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Hurricane Katrina (Katrina) was the largest internal displacement in the United States (U.S.), which presented itself as a natural experiment. We examined the association between neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES) and mental health among women up to 10 years following Katrina (N = 394). We also investigated whether this association was modified by move status, comparing women who were permanently displaced to those who had returned to their pre-Katrina residence. We used hierarchical linear models to measure this association, using data from the American Community Survey and the Gulf Coast Child and Family Health study. Neighborhood SES was created as an index which represented social and economic characteristics of participants\u2019 neighborhoods. Mental health was measured using mental component summary (MCS) scores. Increased neighborhood SES was positively associated with mental health after controlling for age, race\/ethnicity, economic positioning, time, and move status (19.6, 95% Confidence Interval: 5.8, 33.7). Neighborhood SES and mental health was also modified by move status. These findings underscore the need to better understand the impacts of socioeconomic conditions and health outcomes among women affected by natural disasters.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijerph20020925","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,1,4]],"date-time":"2023-01-04T06:33:44Z","timestamp":1672814024000},"page":"925","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Women\u2019s Mental Health: A Longitudinal Study of Hurricane Katrina Survivors, 2005\u20132015"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"20","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6572-9877","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Angela-Maithy","family":"Nguyen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Berkeley School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yeerae","family":"Kim","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Global Public Health, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7846-3588","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"David M.","family":"Abramson","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Global Public Health, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,1,4]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"16","DOI":"10.1016\/j.socscimed.2016.08.047","article-title":"Research on neighborhood effects on health in the United States: A systematic review of study characteristics","volume":"168","author":"Arcaya","year":"2016","journal-title":"Soc. 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