Tse-Chuan Yang
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 154195 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Tse-Chuan Yang |
| PRENOMES | Tse-Chuan |
| SOBRENOME | Yang |
| ASSINATURA | YANG T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University at Albany, State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4271-4584 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 73 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 363 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 73 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2010 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Age segregation and deaths of despair among older adults, 2010-2022
Policy Brief
Low-Density Zoning and Health Disparities in Metro Areas
This study examines associations between low-density zoning and individual health outcomes across 44 large U.S. metro areas. Zoning laws that restrict housing density to low levels can restrict affordable housing, contribute to urban sprawl, and increase segregation. Density zoning is one of the oldest and most common forms of residential zoning in the United States, and conceptual models posit that low-density zoning should be associated with wi…
Mapping the Vulnerability of Older-Adult Neighborhoods
We examined neighborhood-level demographic, economic, and social characteristics and food and health-services access to gauge the vulnerability of older-adult neighborhoods in New York State (NYS), which is understudied and is significant given the rapid aging of populations worldwide. We conducted descriptive ecological analyses using data from the American Community Survey, historical redlining maps, Social Capital Instruments, U.S. Department …
Features of Residential Counties and Individual Health Conditions for Opioid Use Disorder Among Older Medicare Beneficiaries
Objectives Little is known about how individual health conditions and residential characteristics jointly shape the risk of opioid use disorder (OUD) among older adults. This study examines hypotheses drawn from the collective resources and relative deprivation models to fill this gap. Methods Applying the cases/controls matching technique to the 2018–2021 Medicare Fee-for-Service Part A and Part B claims data, this study constructs a case-contro…
Spatial and Temporal Dimensions of Black–White Mental Health Paradox in the US
Race, disadvantage, and violence
Policing a Pandemic in New York City
This study assesses the contextual role that race/ethnicity play in predicting the enforcement of COVID-19 precautions during the early stages of the pandemic. We draw upon 311 police service calls pertaining to social distancing violations in New York City to investigate whether Black and Hispanic communities are less likely to call in social distancing violations as well as whether racial/ethnic composition influences law enforcement response. …
Social Vulnerability and the Prevalence of Opioid Use Disorder Among Older Medicare Beneficiaries in U.S. Counties
A perspective drawing upon contextual factors, especially social vulnerability, may be more effective in reducing OUD among older adults in U.S. counties than a one-size-fits-all approach
Multiscale dimensions of county-level disparities in opioid use disorder rates among older Medicare beneficiaries
Background: Opioid use disorder (OUD) among older adults (age ≥ 65) is a growing yet underexplored public health concern and previous research has mainly assumed that the spatial process underlying geographic patterns of population health outcomes is constant across space. This study is among the first to apply a local modeling perspective to examine the geographic disparity in county-level OUD rates among older Medicare beneficiaries and the spa…
Cross-sectional study of food insecurity and medical expenditures by race and ethnicity
The study expanded our understanding of food insecurity by investigating how it affected seven types of medical expenditures for each of four racial populations. An interdisciplinary effort is needed to enhance the food supply for minorities. Policy interventions to address intra-racial disparities among Hispanics and inter-racial disparities among African Americans are imperative to close the gap
Neighborhood characteristics and opioid use disorder among older Medicare beneficiaries
Living Alone During Old Age and the Risk of Dementia
Living alone during late life is an important risk factor for dementia, but the cognitive effects of solitary living probably do not take hold immediately for most older adults and potentially demonstrate a dose-response relationship
Residential Segregation and Cities’ Responses in the Early Stage of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Residential Segregation and Cities’ Responses in the Early Stage of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Preexisting Structural Factors and Health Care Access, an article from American Journal of Public Health, Vol 112 Issue 3
Examining the Reciprocity Between Perceived Discrimination and Health
County social isolation and opioid use disorder among older adults
Social isolation, residential stability, and opioid use disorder among older Medicare beneficiaries
Geographically Weighted Regression Modeling for Multiple Outcomes
Geographically weighted regression (GWR) has been a popular tool applied in various disciplines to explore spatial nonstationarity for georeferenced data. Such a technique, however, typically restricts the analysis to a single outcome variable and a set of explanatory variables. When analyzing multiple interrelated response variables, GWR fails to provide sufficient information about the data because it only allows separate modeling for each resp…
Face Masking Violations, Policing, and Covid-19 Death Rates
The use of face masks during a pandemic and compliance with state and local mandates has been a divisive issue in the United States. We document variation in face masking violation rates involving police enforcement in New York City and examine the association between police-enforced face masking violations and COVID-19-related death rates. We assemble a Zone Improvement Plan (ZIP) code–level data set from the New York City Open Data, Department …
Rural/Urban Differences in the Predictors of Opioid Prescribing Rates Among Medicare Part D Beneficiaries 65 Years of Age and Older
PURPOSE: While research has been done comparing rural/urban differences in opioid prescribing to the disabled Medicare Part D population, research on opioid prescribing among the aged Medicare Part D population is lacking. This study aims to fill this gap by exploring the predictors of opioid prescribing to aged Medicare Part D beneficiaries and investigating whether these predictors vary across rural and urban areas. METHODS: This is an analysis…
Structural Inequalities Established the Architecture for Covid-19 Pandemic Among Native Americans in Arizona
Determinants and health implications of individuals' activity space experiences
Previous research on the health impact of activity space assumed that individuals conduct daily activities outside residential neighborhoods. Little is known about whether and for whom this assumption holds, let alone whether neighborhood effects vary by individual activity space experiences. Using data in the Philadelphia metropolitan area, we identify four types of activity space experiences—individuals with extended activity space, confined ac…
Examining spatial inequality in Covid-19 positivity rates across New York City ZIP codes
The Wealth–Health Relationship by Race/Ethnicity
Using a longitudinal dataset, the Americans’ Changing Lives study, we tested whether and how the wealth–health relationship varies across race/ethnicity groups. By applying hybrid panel models to the data, we first found that individual wealth explained the variation in both mental and physical health (i.e., depressive symptoms and functional health limitations), not only between individuals but also within an individual, net of other socioeconom…
Maternal Smoking and Infant Low Birth Weight
The pathways from perceived discrimination to self-rated health
Social Capital and Human Mortality
The 'rural paradox' refers to standardized mortality rates in rural areas that are unexpectedly low in view of well-known economic and infrastructural disadvantages there. We explore this paradox by incorporating social capital, a promising explanatory factor that has seldom been incorporated into residential mortality research. We do so while being attentive to spatial dependence, a statistical problem often ignored in mortality research. Analyz…
Linking perceived discrimination during adolescence to health during mid-adulthood
Racial/ethnic segregation and health disparities
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 directions for future research on racial segregation and health disparities in the US. After searching databases including CINAHL and MEDLINE, we identified and systematically reviewed 66 articles published betw…
Covid-19 cases in US counties
The pre-existing social structure like residential segregation may facilitate the spread of COVID-19 and aggravate racial/ethnic health disparities in infections. Minorities are disproportionately affected by the novel coronavirus and focusing on pre-existing social structures and discrimination in housing market may narrow the uneven burden across racial/ethnic groups
Connecting Across the Divides of Race/Ethnicity
There exists an active discussion as to the effects of racial/ethnic composition on community connection. Research has suggested that racial segregation is beneficial to one’s community connection. To explore this dynamic, we investigate how an individual’s community connection is determined by the racial/ethnic segregation of his or her neighborhood, among other independent variables. We implement multilevel models using individual data from the…
Self-Rated Health and Residential Segregation
Individual Health Care System Distrust and Neighborhood Social Environment
Neighborhood effects on body mass
Untangling the associations among distrust, race, and neighborhood social environment
What has geography got to do with it? Using GWR to explore place-specific associations with prenatal care utilization
Residential segregation and racial disparities in self-rated health
Racial segregation and maternal smoking during pregnancy
Exploring Geographic Variation in US Mortality Rates Using a Spatial Durbin Approach
Previous studies focused on identifying the determinants of mortality in US counties have examined the relationships between mortality and explanatory covariates within a county only, and have ignored the well-documented spatial dependence of mortality. We challenge earlier literature by arguing that the mortality rate of a certain county may also be associated with the features of its neighboring counties beyond its own features. Drawing from bo…
Mapping the results of local statistics
The application of geographically weighted regression (GWR) - a local spatial statistical technique used to test for spatial nonstationarity - has grown rapidly in the social, health and demographic sciences. GWR is a useful exploratory analytical tool that generates a set of location-specific parameter estimates which can be mapped and analysed to provide information on spatial nonstationarity in relationships between predictors and the outcome …
The role of social and built environments in predicting self-rated stress
A multi-group path analysis of the relationship between perceived racial discrimination and self-rated stress
For non-Hispanic White, non-Hispanic Black, and Hispanic, perceived discrimination is negatively related to self-rated stress. This finding highlights the importance of reducing interpersonal discriminatory behavior even for non-Hispanic White. The health care system distrust pathway can be used to address the racial health disparity in stress as it holds true for all four race/ethnicity groups. On the other hand, the social capital pathway seems…
To What Extent do Sleep Quality and Duration Mediate the Effect of Perceived Discrimination on Health? Evidence from Philadelphia
Understanding maternal smoking during pregnancy
Effect of Health Care System Distrust on Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Objectives. We investigated whether health care system distrust is a barrier to breast and cervical cancer screening and whether different dimensions of distrust—values and competence—have different impacts on cancer screening. Methods. We utilized data on 5268 women aged 18 years and older living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and analyzed their use of screening services via logistic and multinomial logistic regression. Results. High levels of h…
Family policies and working women’s fertility intentions in South Korea
The effects of family policies on fertility intentions have been underexplored under the ultra-low fertility context in East Asia. Using the 2007–2008 Korean Longitudinal Survey of Women and Families (N = 1422), we examine how family assisting policies (i.e. maternal leave, childcare leave, and family allowance) and career-assisting policies (i.e. workplace daycare facilities, daycare allowance, and flexible working schedule) influence working wo…
Using quantile regression to examine the effects of inequality across the mortality distribution in the U.S. counties
Social isolation, residential stability, and opioid use disorder among older Medicare beneficiaries
Neighborhood Poverty and Physical Health at Midlife
Immigration Influx as a Trigger for Right-Wing Crime
This study examines the conditions under which increased immigration rates serve as a catalyst for right-wing politically motivated crime across 16 German regions. The main objective is to focus on regional immigration rates as a potential trigger for threat perceptions by not only testing their principal effects but also by considering their interactions with structural environments. The analyses are grounded in a quasi-experimental setting beca…
The role of social and built environments in predicting self-rated stress
Built Environment and Property Crime in Seattle, 1998-2000
The past decade has seen a rapid growth in the use of a spatial perspective in studies of crime. In part this growth has been driven by the availability of georeferenced data, and the tools to analyze and visualize them: geographic information systems, spatial analysis, and spatial statistics. In this paper we use exploratory spatial data analysis (ESDA) tools and Bayesian models to help better understand the spatial patterning and predictors of …
Individual Health Care System Distrust and Neighborhood Social Environment
Natural Resource Dependence
While natural resource dependency has been a feature of the Chilean economy for decades, its influence on Chilean society remains underexplored. This research analyzes data from a nationally representative survey of Chilean households to understand the implications of household and residential dependency on natural resources for children's school attendance and work. Descriptive results indicate that collectively children of household heads emplo…
What has geography got to do with it? Using GWR to explore place-specific associations with prenatal care utilization
Effect of Health Care System Distrust on Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Objectives. We investigated whether health care system distrust is a barrier to breast and cervical cancer screening and whether different dimensions of distrust—values and competence—have different impacts on cancer screening. Methods. We utilized data on 5268 women aged 18 years and older living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and analyzed their use of screening services via logistic and multinomial logistic regression. Results. High levels of h…
Social Capital and Human Mortality
The 'rural paradox' refers to standardized mortality rates in rural areas that are unexpectedly low in view of well-known economic and infrastructural disadvantages there. We explore this paradox by incorporating social capital, a promising explanatory factor that has seldom been incorporated into residential mortality research. We do so while being attentive to spatial dependence, a statistical problem often ignored in mortality research. Analyz…
Understanding the non-stationary associations between distrust of the health care system, health conditions, and self-rated health in the elderly
Using quantile regression to examine the effects of inequality across the mortality distribution in the U.S. counties
Untangling the associations among distrust, race, and neighborhood social environment
Spatially varying predictors of teenage birth rates among counties in the United States
BACKGROUND: Limited information is available about teenage pregnancy and childbearing in rural areas, even though approximately 20 percent of the nation's youth live in rural areas. Identifying whether there are differences in the teenage birth rate (TBR) across metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas is important, because these differences may reflect modifiable ecological-level influences such as education, employment, laws, healthcare infrastru…
Mapping the results of local statistics
The application of geographically weighted regression (GWR) - a local spatial statistical technique used to test for spatial nonstationarity - has grown rapidly in the social, health and demographic sciences. GWR is a useful exploratory analytical tool that generates a set of location-specific parameter estimates which can be mapped and analysed to provide information on spatial nonstationarity in relationships between predictors and the outcome …
Spatial Polygamy and Contextual Exposures (SPACEs)
Exposure science has developed rapidly and there is an increasing call for greater precision in the measurement of individual exposures across space and time. Social science interest in an individual’s environmental exposure, broadly conceived, has arguably been quite limited conceptually and methodologically. Indeed, in social science, we appear to lag behind our exposure science colleagues in our theories, data, and methods. In this article, we…
Prostate Cancer Screening and Health Care System Distrust in Philadelphia
Values distrust was independently associated with prostate cancer screening. Macro-level change in the health care system may influence men's health behaviors. Our findings suggested that efforts to make the health care system more transparent and enhanced communications between men and health providers may facilitate prostate cancer screening
Exploring Geographic Variation in US Mortality Rates Using a Spatial Durbin Approach
Previous studies focused on identifying the determinants of mortality in US counties have examined the relationships between mortality and explanatory covariates within a county only, and have ignored the well-documented spatial dependence of mortality. We challenge earlier literature by arguing that the mortality rate of a certain county may also be associated with the features of its neighboring counties beyond its own features. Drawing from bo…
Understanding maternal smoking during pregnancy
Clinical, Sociodemographic, and Service Provider Determinants of Guideline Concordant Colorectal Cancer Care for Appalachian Residents
BACKGROUND: Colorectal cancer represents a significant cause of morbidity and mortality, particularly in Appalachia where high mortality from colorectal cancer is more prevalent. Adherence to treatment guidelines leads to improved survival. This paper examines determinants of guideline concordance for colorectal cancer. METHODS: Colorectal cancer patients diagnosed in 2006-2008 from 4 cancer registries (Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and North Car…
Self-Rated Health and Residential Segregation
Racial segregation and maternal smoking during pregnancy
The pathways from perceived discrimination to self-rated health
Exploring the Inequality-Mortality Relationship in the US with Bayesian Spatial Modeling
To What Extent do Sleep Quality and Duration Mediate the Effect of Perceived Discrimination on Health? Evidence from Philadelphia
Patterns of Care for Metastatic Colorectal Cancer in Appalachia, and the Clinical, Sociodemographic, and Service Provider Determinants
BACKGROUND: Appalachia has high colorectal cancer (CRC) incidence and mortality, at least in part due to screening disparities. This paper examines patterns and determinants of metastatic colorectal cancer care. METHODS: CRC patients diagnosed in 2006-2008 from 4 cancer registries (Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina) were linked to Medicare claims (2005-2009.) The final sample after exclusions included 855 stage IV and 590 stages I-…
Household Structure and Suburbia Residence in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Suburbs have demographically diversified in terms of race, yet little research has been done on household structures in suburbs. Using the 2011 American Housing Survey and 2009–2013 American Community Survey, this study investigates the distributions of household structures in suburbia and central cities, and the relationship between household structures and residential attainment. The findings of this research include: (1) The distribution of ho…
A multi-group path analysis of the relationship between perceived racial discrimination and self-rated stress
For non-Hispanic White, non-Hispanic Black, and Hispanic, perceived discrimination is negatively related to self-rated stress. This finding highlights the importance of reducing interpersonal discriminatory behavior even for non-Hispanic White. The health care system distrust pathway can be used to address the racial health disparity in stress as it holds true for all four race/ethnicity groups. On the other hand, the social capital pathway seems…
Medicine (48 obras) · Sociology (48 obras) · Health disparities and outcomes (45 obras) · Psychology (35 obras) · Demography (34 obras) · Geography (33 obras) · Demography (30 obras) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (27 obras) · Gerontology (25 obras) · Political science (25 obras)