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Gentrification has gained significant attention focused on its effects on health behaviors / risks and health outcomes. Using census tract level demographic data and health data, this study examines the relationship between gentrification and health and how race interacts with gentrification status in this relationship. I find that gentrification status is associated with more positive health outcomes in the absence of minority residents. This relationship is stronger in more intensely gentrifying tracts. However, I find that as the percent of minority residents living in a gentrifying tract increases this relationship flips. Increasing the percent of minority residents living in a gentrifying tract is associated with more negative health outcomes. This relationship is also stronger in more intensely gentrifying tracts. These findings shed new light on the relationship between gentrification and health and how the distribution of health outcomes perpetuates issues of health inequity.

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