Previous research has demonstrated a relationship between black residential segregation and poor health outcomes. However, this association is less clear for the segregation of other racial/ethnic minority groups in the United States, such as Latinos and Asians. We argue that immigration may moderate this relationship, and that this could help explain these disparate results. We test this using multilevel statistical models of individual-level health data nested within Census tracts in a study of the Houston area using the 2009–2014 Kinder Houston Area Survey, the 2010 U.S. Census, and the 2006–2010 American Community Survey. We find that black and Latino residential segregation is associated with greater poor health reporting, though not for Asian segregation. Further, we find that immigration moderates this relationship for Latino segregation, such that where tract-level immigration is low, Latino segregation is positively related to poor health, but that this slope becomes flatter as immigration increases.

先前的研究表明，黑人居住区隔离与健康状况不佳之间存在关系。然而，对于美国其他种族/少数族裔群体的隔离，例如拉丁裔和亚裔，这种关联不太清楚。我们认为移民可能会缓和这种关系，这有助于解释这些不同的结果。在休斯顿地区的一项研究中，我们使用 2009-2014 年金德休斯顿地区调查、2010 年美国人口普查和 2006-2010 年美国社区调查中嵌套在人口普查区域内的个人健康数据的多级统计模型对此进行了测试。我们发现黑人和拉丁裔居民隔离与更多的不良健康报告相关，但与亚洲隔离无关。此外，我们发现移民缓和了拉丁裔种族隔离的这种关系，