Stephen A Matthews
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 249991 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Stephen A Matthews |
| NOMBRES | Stephen A |
| APELLIDO | Matthews |
| FIRMA | MATTHEWS S A |
| AFILIACIONES | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1645-4854 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 64 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 645 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 64 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1993 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Time-Use Sequences
This study demonstrates the potential for interventions to integrate tools for collecting and communicating spatial and temporal contexts of patient routines, such as the types of activities that characterize how patients spend significant portions of time and identification of when, where, and how to encourage health-promoting changes in routine activities. Time-use patterns provide insight for tailoring behavior change interventions so that cli…
Activity Space
Activity space research has an established tradition in geography, particularly in behavioral geography. Across many health and social behavioral areas of research fields, there is an increasing need to better understand place‐based exposures and how these influence individual‐level outcomes. In this context, an activity space perspective provides an opportunity to redefine how the relationships between people and places are examined. Technologic…
Resisting Amnesia
Suburban inequality is the focus of this double issue of RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences . This introduction addresses the limited related scholarship, describes how inequality unfolds differently in suburban communities than in urban and rural communities, and draws attention to urgent issues related to stratification between and within suburban communities. We argue that inattention to the study of suburban space…
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
The Role of Infant Health Problems in Constraining Interneighborhood Mobility
Infant health problems are a persistent concern across the United States, disproportionally affecting socioeconomically vulnerable communities. We investigate how inequalities in infant health contribute to differences in interneighborhood commuting mobility and shape neighborhoods' embeddedness in the citywide structure of employment networks in Chicago over a 14-year period. We use the Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics' O…
Does the relationship between racial, ethnic, and income diversity and social capital vary across the United States? A county-level analysis using geographically weighted regression
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 …
Unemployment and Opioid-Related Mortality Rates in U.S. Counties
We examine two mechanisms–social capital and socio-behavior–potentially linking unemployment rates to opioid-related mortality and investigate whether the mechanisms differ geographically by the pace of the opioid crisis. Applying path analysis techniques to 2015–2017 opioid-related mortality in U.S. counties (N=2,648), we find that (1) high unemployment rates are not directly associated with opioid-related mortality rates; (2) high unemployment …
Methods and applications in spatial demography
Spatial variability of total fertility rate and crude birth rate in a low-fertility country
Exploring Heterogeneities with Geographically Weighted Quantile Regression
Geographically weighted quantile regression (GWQR) has been proposed as a spatial analytical technique to simultaneously explore two heterogeneities, one of spatial heterogeneity with respect to data relationships over space and one of response heterogeneity across different locations of the outcome distribution. However, one limitation of GWQR framework is that the existing inference procedures are established based on asymptotic approximation, …
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…
Can Social Media Anti-abuse Policies Work? A Quasi-experimental Study of Online Sexist and Racist Slurs
The authors use the timing of a change in Twitter's rules regarding abusive content to test the effectiveness of organizational policies aimed at stemming online harassment. Institutionalist theories of social control suggest that such interventions can be efficacious if they are perceived as legitimate, whereas theories of psychological reactance suggest that users may instead ratchet up aggressive behavior in response to the sanctioning authori…
Protocol for a cross sectional study of cancer risk, environmental exposures and lifestyle behaviors in a diverse community sample
ClinicalTrials.gov NCT02094170 , 03/21/2014
Would increasing access to recreational places promote healthier weights and a healthier nation
Convergent validity of an activity-space survey for use in health research
An Inclusive Treadmill? Expansion of Industrial Maize Farming and Simple-Commodity Producers in Turkey
The growth of industrial maize farming in Turkey during the first decade of this century points to the primacy of economic development over ecological concerns at a time when global nitrogen and phosphorus flows already exceeded safe limits. In this article we focus on the relations of production as the driver of an economic sector that not only has ecological but also social costs. Through a trend analysis of maize yields as our ecological indic…
Long-Term Weight Loss Effects of a Behavioral Weight Management Program
This study examined whether community food environments altered the longer-term effects of a nationwide behavioral weight management program on body mass index (BMI). The sample was comprised of 98,871 male weight management program participants and 15,385 female participants, as well as 461,302 and 37,192 inverse propensity-score weighted matched male and female controls. We measured the community food environment by counting the number of super…
How many days of global positioning system (GPS) monitoring do you need to measure activity space environments in health research
How Does the Neighborhood “Come through the Door?” Concentrated Disadvantage, Residential Instability, and the Home Environment for Preschoolers
Living in a disadvantaged neighborhood is associated with heightened risk for poor school readiness and health outcomes in early childhood, and the home environment is thought to be a primary mechanism by which neighborhood context impacts preschoolers. This study examined the effects of neighborhood concentrated disadvantage and neighborhood residential instability on the home physical environment and home learning environment for preschoolers i…
Co-Editors’ Note
Demography is a scientific journal that publishes peer-reviewed research on a broad range of topics related to the study of human populations.Part of our intellectual growth as a field is to encourage debate and exchange, and the forum the journal provides for this activity is a Commentary.Commentaries are designed to focus on the scientific issues raised in a published paper and to reflect current conversations in the field.In the August 2017 is…
Industrial Maize as a Commodity System
During the decade of 2000‐2010, industrial maize production in Turkey doubled to approximately four million tons and the area under maize cultivation increased by ten per cent. Concomitant with the increase in total output, private agri‐food industry came to control 90 per cent of total production by 2010. Using exploratory spatial analysis and spatial regression methods, we are able to have a more detailed and spatially explicit regional study o…
Uncertain Geographic Context Problem
Across the social, behavioral, and health sciences there has been a growing interest in the effects of place – or geographic context – on people, specifically on how place is associated with individual attitudes, behaviors, health, and overall wellbeing. The conventional approach linking people and place uses a geocode to embed an individual into a geographical context; but this approach, in some applications, is conceptually naïve and has limita…
The legacy of slavery and contemporary declines in heart disease mortality in the U.S. South
Nearly 50 years of declining heart disease mortality is a major public health success, but one marked by uneven progress by place and race. At the county level, progress in heart disease mortality reduction among Blacks is associated with place-based historical legacy of slavery. Effective and equitable public health prevention efforts should consider the historical context of place and the social and economic institutions that may play a role in…
Between exposure, access and use
Beyond the Census Tract
The census tract-based residential segregation literature rests on problematic assumptions about geographic scale and proximity. We pursue a new tract-free approach that combines explicitly spatial concepts and methods to examine racial segregation across egocentric local environments of varying size. Using 2000 Census data for the 100 largest U.S. metropolitan areas, we compute a spatially modified version of the information theory index H to de…
The geographic scale of Metropolitan racial segregation
This article addresses an aspect of racial residential segregation that has been largely ignored in prior work: the issue of geographic scale. In some metropolitan areas, racial groups are segregated over large regions, with predominately white regions, predominately black regions, and so on, whereas in other areas, the separation of racial groups occurs over much shorter distances. Here we develop an approach—featuring the segregation profile an…
Activity space environment and dietary and physical activity behaviors
Race and space in the 1990s
Urban Poverty and Neighborhood Effects on Crime
Research on neighborhoods and crime is on a remarkable growth trajectory. In this article, we survey important recent developments in the scholarship on neighborhood effects and the spatial stratification of poverty and urban crime. We advance the case that, in understanding the impact of neighborhoods and poverty on crime, sociological and criminological research would benefit from expanding the analytical focus from residential neighborhoods to…
Geographies of women's health
Between exposure, access and use
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…
How many days of global positioning system (GPS) monitoring do you need to measure activity space environments in health research
Individual Health Care System Distrust and Neighborhood Social Environment
The Contributions of Places to Metropolitan Ethnoracial Diversity and Segregation
Although the trend toward greater ethnoracial diversity in the United States has been documented at a variety of geographic scales, most research tracks diversity one scale at a time. Our study bridges scales, asking how the diversity and segregation patterns of metropolitan areas are influenced by shifts in the racial/ethnic composition of their constituent places. Drawing on 1980–2010 decennial census data, we use a new visual tool to compare t…
What has geography got to do with it? Using GWR to explore place-specific associations with prenatal care utilization
Progress in Spatial Demography
BACKGROUND: Demography is an inherently spatial science, yet the application of spatial data and methods to demographic research has tended to lag that of other disciplines. In recent years, there has been a surge in interest in adding a spatial perspective to demography. This sharp rise in interest has been driven in part by rapid advances in geospatial data, new technologies, and methods of analysis. OBJECTIVES: We offer a brief introduction to…
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
Resisting Amnesia
Suburban inequality is the focus of this double issue of RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences . This introduction addresses the limited related scholarship, describes how inequality unfolds differently in suburban communities than in urban and rural communities, and draws attention to urgent issues related to stratification between and within suburban communities. We argue that inattention to the study of suburban space…
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…
Small Cities USA
Using quantile regression to examine the effects of inequality across the mortality distribution in the U.S. counties
How Does the Neighborhood “Come through the Door?” Concentrated Disadvantage, Residential Instability, and the Home Environment for Preschoolers
Living in a disadvantaged neighborhood is associated with heightened risk for poor school readiness and health outcomes in early childhood, and the home environment is thought to be a primary mechanism by which neighborhood context impacts preschoolers. This study examined the effects of neighborhood concentrated disadvantage and neighborhood residential instability on the home physical environment and home learning environment for preschoolers i…
State-level changes in US racial and ethnic diversity, 1980 to 2015
Background: Few studies have examined long-term changes in ethnoracial diversity for US states despite the potential social, economic, and political ramifications of such changes at the state level. Objective: We describe shifts in diversity magnitude and structure from 1980 through 2015 to determine if states are following a universal upward path. Methods: ) measures of diversity magnitude based on five panethnic populations. A typology characte…
Confidentiality considerations for use of social-spatial data on the social determinants of health
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 …
Population Forces and Environmental Change
In this article we report on preliminary observations from an ongoing longitudinal study of the reciprocal relations between population and environmental factors in Western Chitwan, Nepal (a recently deforested, settled, and cultivated area). We discuss population forces associated with environmental change, focusing on forest utilization and flora biodiversity in an area where many residents rely on local forest resources. Our work draws on data…
Residential Inequality
residential inequality; spatial sorting; life chances; race/ethnicity; income
Curriculum redevelopment
This paper reports on the redevelopment of medical geography courses taught to both undergraduate and graduate students in a US university. The author participated in a curriculum development seminar that focused explicitly on the creation of new courses that incorporate perspectives from current research on women and other marginalised, ignored or forgotten groups. The experience and feedback from this seminar led to changes in undergraduate cou…
The Geography of Aids
We begin this volume by describing the structure of the HIV its life-cycle process mode of transmission and impact on the human immune system and other parts of the body. From there we proceed to a discussion of the major theories pertaining to the geographic origin of the HIV. Of the regions to be considered Central Africa is the first since it appears to be especially important as a possible index location for the HIV as well as the potential f…
Teaching medical geography
A ‘Teaching Medical Geography’ workshop was held at the 1994 Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), co‐sponsored by the Medical Geography Specialty Group of the AAG and the International Geographical Union (IGU) Commission on Health, Environment and Development. These papers report on a selection of methodological and theoretical issues from the workshop
Theoretical workshops
Theoretical workshops
Geographies of women's health
Mama Might Be Better Off Dead
Population Forces and Environmental Change
In this article we report on preliminary observations from an ongoing longitudinal study of the reciprocal relations between population and environmental factors in Western Chitwan, Nepal (a recently deforested, settled, and cultivated area). We discuss population forces associated with environmental change, focusing on forest utilization and flora biodiversity in an area where many residents rely on local forest resources. Our work draws on data…
Geo-ethnography
This research article focuses on the coupling of geographic information system (GIS) technologies with ethnographic data, an approach we refer to as geo-ethnography. The data used here were gathered in an ongoing, multi-site study of low-income families and their children. Throughout our work, the goals have been to think creatively about how GIS can be used in welfare research, to stretch the technology, and to revise the methodologies we curren…
The Salience of Neighborhood
The geographic scale of Metropolitan racial segregation
This article addresses an aspect of racial residential segregation that has been largely ignored in prior work: the issue of geographic scale. In some metropolitan areas, racial groups are segregated over large regions, with predominately white regions, predominately black regions, and so on, whereas in other areas, the separation of racial groups occurs over much shorter distances. Here we develop an approach—featuring the segregation profile an…
Beyond the Census Tract
The census tract-based residential segregation literature rests on problematic assumptions about geographic scale and proximity. We pursue a new tract-free approach that combines explicitly spatial concepts and methods to examine racial segregation across egocentric local environments of varying size. Using 2000 Census data for the 100 largest U.S. metropolitan areas, we compute a spatially modified version of the information theory index H to de…
Race and space in the 1990s
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 …
Activity space environment and dietary and physical activity behaviors
Individual Health Care System Distrust and Neighborhood Social Environment
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…
White Infant Mortality in Appalachian States, 1976–1980 and 1996–2000
Purpose: Appalachian counties have historically had elevated infant mortality rates. Changes in infant mortality disparities over time in Appalachia are not well‐understood. This study explores spatial inequalities in white infant mortality rates over time in the 13 Appalachian states, comparing counties in Appalachia with non‐Appalachian counties. Methods: Data are analyzed for 1,100 counties in 13 Appalachian states that include 420 counties de…
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
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…
Engineering online and in-person social networks to sustain physical activity
ClinicalTrials.gov NCT01142804
Geography (36 obras) · Sociology (36 obras) · Medicine (30 obras) · Psychology (21 obras) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (20 obras) · Demography (19 obras) · Health disparities and outcomes (19 obras) · Political science (18 obras) · Environmental health (16 obras) · Population (16 obras)