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Contextual Effects on African American Adolescents’ Health Risk Behavior

Along with colleagues at the University of Georgia, we are looking at contextual factors that influence African American adolescents’ health behavior. In particular, we will examine neighborhood factors, including substance availability, crime rates, percentage African American families living in the neighborhood, and availability of social services as moderators of the relations between protective factors (e.g., good parenting, education) and problem behaviors.

This project is funded by the Centers for Disease Control