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Acevedo-Garcia D, McArdle N, Hardy EF, et al. The child opportunity index: improving collaboration between community development and public health. Health Aff (Millwood). 2014;33(11):1948-57doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2014.0679.
Acevedo-Garcia, D., McArdle, N., Hardy, E. F., Crisan, U. I., Romano, B., Norris, D., Baek, M., & Reece, J. (2014). The child opportunity index: improving collaboration between community development and public health. Health affairs (Project Hope), 33(11), 1948-57. https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2014.0679
Acevedo-Garcia, Dolores, et al. "The child opportunity index: improving collaboration between community development and public health." Health affairs (Project Hope) vol. 33,11 (2014): 1948-57. doi: https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2014.0679
Acevedo-Garcia D, McArdle N, Hardy EF, Crisan UI, Romano B, Norris D, Baek M, Reece J. The child opportunity index: improving collaboration between community development and public health. Health Aff (Millwood). 2014 Nov;33(11):1948-57. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2014.0679. PMID: 25367989.
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Health Aff (Millwood). 2014 Nov;33(11):1948-57. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2014.0679.

The child opportunity index: improving collaboration between community development and public health.

Health affairs (Project Hope)

Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, Nancy McArdle, Erin F Hardy, Unda Ioana Crisan, Bethany Romano, David Norris, Mikyung Baek, Jason Reece

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  1. Dolores Acevedo-Garcia ([email protected]) is the Samuel F. and Rose B. Gingold Professor of Human Development and Social Policy and director of the Institute for Child, Youth, and Family Policy at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, in Waltham, Massachusetts.
  2. Nancy McArdle is a senior research consultant at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University.
  3. Erin F. Hardy is research director of diversitydatakids.org and a fellow at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University.
  4. Unda Ioana Crisan is a research associate at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University.
  5. Bethany Romano is senior department coordinator for the Institute for Child, Youth, and Family Policy at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University.
  6. David Norris is a senior researcher at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, Ohio State University, in Columbus.
  7. Mikyung Baek is a research and technical associate at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, Ohio State University.
  8. Jason Reece is director of research at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, Ohio State University.

PMID: 25367989 DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2014.0679

Abstract

Improving neighborhood environments for children through community development and other interventions may help improve children's health and reduce inequities in health. A first step is to develop a population-level surveillance system of children's neighborhood environments. This article presents the newly developed Child Opportunity Index for the 100 largest US metropolitan areas. The index examines the extent of racial/ethnic inequity in the distribution of children across levels of neighborhood opportunity. We found that high concentrations of black and Hispanic children in the lowest-opportunity neighborhoods are pervasive across US metropolitan areas. We also found that 40 percent of black and 32 percent of Hispanic children live in very low-opportunity neighborhoods within their metropolitan area, compared to 9 percent of white children. This inequity is greater in some metropolitan areas, especially those with high levels of residential segregation. The Child Opportunity Index provides perspectives on child opportunity at the neighborhood and regional levels and can inform place-based community development interventions and non-place-based interventions that address inequities across a region. The index can also be used to meet new community data reporting requirements under the Affordable Care Act.

Project HOPE—The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc.

Keywords: Children’s Health; Disparities; community development; neighborhoods; residential segregation

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