This research adopts an analytical spatial perspective to explain ethno-national health inequality between Palestinians and Jews in Israel. The work identifies the forces that instigated and maintained the spatial segregation of Palestinians and elaborates the role of segregation in generating health gaps between Palestinians and Jews. The analysis suggests a novel conceptualization of two types of segregation: (a) exclusion from the center and confinement to the periphery and (b) segregation within the geographic periphery. Using administrative data on COVID-19 incidence, hospitalization, and death and various health indicators for localities, I devise a decomposition method that evaluates the relative contribution of each type of segregation to the total health gap. The findings indicate that the segregation of Palestinians from the center and their confinement to peripheral regions are crucial determinants of their poor health outcomes and that the segregation of the Palestinian community within the geographic periphery also contributes to poorer health.

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空间和民族健康不平等：以色列巴勒斯坦人和犹太人之间的健康和死亡率差距


本研究采用分析空间视角来解释以色列巴勒斯坦人和犹太人之间的民族-国家健康不平等。这项工作确定了煽动和维持巴勒斯坦人空间隔离的力量，并详细阐述了隔离在巴勒斯坦人和犹太人之间产生健康差距方面的作用。该分析提出了一种新颖的两种隔离概念化：（a） 排除中心并局限于边缘，以及 （b） 地理边缘内的隔离。使用有关 COVID-19 发病率、住院和死亡的行政数据以及地方的各种健康指标，我设计了一种分解方法，用于评估每种类型的隔离对总健康差距的相对贡献。研究结果表明，巴勒斯坦人与中心隔离以及他们被限制在外围地区是他们健康状况不佳的关键决定因素，而巴勒斯坦社区在地理边缘的隔离也会导致健康状况恶化。