Triple jeopardy: the joint impact of racial segregation and neighborhood poverty on the mental health of black Americans

ConclusionsThe impact of segregation differs by neighborhood poverty and race. The psychological harm of structural racism, resulting in segregation and concentrated poverty, is not additive but multiplicative, reflecting a “triple jeopardy” for blacks, whereby their mental health is detrimentally impacted by the compounded effects of both neighborhood distress and racial segregation.
Source: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology - Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research