BACKGROUND Childhood asthma prevalence has been shown to be higher in urban communities overall without an understanding of differences by neighborhood. OBJECTIVE To characterize the geographic variability of childhood asthma prevalence among neighborhoods in Chicago. METHODS Asthma screening was conducted among children attending 105 Chicago schools as part of the Chicago Initiative to Rai...

Poverty is associated with increased risk of ESRD, but its contribution to observed racial differences in disease incidence is not well-defined. To explore the contribution of neighborhood poverty to racial disparity in ESRD incidence, we analyzed a combination of US Census and ESRD Network 6 data comprising 34,767 patients that initiated dialysis in Georgia, North Carolina, or South Carolina b...

Although associations between a person's neighborhood and their health have been studied internationally, most studies have been limited to a few cities or towns. Therefore, we used a nationally representative sample to explore whether perceived and objective neighborhood walkability was associated with the physical activity of residents. Data were analyzed from the Japanese General Social Surv...

The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic and working remotely may decrease advantages residing in populated areas. This study aims to test relationship between remote work changes neighborhood satisfaction discern difference according both status centrality areas where people live relationships geographic accessibility facilities satisfaction. By using an ordinal logistic regression, we analyzed ...

BACKGROUND To increase participation in physical activity, it is important to understand the factors associated with a child's choice to be physically active or sedentary. The neighborhood and home environments may be related to this choice. PURPOSE To determine whether the neighborhood environment or number of televisions in the home environment are independently associated with child physic...

BACKGROUND Measures to assess neighborhood environments are needed to better understand the salient features that may enhance outdoor physical activities, such as walking and bicycling for transport or leisure. The purpose of this study was to derive constructs to describe neighborhoods using both primary (neighborhood audit) and secondary (geographic information systems) data. METHODS We col...

Spatial data mining or Knowledge discovery in spatial database is the extraction of implicit knowledge, spatial relations and spatial patterns that are not explicitly stored in databases. Co-location patterns discovery is the process of finding the subsets of features that are frequently located together in the same geographic area. In this paper, we discuss the different approaches like Rule b...

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 sought to describe the epidemiology of emergency department (ED) visits for skin and soft tissue infections (SSTI) in an urban area with diverse neighborhood populations using syndromic surveillance system data for the time period from 2007-2011. Our aims were threefold: to demonstrate a proof of concept using syndromic surveillance for SSTI surveillance in the absence of laborator...