income of $38,000 and the other of $18,000), residents of the better off black neighborhood did better than those of the poorer one on only 4 out of 13 health measures. Because of the relatively high levels of disadvantage of African American neighborhoods regardless of SES, studies of neighborhood conditions and health have often used race-specific measures of neighborhood factors and have found that neighborhood variables were more strongly related to the health of whites than of blacks.68
