An ecological study analyzes tuberculosis incidence in the municipality of Marianao, Havana City Province, Cuba. The study characterizes tuberculosis incidence, identifies spatial distribution patterns, and relates tuberculosis incidence rates to socioeconomic factors. The spatial units are the 29 neighborhoods in the municipality of Marianao. A pattern of neighborhoods with high rates located ...

BACKGROUND Use of cholera vaccines in response to epidemics (reactive vaccination) may provide an effective supplement to traditional control measures. In Haiti, reactive vaccination was considered but, until recently, rejected in part due to limited global supply of vaccine. Using Bissau City, Guinea-Bissau as a case study, we explore neighborhood-level transmission dynamics to understand if, ...

Study Objective: Interest in community as the focus of public health interventions is growing. However, choosing intervention and comparison neighborhoods when designing community based programs poses a challenge to program planners. Ideally, intervention neighborhoods should be chosen based upon risk profiles and demonstrated need for the program. Multiple sources of data that tap into neighbo...

Drawing on novel survey data of Milwaukee renters, this study documents the prevalence of involuntary displacement from housing and estimates its consequences for neighborhood selection. More than one in eight Milwaukee renters experienced an eviction or other kind of forced move in the previous two years. Multivariate analyses suggest that renters who experienced a forced move relocate to poor...

The geographic concentration and diffusion of crime deviancy are longstanding criminological inquiries, yet few studies have examined how certain illicit behaviors transcend neighborhood borders connect neighborhoods in patterns deviancy. A structural interdependence may account for the enduring nature spread crime, making it critical to understand connected guide prevention disruption efforts....

Neighborhood residential segregation by income has been increasing in the United States since 1970 at a higher rate than can be explained by rising income inequality alone. Nearly nine million Americans live in neighborhoods of extreme poverty, defined as those in which at least 40 percent of residents are poor. As income segregation has increased, minority children from low-income families who...

We try to answer the question: "can we 'modify' our neighborhoods to make them less vulnerable to flooding?" We minimize flooding vulnerability for a city in the central plain of Luzon, by modeling the city as a biological organism with 'traits', and try to 'breed' a 'champion' city (with a low flooding vulnerability) via a genetic algorithm. The result is a description of the traits the barang...

prawl, the dominant land-use pattern since World War 11, has bloated S the boundaries of metropolitan areas with its high per capita rate of land consumption. In the past year alone, a score of states have identified runaway suburban development as one of their most pressing environmental problems. “Imagine a city where neighborhoods are pedestrian-friendly, and residents can walk to shops and ...

Abstract Analyzing the important events and news stories that have captured the public interest in a city can be useful for determining the topics that are vital to the people that live there. Social media data, such as tweets, provides a useful and ever-churning feed of data to analyze for this purpose. For even a moderately-sized city, however, individual neighborhoods can have very different...