.D. provides a brief overview of the patterns of residence and settlement by ethnicity, including a discussion of the major concepts related to these patterns (segregation, ethnic enclaves) and the processes that may have led to their development (e.g. institutionalized racism).

He also examines the relationship between health and residence, neighborhood resources, community stressors, and environmental justice, and the extent to which community redevelopment provides a potential avenue to shape the health of all communities and a way to eliminate health disparities.

After viewing the program, you will:

• Understand how the psychosocial conditions of neighborhoods may contribute to health.
• Examine how patterns of residential location vary by race.
• Articulate the relationship between residential segregation, neighborhood risk and resiliency, and health.

This program was originally broadcast on June 23, 2004 as a part of the 10th Annual Summer Public Health Research Institute and Videoconference on Minority Health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Public Health, Minority Health Project.

UNC-Chapel Hill's annual Summer Public Health Research Institute and Videoconference is a unique forum that enables experts in the area of health disparities to reach an audience of several hundred researchers, educators, administrators, practitioners, and students throughout the U.S. Initiated in 1995, its aims include the identification and reduction of barriers to conducting health research in minority communities. Read more on the UNC website.