Hospitals alike, hospitals different: spatial clustering of inequality around Boston’s hospitals
Eralp Kaan Karduz · 2026
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Boston's hospitals sit inside the city's map of racial and economic inequality, Eralp Kaan Karduz shows in a 2026 brief research report. The study asks how segregation patterns cluster around the hospitals that serve each neighborhood.
Karduz merged survey, health, and hospital data (CDC PLACES, state hospital records, and the 2018–2022 American Community Survey) for Boston's general acute-care hospitals and mapped census tracts. Race, poverty, and poor health each clustered significantly, and bivariate maps showed the three clustering together around hospital sites. Safety-net hospitals turned out to serve the areas with the deepest health and economic vulnerability, while wealthier hospitals sit in healthier zones. Patterns near the recently closed Carney Hospital underlined the burden of shifted care. The author calls for collaboration across hospitals and policies that face this spatial legacy directly.
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| CREATOR | Eralp Kaan Karduz |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 34921 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |