PURPOSE The purpose was to examine how fear of crime, crime victimization, and perceived level of community incivilities are related to physical activity participation and outdoor recreation among Latino adolescents. METHOD The study utilized a mixed methods approach that included 25 qualitative interviews and 390 school-based surveys collected from youth across three schools in Little Villag...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: This paper examines Latino migration to a " new destination " county in the southeastern U.S., Hall County, Georgia, where environmental equity is considered in terms of Latino communities' walking access to public and private parks in the county. Park access is considered an environmental equity or justice issue because some research shows less park acreage available to mino...

Few studies have examined the consequences of neighborhoods for job prospects people on parole. Specifically, networks between in where commute to work and their spatial distributions may provide insight into patterns joblessness because they represent economic structure neighborhoods. We argue that network provides competition parole face labor market, mismatch from jobs, as well structural su...

OBJECTIVE We explore differences in the prevalence of asthma and other respiratory diseases at the neighborhood level. In addition to traditional metrics of neighborhood structure (e.g., concentrated disadvantage, residential stability), we incorporate residents' evaluations of neighborhood context. We examine the extent to which indicators such as disorder (observable signs of physical and soc...

Introduction: Socioeconomic status (SES) indicators are among the main social determinants of health and illness. Less, however, is known about the role of SES in the epidemiology of polypharmacy in immigrant Latino Americans living in the United States. This research studied the association between three SES indicators, education, income, and employment, and polypharmacy in ol...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to extend the analysis of neighborhood effects on child behavioral outcomes in two ways: (1) by examining the geographic extent of the relationship between child behavior and neighborhood physical conditions independent of standard administrative boundaries such as census tracts or block groups and (2) by examining the relationship and geographic extent ...