A recent study published in the Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities highlights a significant connection between increasing school segregation and persistent racial health disparities in the United States. Researchers found that, while residential segregation has remained largely unchanged from 1991 to 2020, school segregation has increased, correlating with higher levels of racial health disparities.
“While a number of papers have examined health effects of residential segregation and some have examined health effects of residential segregation, very few have simultaneously examined the effects of both types of segregation,” said study author Michael Siegel, a professor of public health and community medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine.
