PEOPLE & PLACES

Invited commentary: places, people, and health.

A growing body of research in epidemiology and public health has examined how characteristics of the places where people live are related to a variety of health outcomes, including health-related behaviors (1–4), prevalence and incidence of disease (5–7), and mortality (3, 8–13). The paper by Balfour and Kaplan (14) in this issue of the Journal examines how neighborhood characteristics are rela...

Invited Commentary: Places, People, and Health

People, Places, Power: Medicaid Concentration and Local Political Participation.

The geographic concentration of disadvantage is a key mechanism of inequity. In the United States, the spatial patterning of disadvantage renders it more than the sum of its individual parts and disproportionately harms economically and racially marginalized Americans. This article focuses specifically on the political effects of Medicaid beneficiaries being concentrated in particular locales. ...

Mobility in Economic Status Among People and Places

Family background and the characteristics of an individual’s neighborhood are both important factors affecting individual economic opportunity. Both have been widely studied, yet recent empirical work using data from field experiments has brought new interest to questions at the intersection of family background and neighborhood characteristics. We review these literatures, with an eye towards ...

Dynamics of Human Social Networks: People, Time, Relationships, and Places

The availability of advanced social interaction sensing technologies provides fine grained data for social network analysis. Although traditional methods of gathering social network data may be subject to human ability to recall social details, people’s rating of their closeness to persons in their network is important. This study assesses the relationship amidst closeness ratings, sensed inter...