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View article: Time-Use Sequences: A Mixed-Methods Study Exploring How, When, and Where Spatiotemporal Patterns of Everyday Routines Can Strengthen Public Health Interventions
Time-Use Sequences: A Mixed-Methods Study Exploring How, When, and Where Spatiotemporal Patterns of Everyday Routines Can Strengthen Public Health Interventions Open
Background: Behavior change interventions are critical for the secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease and for reducing the risk of a repeat event or mortality. However, the effectiveness of behavior change interventions is challeng…
View article: Future Blood Debt: Projecting Blood Supply and Demand of Korea Based on Subnational Population Projections (2021–2050)
Future Blood Debt: Projecting Blood Supply and Demand of Korea Based on Subnational Population Projections (2021–2050) Open
The findings emphasize the urgent need for targeted strategies to mitigate national and regional blood supply shortages in South Korea. Encouraging frequent donations from experienced donors and broadening eligibility criteria are critical…
View article: Place‐Based Developmental Research: Conceptual and Methodological Advances in Studying Youth Development in Context
Place‐Based Developmental Research: Conceptual and Methodological Advances in Studying Youth Development in Context Open
Scientists have, for some time, recognized that development unfolds in numerous settings, including families, schools, neighborhoods, and organized and unorganized activity settings. Since the turn of the 20th century, the body of mainstre…
View article: Integrating health geography and behavioral economic principles to strengthen context-specific behavior change interventions
Integrating health geography and behavioral economic principles to strengthen context-specific behavior change interventions Open
The long-term economic viability of modern health care systems is uncertain, in part due to costs of health care at the end of life and increasing health care utilization associated with an increasing population prevalence of multiple chro…
View article: Social Vulnerability and the Prevalence of Opioid Use Disorder Among Older Medicare Beneficiaries in U.S. Counties
Social Vulnerability and the Prevalence of Opioid Use Disorder Among Older Medicare Beneficiaries in U.S. Counties Open
Objectives Recent research has investigated the factors associated with the prevalence of opioid use disorder (OUD) among older adults (65+), which has rapidly increased in the past decade. However, little is known about the relationship b…
View article: Where to place emergency ambulance vehicles: use of a capacitated maximum covering location model with real call data
Where to place emergency ambulance vehicles: use of a capacitated maximum covering location model with real call data Open
This study integrates geographical information systems (GIS) with a mathematical optimization technique to enhance emergency medical services (EMS) coverage in a county in the northeast of Iran. EMS demand locations were determined through…
View article: The Role of Infant Health Problems in Constraining Interneighborhood Mobility: Implications for Citywide Employment Networks
The Role of Infant Health Problems in Constraining Interneighborhood Mobility: Implications for Citywide Employment Networks Open
Infant health problems are a persistent concern across the United States, disproportionally affecting socioeconomically vulnerable communities. We investigate how inequalities in infant health contribute to differences in interneighborhood…
View article: Resisting Amnesia: Renewing and Expanding the Study of Suburban Inequality
Resisting Amnesia: Renewing and Expanding the Study of Suburban Inequality Open
Suburban inequality is the focus of this double issue of RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences. This introduction addresses the limited related scholarship, describes how inequality unfolds differently in suburban…
View article: Resisting Amnesia: Renewing and Expanding the Study of Suburban Inequality
Resisting Amnesia: Renewing and Expanding the Study of Suburban Inequality Open
Suburban inequality is the focus of this double issue of RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences. This introduction addresses the limited related scholarship, describes how inequality unfolds differently in suburban…
View article: Future Blood Debt: Projecting Blood Supply and Demand of South Korea Based on Subnational Population Projections (2021–2050)
Future Blood Debt: Projecting Blood Supply and Demand of South Korea Based on Subnational Population Projections (2021–2050) Open
View article: Multiscale Dimensions of Spatial Process: COVID-19 Fully Vaccinated Rates in U.S. Counties
Multiscale Dimensions of Spatial Process: COVID-19 Fully Vaccinated Rates in U.S. Counties Open
View article: An ecological study of vulnerability to COVID-19 in Serbia - using Hotspot Analysis for Evidence-Based Population Health Policy
An ecological study of vulnerability to COVID-19 in Serbia - using Hotspot Analysis for Evidence-Based Population Health Policy Open
The risk of severe illness or death from COVID-19 is associated with specific demographic characteristics or composition of the population within geographic areas, and the spatial relationship between these areas.The aim of this paper is t…
View article: One-year spatiotemporal database of Emergency Medical Service (EMS) calls in Mashhad, Iran: data on 224,355 EMS calls
One-year spatiotemporal database of Emergency Medical Service (EMS) calls in Mashhad, Iran: data on 224,355 EMS calls Open
View article: Depopulation, super aging, and extreme heat events in South Korea
Depopulation, super aging, and extreme heat events in South Korea Open
South Korea's population is declining and its composition changing, associated with lowest-low fertility rates and rapid aging (super aging). When estimating changes in future exposure to extreme heat events (EHE), events that are predicte…
View article: Spatio-temporal epidemiology of emergency medical requests in a large urban area. A scan-statistic approach
Spatio-temporal epidemiology of emergency medical requests in a large urban area. A scan-statistic approach Open
Pre-hospital care is provided by emergency medical services (EMS) staff, the initial health care providers at the scene of disaster. This study aimed to describe the characteristics of EMS callers and space-time distribution of emergency r…
View article: Where to place emergency ambulance vehicles? Using a capacitated maximum covering location model with real call data
Where to place emergency ambulance vehicles? Using a capacitated maximum covering location model with real call data Open
Background: Timeliness of emergency medical services (EMS) is critical for patient survival. Identifying optimal locations for ambulance vehicles could increase the chance of timely service delivery. This study incorporates Geographical In…
View article: Looking Back, Looking Forward: Progress and Prospect for Spatial Demography
Looking Back, Looking Forward: Progress and Prospect for Spatial Demography Open
In 2011 a specialist meeting on the “Future Directions in Spatial Demography” was
\nheld in Santa Barbara, California (Matthews, Goodchild, & Janelle, 2012).1
\n This specialist meeting was the capstone to a multi-year National Institutes …
View article: Correlation Between the Bilingual Status and the Onset Age of AD and MCI Subjects: Evidence from the ADNI Dataset
Correlation Between the Bilingual Status and the Onset Age of AD and MCI Subjects: Evidence from the ADNI Dataset Open
Background: This paper investigates the statistical relationship between bilingualism and the Onset Age (OA) of AD and MCI across a clinical sample, consisting of 580 Alzheimer's Disease (AD) subjects and 1264 Mild Cognitive Impairment (MC…
View article: Who gets what, where, and how much? Composite index of spatial inequality for small areas in Tehran
Who gets what, where, and how much? Composite index of spatial inequality for small areas in Tehran Open
Urban spatial inequality is multidimensional and complex. The extant literature identifies three main theoretically-informed dimensions of spatial inequality—accessibility, environmental conditions, and socio-economic conditions. We combin…
View article: Spatial variability of total fertility rate and crude birth rate in a low-fertility country: Patterns and trends in regional and local scale heterogeneity across Italy, 2002–2018
Spatial variability of total fertility rate and crude birth rate in a low-fertility country: Patterns and trends in regional and local scale heterogeneity across Italy, 2002–2018 Open
View article: Gap analysis in decision support systems for real-estate in the era of the digital earth
Gap analysis in decision support systems for real-estate in the era of the digital earth Open
Searching for a property is inherently a multicriteria spatial decision. The decision is primarily based on three high-level criteria composed of household needs, building facilities, and location characteristics. Location choice is driven…
View article: A spatial analysis of the COVID-19 period prevalence in U.S. counties through June 28, 2020: where geography matters?
A spatial analysis of the COVID-19 period prevalence in U.S. counties through June 28, 2020: where geography matters? Open
View article: The geography of sentiment towards the Women’s March of 2017
The geography of sentiment towards the Women’s March of 2017 Open
The Women's March of 2017 generated unprecedented levels of participation in the largest, single day, protest in history to date. The marchers protested the election of President Donald Trump and rallied in support of several civil issues …
View article: Communal Innovations: Inspiring Neighborhoods of Hope and Advocacy
Communal Innovations: Inspiring Neighborhoods of Hope and Advocacy Open
Innovations promise a better future, which may generate feelings of hope and inspire advocacy. Some innovations are more communal in nature: attempting to address a social problem, through community engagement and wide-spread adoption. For…
View article: Confidentiality considerations for use of social-spatial data on the social determinants of health: Sexual and reproductive health case study
Confidentiality considerations for use of social-spatial data on the social determinants of health: Sexual and reproductive health case study Open
Understanding whether and how the places where people live, work, and play are associated with health behaviors and health is essential to understanding the social determinants of health. However, social-spatial data which link a person an…
View article: Racial/ethnic segregation and health disparities: Future directions and opportunities
Racial/ethnic segregation and health disparities: Future directions and opportunities Open
Health researchers have investigated the association between racial segregation and racial health disparities with multilevel approaches. This study systematically reviews these multilevel studies and identifies broad trends and potential …
View article: Exploring Heterogeneities with Geographically Weighted Quantile Regression: An Enhancement Based on the Bootstrap Approach
Exploring Heterogeneities with Geographically Weighted Quantile Regression: An Enhancement Based on the Bootstrap Approach Open
Geographically weighted quantile regression (GWQR) has been proposed as a spatial analytical technique to simultaneously explore two heterogeneities, one of spatial heterogeneity with respect to data relationships over space and one of res…
View article: Methods and applications in spatial demography: 2
Methods and applications in spatial demography: 2 Open
View article: Can Social Media Anti-abuse Policies Work? A Quasi-experimental Study of Online Sexist and Racist Slurs
Can Social Media Anti-abuse Policies Work? A Quasi-experimental Study of Online Sexist and Racist Slurs Open
The authors use the timing of a change in Twitter’s rules regarding abusive content to test the effectiveness of organizational policies aimed at stemming online harassment. Institutionalist theories of social control suggest that such int…
View article: Neighborhood Walkability and BMI Change: A National Study of Veterans in Large Urban Areas
Neighborhood Walkability and BMI Change: A National Study of Veterans in Large Urban Areas Open
Objective Improving neighborhood walkability has been proposed as a policy intervention to reduce obesity. The objective of this study was to evaluate longitudinal relationships between neighborhood walkability and body weight among adults…