Study: McAllen area Hispanic children have fewer opportunities – Texas

Low-opportunity neighborhoods tend to have fewer grocery stores with fresh produce, poorer schools, fewer parks and playgrounds and higher crime rates than high-opportunity neighborhoods, said lead researcher Dolores Acevedo-Garcia. Those factors contribute to children’s overall health as they grow up, she said.

“Neighborhood conditions are really the foundation of healthy development,” said Acevedo-Garcia, associate professor at Harvard. “There’s research that says living in poor neighborhoods can affect a number of health outcomes.”

The researchers used data from the 2000 Census in the study, comparing the distribution of children of different ethnicities to certain neighborhood quality indicators such as poverty rates, rentership and unemployment.”*

*From: www.brownsvilleherald.com
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