Michael H Esposito
Biographic Data
| ID | 182262 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael H Esposito |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael H |
| FAMILY NAME | Esposito |
| SIGNATURE | ESPOSITO M H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3967-4788 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 198 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Drive with me: Utilizing car-based mobile interviews to investigate place and health
While mobile “go-along” methods are increasingly used to understand and conceptualize the interconnections between health and place, most mobile interviews are conducted on foot. This paper investigates how mobile interviews within cars can advance knowledge of nuanced neighborhood navigation and local place-based features that influence health and well-being. The Neighborhoods and Health at All Ages Study interviewed sixty participants between A…
Cognability across adulthood: A qualitative investigation of neighborhoods and cognitive health behaviors
How do counties’ industrial structures shape geographic disparities in cardiovascular disease mortality
Trust, trust repair, and public health: A scoping review
Objective This study investigates the scope of evidence on trust, trust repair, and public health. Methods We identified quantitative studies that evaluated the relationship between trust or trust repair and public health from January 1990 to May 2023. Results were stratified evaluating trust as an exposure or outcome and reporting on trust repair. Data are reported on spatiotemporal trends in publications, level of trust (institutional trust, ge…
Uneven access to essential services and amenities: Geographic disparities in ‘third place’ availability across the United States from 2010 to 2021
Sociohistorical contexts of racial violence: Sundown Towns and the Durability of Racialized Public Space
L’inégalité à l’œuvre: Race, genre et avantages de la beauté physique perçue aux États-Unis
L’apparence physique, que l’on peut associer, par exemple, au niveau d’éducation, à la situation matrimoniale ou aux revenus, est un axe de la stratification sociale. Pourtant, en comparaison à la stratification ethnoraciale et de genre, la question de la beauté physique est relativement peu étudiée. On sait notamment peu de choses sur la puissance du lien de causalité qui peut exister entre la race et le bénéfice tiré de la beauté physique, ni s…
Racial capitalism and firearm violence: Developing a theoretical framework for firearm violence research examining structural racism
Despite the early promise of centering structural racism in explanatory models of firearm violence, there are noticeable gaps in what's been produced thus far; in particular, a deeper and more serious engagement with long-standing theories of racism is needed to further enrich our understanding of how structural inequalities produce unequal burdens of firearm-related harms. Thus, building on theories and concepts from a range of academic fields a…
Historical Redlining and Contemporary Racial Disparities in Neighborhood Life Expectancy
While evidence suggests a durable relationship between redlining and population health, we currently lack an empirical account of how this historical act of racialized violence produced contemporary inequities. In this paper, we use a mediation framework to evaluate how redlining grades influenced later life expectancy and the degree to which contemporary racial disparities in life expectancy between Black working-class neighborhoods and White pr…
Segregated Patterns of Hospital Care Delivery and Health Outcomes
This cross-sectional study found that higher segregation of hospital care was associated with poorer health outcomes for both Black and White Medicare beneficiaries, with significantly greater negative health outcomes for Black populations, supporting racial segregation as a root cause of health disparities. Policymakers and clinical leaders could address this important public health issue through payment reform efforts and expansion of health in…
Neighborhood ‘Disamenities’: Local barriers and cognitive function among Black and white aging adults
Neighborhood disamenities may be linked to cognitive function among aging residents. Identifying neighborhood factors that pose barriers to accessing community resources may inform upstream policy applications to reduce risk for cognitive decline
My neighbourhood is fuzzy, not hard and fast’: Individual and contextual associations with perceived residential neighbourhood boundaries among ageing Americans
Neighbourhoods are fluid social and spatial constructs that vary by person and place. How do residential neighbourhoods shift as people age? This mixed-methods study investigates how perceived neighbourhood boundaries and size vary by individual and contextual characteristics. Semi-structured interviews with 125 adults aged 55–92 years living in the Minneapolis (Minnesota) metropolitan area suggested that neighbourhood boundaries are ‘fuzzy’. Qua…
Walkable Neighborhoods and Cognition: Implications for the Design of Health Promoting Communities
Objective: This study seeks to examine neighborhood characteristics, physical activity, and health status and their roles in promoting healthy cognitive aging. Methods: Using data from the REasons for Geographic And Racial Difference in Stroke (REGARDS) study ( N =10,289, mean age=73.4 years), we used multilevel linear regression to examine the relationships between walkable neighborhoods (both objectively measured and subjective perceptions), wa…
Cognability: An Ecological Theory of neighborhoods and cognitive aging
Structural Racism and Quantitative Causal Inference: A Life Course Mediation Framework for Decomposing Racial Health Disparities
Quantitative studies of racial health disparities often use static measures of self-reported race and conventional regression estimators, which critics argue is inconsistent with social-constructivist theories of race, racialization, and racism. We demonstrate an alternative counterfactual approach to explain how multiple racialized systems dynamically shape health over time, examining racial inequities in cardiometabolic risk in the National Lon…
Neighborhood cognitive amenities? A mixed-methods study of intellectually-stimulating places and cognitive function among older Americans
Neighborhoods structure health and wellbeing in later life. Local spaces can encourage physically active and socially engaged aging in place, and may also nurture opportunities for cognitively-stimulating creative and complex activities such as reading; playing and listening to music; learning; and engagement in galleries, performing arts, and museums. These activities are associated with better cognitive health outcomes. In this exploratory sequ…
Can Neighborhood Social Infrastructure Modify Cognitive Function? A Mixed-Methods Study of Urban-Dwelling Aging Americans
Objectives: Socialization predicts cognitive aging outcomes. Neighborhoods may facilitate socially engaged aging and thus shape cognition. We investigated places where older adults socialized and whether availability of these sites was associated with cognitive outcomes. Methods: Qualitative analysis of interviews and ethnography with 125 older adults (mean age 71 years) in Minneapolis identified where participants socialized outside of home. Thi…
Racial Segregation and Cognitive Function Among Older Adults in the United States: Findings From the Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke Study
Metropolitan segregation was associated with lower cognitive function among older adults, especially for those with lower education living in racially isolated MSAs. This suggests complex associations between individual socioeconomic status, place, and cognitive health
White Health Benefits of Histories of Enslavement: The Case of Opioid Deaths
Popular media and researchers have given increasing attention to the perceived growing alienation and despair of white Americans. The narrative of white decline has been particularly robust in light of the recent uptick in premature deaths of whites from opioid use, but this national conversation has lacked consideration of potential associations between opioid mortality among whites and durable legacies of white advantage that were established t…
Linking History to Contemporary State-Sanctioned Slow Violence through Cultural and Structural Racism
Environmental scientists started documenting the racial inequities of environmental exposures (e.g., proximity to waste facilities or to industrial pollution) in the 1970s and 1980s. Since then, research has documented inequities in exposures to nearly every studied environmental hazard, showing that American society delivers racial violence toward nonwhite families. Through cultural racism, a resilient social hierarchy is set where the lives of …
Beholding Inequality: Race, Gender, and Returns to Physical Attractiveness in the United States
Physical attractiveness is an important axis of social stratification associated with educational attainment, marital patterns, earnings, and more. Still, relative to ethnoracial and gender stratification, physical attractiveness is relatively understudied. In particular, little is known about whether returns to physical attractiveness vary by race or significantly vary by race and gender combined. In this study, we use nationally representative …
Fast-food for thought: Retail food environments as resources for cognitive health and wellbeing among aging Americans
Risk of being killed by police use of force in the United States by age, race–ethnicity, and sex
We use data on police-involved deaths to estimate how the risk of being killed by police use of force in the United States varies across social groups. We estimate the lifetime and age-specific risks of being killed by police by race and sex. We also provide estimates of the proportion of all deaths accounted for by police use of force. We find that African American men and women, American Indian/Alaska Native men and women, and Latino men face h…
Closure of ‘third places’? Exploring potential consequences for collective health and wellbeing
Inequality in Process: Income and Heterogeneous Educational Health Gradients Among Blacks and Whites in the USA
Risk of Police-Involved Death by Race/Ethnicity and Place, United States, 2012–2018
Objectives. To estimate the risk of mortality from police homicide by race/ethnicity and place in the United States. Methods. We used novel data on police-involved fatalities and Bayesian models to estimate mortality risk for Black, Latino, and White men for all US counties by Census division and metropolitan area type. Results. Police kill, on average, 2.8 men per day. Police were responsible for about 8% of all homicides with adult male victims…
Closure of ‘third places’? Exploring potential consequences for collective health and wellbeing
Structural Racism and Quantitative Causal Inference: A Life Course Mediation Framework for Decomposing Racial Health Disparities
Quantitative studies of racial health disparities often use static measures of self-reported race and conventional regression estimators, which critics argue is inconsistent with social-constructivist theories of race, racialization, and racism. We demonstrate an alternative counterfactual approach to explain how multiple racialized systems dynamically shape health over time, examining racial inequities in cardiometabolic risk in the National Lon…
Beholding Inequality: Race, Gender, and Returns to Physical Attractiveness in the United States
Physical attractiveness is an important axis of social stratification associated with educational attainment, marital patterns, earnings, and more. Still, relative to ethnoracial and gender stratification, physical attractiveness is relatively understudied. In particular, little is known about whether returns to physical attractiveness vary by race or significantly vary by race and gender combined. In this study, we use nationally representative …
Cognability: An Ecological Theory of neighborhoods and cognitive aging
White Health Benefits of Histories of Enslavement: The Case of Opioid Deaths
Popular media and researchers have given increasing attention to the perceived growing alienation and despair of white Americans. The narrative of white decline has been particularly robust in light of the recent uptick in premature deaths of whites from opioid use, but this national conversation has lacked consideration of potential associations between opioid mortality among whites and durable legacies of white advantage that were established t…
Can Neighborhood Social Infrastructure Modify Cognitive Function? A Mixed-Methods Study of Urban-Dwelling Aging Americans
Objectives: Socialization predicts cognitive aging outcomes. Neighborhoods may facilitate socially engaged aging and thus shape cognition. We investigated places where older adults socialized and whether availability of these sites was associated with cognitive outcomes. Methods: Qualitative analysis of interviews and ethnography with 125 older adults (mean age 71 years) in Minneapolis identified where participants socialized outside of home. Thi…
Linking History to Contemporary State-Sanctioned Slow Violence through Cultural and Structural Racism
Environmental scientists started documenting the racial inequities of environmental exposures (e.g., proximity to waste facilities or to industrial pollution) in the 1970s and 1980s. Since then, research has documented inequities in exposures to nearly every studied environmental hazard, showing that American society delivers racial violence toward nonwhite families. Through cultural racism, a resilient social hierarchy is set where the lives of …
Fast-food for thought: Retail food environments as resources for cognitive health and wellbeing among aging Americans
Sociohistorical contexts of racial violence: Sundown Towns and the Durability of Racialized Public Space
Inequality in Process: Income and Heterogeneous Educational Health Gradients Among Blacks and Whites in the USA
Racial capitalism and firearm violence: Developing a theoretical framework for firearm violence research examining structural racism
Despite the early promise of centering structural racism in explanatory models of firearm violence, there are noticeable gaps in what's been produced thus far; in particular, a deeper and more serious engagement with long-standing theories of racism is needed to further enrich our understanding of how structural inequalities produce unequal burdens of firearm-related harms. Thus, building on theories and concepts from a range of academic fields a…
My neighbourhood is fuzzy, not hard and fast’: Individual and contextual associations with perceived residential neighbourhood boundaries among ageing Americans
Neighbourhoods are fluid social and spatial constructs that vary by person and place. How do residential neighbourhoods shift as people age? This mixed-methods study investigates how perceived neighbourhood boundaries and size vary by individual and contextual characteristics. Semi-structured interviews with 125 adults aged 55–92 years living in the Minneapolis (Minnesota) metropolitan area suggested that neighbourhood boundaries are ‘fuzzy’. Qua…
Risk of Police-Involved Death by Race/Ethnicity and Place, United States, 2012–2018
Objectives. To estimate the risk of mortality from police homicide by race/ethnicity and place in the United States. Methods. We used novel data on police-involved fatalities and Bayesian models to estimate mortality risk for Black, Latino, and White men for all US counties by Census division and metropolitan area type. Results. Police kill, on average, 2.8 men per day. Police were responsible for about 8% of all homicides with adult male victims…
Risk of being killed by police use of force in the United States by age, race–ethnicity, and sex
We use data on police-involved deaths to estimate how the risk of being killed by police use of force in the United States varies across social groups. We estimate the lifetime and age-specific risks of being killed by police by race and sex. We also provide estimates of the proportion of all deaths accounted for by police use of force. We find that African American men and women, American Indian/Alaska Native men and women, and Latino men face h…
Closure of ‘third places’? Exploring potential consequences for collective health and wellbeing
Inequality in Process: Income and Heterogeneous Educational Health Gradients Among Blacks and Whites in the USA
Fast-food for thought: Retail food environments as resources for cognitive health and wellbeing among aging Americans
Neighborhood cognitive amenities? A mixed-methods study of intellectually-stimulating places and cognitive function among older Americans
Neighborhoods structure health and wellbeing in later life. Local spaces can encourage physically active and socially engaged aging in place, and may also nurture opportunities for cognitively-stimulating creative and complex activities such as reading; playing and listening to music; learning; and engagement in galleries, performing arts, and museums. These activities are associated with better cognitive health outcomes. In this exploratory sequ…
Can Neighborhood Social Infrastructure Modify Cognitive Function? A Mixed-Methods Study of Urban-Dwelling Aging Americans
Objectives: Socialization predicts cognitive aging outcomes. Neighborhoods may facilitate socially engaged aging and thus shape cognition. We investigated places where older adults socialized and whether availability of these sites was associated with cognitive outcomes. Methods: Qualitative analysis of interviews and ethnography with 125 older adults (mean age 71 years) in Minneapolis identified where participants socialized outside of home. Thi…
Racial Segregation and Cognitive Function Among Older Adults in the United States: Findings From the Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke Study
Metropolitan segregation was associated with lower cognitive function among older adults, especially for those with lower education living in racially isolated MSAs. This suggests complex associations between individual socioeconomic status, place, and cognitive health
White Health Benefits of Histories of Enslavement: The Case of Opioid Deaths
Popular media and researchers have given increasing attention to the perceived growing alienation and despair of white Americans. The narrative of white decline has been particularly robust in light of the recent uptick in premature deaths of whites from opioid use, but this national conversation has lacked consideration of potential associations between opioid mortality among whites and durable legacies of white advantage that were established t…
Linking History to Contemporary State-Sanctioned Slow Violence through Cultural and Structural Racism
Environmental scientists started documenting the racial inequities of environmental exposures (e.g., proximity to waste facilities or to industrial pollution) in the 1970s and 1980s. Since then, research has documented inequities in exposures to nearly every studied environmental hazard, showing that American society delivers racial violence toward nonwhite families. Through cultural racism, a resilient social hierarchy is set where the lives of …
Beholding Inequality: Race, Gender, and Returns to Physical Attractiveness in the United States
Physical attractiveness is an important axis of social stratification associated with educational attainment, marital patterns, earnings, and more. Still, relative to ethnoracial and gender stratification, physical attractiveness is relatively understudied. In particular, little is known about whether returns to physical attractiveness vary by race or significantly vary by race and gender combined. In this study, we use nationally representative …
Walkable Neighborhoods and Cognition: Implications for the Design of Health Promoting Communities
Objective: This study seeks to examine neighborhood characteristics, physical activity, and health status and their roles in promoting healthy cognitive aging. Methods: Using data from the REasons for Geographic And Racial Difference in Stroke (REGARDS) study ( N =10,289, mean age=73.4 years), we used multilevel linear regression to examine the relationships between walkable neighborhoods (both objectively measured and subjective perceptions), wa…
Cognability: An Ecological Theory of neighborhoods and cognitive aging
Structural Racism and Quantitative Causal Inference: A Life Course Mediation Framework for Decomposing Racial Health Disparities
Quantitative studies of racial health disparities often use static measures of self-reported race and conventional regression estimators, which critics argue is inconsistent with social-constructivist theories of race, racialization, and racism. We demonstrate an alternative counterfactual approach to explain how multiple racialized systems dynamically shape health over time, examining racial inequities in cardiometabolic risk in the National Lon…
Historical Redlining and Contemporary Racial Disparities in Neighborhood Life Expectancy
While evidence suggests a durable relationship between redlining and population health, we currently lack an empirical account of how this historical act of racialized violence produced contemporary inequities. In this paper, we use a mediation framework to evaluate how redlining grades influenced later life expectancy and the degree to which contemporary racial disparities in life expectancy between Black working-class neighborhoods and White pr…
Segregated Patterns of Hospital Care Delivery and Health Outcomes
This cross-sectional study found that higher segregation of hospital care was associated with poorer health outcomes for both Black and White Medicare beneficiaries, with significantly greater negative health outcomes for Black populations, supporting racial segregation as a root cause of health disparities. Policymakers and clinical leaders could address this important public health issue through payment reform efforts and expansion of health in…
Neighborhood ‘Disamenities’: Local barriers and cognitive function among Black and white aging adults
Neighborhood disamenities may be linked to cognitive function among aging residents. Identifying neighborhood factors that pose barriers to accessing community resources may inform upstream policy applications to reduce risk for cognitive decline
My neighbourhood is fuzzy, not hard and fast’: Individual and contextual associations with perceived residential neighbourhood boundaries among ageing Americans
Neighbourhoods are fluid social and spatial constructs that vary by person and place. How do residential neighbourhoods shift as people age? This mixed-methods study investigates how perceived neighbourhood boundaries and size vary by individual and contextual characteristics. Semi-structured interviews with 125 adults aged 55–92 years living in the Minneapolis (Minnesota) metropolitan area suggested that neighbourhood boundaries are ‘fuzzy’. Qua…
L’inégalité à l’œuvre: Race, genre et avantages de la beauté physique perçue aux États-Unis
L’apparence physique, que l’on peut associer, par exemple, au niveau d’éducation, à la situation matrimoniale ou aux revenus, est un axe de la stratification sociale. Pourtant, en comparaison à la stratification ethnoraciale et de genre, la question de la beauté physique est relativement peu étudiée. On sait notamment peu de choses sur la puissance du lien de causalité qui peut exister entre la race et le bénéfice tiré de la beauté physique, ni s…
Racial capitalism and firearm violence: Developing a theoretical framework for firearm violence research examining structural racism
Despite the early promise of centering structural racism in explanatory models of firearm violence, there are noticeable gaps in what's been produced thus far; in particular, a deeper and more serious engagement with long-standing theories of racism is needed to further enrich our understanding of how structural inequalities produce unequal burdens of firearm-related harms. Thus, building on theories and concepts from a range of academic fields a…
Trust, trust repair, and public health: A scoping review
Objective This study investigates the scope of evidence on trust, trust repair, and public health. Methods We identified quantitative studies that evaluated the relationship between trust or trust repair and public health from January 1990 to May 2023. Results were stratified evaluating trust as an exposure or outcome and reporting on trust repair. Data are reported on spatiotemporal trends in publications, level of trust (institutional trust, ge…
Uneven access to essential services and amenities: Geographic disparities in ‘third place’ availability across the United States from 2010 to 2021
Sociohistorical contexts of racial violence: Sundown Towns and the Durability of Racialized Public Space
Drive with me: Utilizing car-based mobile interviews to investigate place and health
While mobile “go-along” methods are increasingly used to understand and conceptualize the interconnections between health and place, most mobile interviews are conducted on foot. This paper investigates how mobile interviews within cars can advance knowledge of nuanced neighborhood navigation and local place-based features that influence health and well-being. The Neighborhoods and Health at All Ages Study interviewed sixty participants between A…
Cognability across adulthood: A qualitative investigation of neighborhoods and cognitive health behaviors
Medicine (16 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Gerontology (10 works) · Demography (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Public health (8 works) · Cognition (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works)