John R Weeks

Biographic Data

ID280967
NAMEJohn R Weeks
GIVEN NAMESJohn R
FAMILY NAMEWeeks
SIGNATUREWEEKS J R
AFFILIATIONSSan Diego State University
ORCID0000-0002-3975-2918
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS45
TOTAL CITATIONS103
AUTHOR COUNT45
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1976
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX6

  • The Great Demographic Illusion: Majority, Minority, and the Expanding American Mainstream

    Open AccessJohn R WeeksARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…2023References: 6

  • Social normative and social network factors associated with adolescent pregnancy: A cross-sectional study of 176 villages in rural Honduras

    Open AccessHolly Baker, Holly B Shakya et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2020

    BACKGROUND: Adolescent pregnancy and childbirth are common throughout Central America. While gendered beliefs promoting motherhood are a known risk factor, their association with adolescent childbirth within the social networks of Central American communities is unknown. METHODS: This was a cross-sectional study looking at adolescent childbirth amongst women ages 15-20 years (N = 2990) in rural Honduras, using reproductive health data on all indi…

  • Spatial analysis of individual- and village-level sociodemographic characteristics associated with age at marriage among married adolescents in rural Niger

    Open AccessHolly Baker, Holly B Shakya et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    Our findings suggest that large-scale approaches to eliminating child marriage in these communities may be less successful if they do not take into consideration geographically and socially determined contextual factors at the village level

  • Evaluating links between dynamic urban landscapes and under-five child mortality in Accra, Ghana

    Open AccessSory Toure, John R Weeks et al.ARTICLEDemographic Research2020References: 23

    The primary objectives of this study are to examine intra-urban spatial variation in the rates of under-five-years-old child mortality (5q0) in Accra in 2000 and 2010, as well as between those two dates, and to evaluate potential connections between the ph

  • Do village-level normative and network factors help explain spatial variability in adolescent childbearing in rural Honduras

    Open AccessHolly Baker, John R Weeks et al.ARTICLESSM - Population Health2019

    Adolescent childbearing rates are higher in Central America than almost anywhere else. However, in this research we discovered that adolescent childbearing exhibits variability from one village to another, and we might discover factors associated with this spatial variability that can help us understand key characteristics underlying the pattern of early childbearing. To do this, we assessed the village-level normative and network factors associa…

  • Census

    Open AccessJohn R WeeksCHAPTERWiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of…2017

    A census is a complete enumeration of a population. Censuses have been around for a long time, but only since the creation of nation‐states have they become institutionalized as important sources of demographic information. Censuses provide information about a population not otherwise obtainable by any other means except a population register. As with all sources of information, a census is subject to errors, including coverage error, content err…

  • Demographic Transition

    Open AccessJohn R WeeksCHAPTERWiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of…2017

    The demographic transition is the shift from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates, with an interstitial growth in population. It has occurred, or is in the process of occurring, in every country on earth, and has dramatically shaped the modern world over the past two hundred years. It began with our scientific control over the environment, springing from the same changes that produced the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolu…

  • Malthus, Thomas Robert (1766–1834)

    Open AccessJohn R WeeksOTHERThe Blackwell Encyclopedia of…2017

    Thomas Robert Malthus (1766–1834) is unquestionably the most influential writer in history on the topic of population. This was generally unintentional on his part because he was trained in Jesus College at Cambridge University in England with the early ambition of becoming a clergyman. Technically, Malthus took his degree in mathematics, but his biographers have made it clear that he aspired to be, and became, a parish priest in the Church of En…

  • Fertility and urban context: A case study from Ghana, West Africa, using remotely sensed imagery and GIS

    Open AccessMagdalena Benza, John R Weeks et al.ARTICLEPopulation Space and Place2017References: 13

    Sub‐Saharan Africa has the highest levels of fertility in the world, despite rapid urban growth in most nations of the region. While there are many reasons for the fact that fertility decline is slow in Africa, we hypothesize that the relationship between fertility and urbanization is obscured by the fact that urbanization takes place along a gradient. In the most urban places (e.g., neighborhoods of the largest cities), fertility is apt to be ve…

  • Agency, access, and Anopheles: Neighborhood health perceptions and the implications for community health interventions in Accra, Ghana

    Open AccessMarta M Jankowska, Justin Stoler et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2015

    BACKGROUND: Social and environmental factors are increasingly recognized for their ability to influence health outcomes at both individual and neighborhood scales in the developing urban world. Yet issues of spatial heterogeneity in these complex environments may obscure unique elements of neighborhood life that may be protective or harmful to human health. Resident perceptions of neighborhood effects on health may help to fill gaps in our interp…

  • Defining neighborhood boundaries for urban health research in developing countries: A case study of Accra, Ghana

    Open AccessRyan Engstrom, Caetlin Ofiesh et al.ARTICLEJournal of Maps2013

    The neighborhood has been used as a sampling unit for exploring variations in health outcomes. In a variety of studies census tracts or ZIP codes have been used as proxies for neighborhoods because the boundaries are pre-defined units for which other data are readily available. However these spatial units can be arbitrary and do not account for social-cultural behaviors and identities that are significant to residents. In this study for the city …

  • Immigration and Transnationalism: Rethinking the Role of the State in Latin America

    Open AccessGregory Weeks, John R Weeks et al.ARTICLEInternational Migration2013Cited by: 6References: 9

    As more Latin American migrants make their way to the United States, the issue of transnationalism has received increased scholarly attention. Transnationalism refers to the delinking of the individual from his or her government and an increase in international ties as a result of the economic globalization that promotes the movement of people, goods, money, and ideas. Prevailing consensus is that the state, particularly in Latin America, is weak…

  • Estimating spatial inequalities of urban child mortality

    Open AccessMarta Jankowska, Marta M Jankowska et al.ARTICLEDemographic Research2013Cited by: 3References: 34

    BACKGROUND: Recent studies indicate that the traditional rural-urban dichotomy pointing to cities as places of better health in the developing world can be complicated by poverty differentials. Knowledge of spatial patterns is essential to understanding the processes that link individual demographic outcomes to characteristics of a place. A significant limitation, however, is the lack of spatial data and methods that offer flexibility in data inp…

  • Health, poverty, and place in Accra, Ghana: Mapping neighborhoods

    Open AccessGregory M Verutes, Magdalena B Fiocco et al.ARTICLEJournal of Maps2012

    The overall objective of our research project is to understand the spatial inequality in health in Accra, the capital city of Ghana. We also utilize GIS technology to measure the association of adverse health and mortality outcomes with neighborhood ecology. We approached this in variety of ways, including multivariate analysis of imagery classification and census data. A key element in the research has been to obtain in-person interviews from 3,…

  • Connecting the Dots Between Health, Poverty and Place in Accra, Ghana

    John R Weeks, Arthur Getis et al.ARTICLEAnnals of the Association of…2012Cited by: 4References: 16

    West Africa has a rapidly growing population, an increasing fraction of which lives in urban informal settlements characterized by inadequate infrastructure and relatively high health risks. Little is known, however, about the spatial or health characteristics of cities in this region or about the spatial inequalities in health within them. In this article we show how we have been creating a data-rich field laboratory in Accra, Ghana, to connect …

  • Spatial Epidemiology of HIV Among Injection Drug Users in Tijuana, Mexico

    Kimberly C Brouwer, Melanie L Rusch et al.ARTICLEAnnals of the Association of…2012References: 39

    hotspot near the Mexico/U.S. border, encompassing the red-light district. Spatial correlates of HIV included syphilis infection, female gender, younger age, increased hours on the street per day, and higher number of injection partners. Almost all HIV seroconverters injected within a 2.5 block radius of each other immediately prior to seroconversion. Only history of syphilis infection and female gender were strongly associated with HIV in the are…

  • When urban taps run dry: Sachet water consumption and health effects in low income neighborhoods of Accra, Ghana

    Open AccessJustin Stoler, Günther Fink et al.ARTICLEHealth & Place2011Cited by: 10References: 10

  • Adolescents’ Use of Indoor Tanning: A Large-Scale Evaluation of Psychosocial, Environmental, and Policy-Level Correlates

    Joni A Mayer, Susan I Woodruff et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2011Cited by: 5References: 34

    Objectives. We evaluated psychosocial, built-environmental, and policy-related correlates of adolescents’ indoor tanning use. Methods. We developed 5 discrete data sets in the 100 most populous US cities, based on interviews of 6125 adolescents (aged 14–17 years) and their parents, analysis of state indoor tanning laws, interviews with enforcement experts, computed density of tanning facilities, and evaluations of these 3399 facilities’ practices…

  • Neighborhoods and Fertility in Accra, Ghana: An Amoeba-Based Approach

    John R Weeks, Arthur Getis et al.ARTICLEAnnals of the Association of…2010Cited by: 8References: 30

    Fertility levels remain high in most of sub-Saharan Africa, despite recent declines, and even in a large capital city such as Accra, Ghana, women are having children at a pace that is well above replacement level and this will contribute to significant levels of future population growth in the city. Our purpose in this paper is to evaluate the way in which neighborhood context may shape reproductive behavior in Accra. In the process, we introduce…

  • Who's crossing the border: New data on undocumented immigrants to the United States

    Open AccessJohn R Weeks, Justin Stoler et al.ARTICLEPopulation Space and Place2009Cited by: 3

    The majority of undocumented immigrants to the United States enter through the southern border and most are from Mexico. Researchers in the US have been able to create estimates of how many unauthorised immigrants come from each country, but there has been little research on the geographical origins of immigrants from within Mexico. In this research we make use of a unique unduplicated file of people detained at or near the border by the US Borde…

  • Demographic Transition Theory

    Open AccessJohn R WeeksOTHERThe Blackwell Encyclopedia of…2007

    Although it dominated demographic thinking in the latter half of the twentieth century, demographic transition theory actually began as only a description of the demographic changes that had taken place over time in the advanced nations. In particular, it described the transition from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates, with an interstitial spurt in growth rates leading to a larger population at the end of the transition than…

  • Malthus, Thomas Robert (1766–1834)

    Open AccessJohn R WeeksOTHERThe Blackwell Encyclopedia of…2007

    Thomas Robert Malthus is unquestionably the most influential writer in history on the topic of population. This was generally unintentional on his part because he was trained in Jesus College at Cambridge University in England with the early ambition of becoming a clergyman, and he was ordained into the Church of England. After graduation from Cambridge he divided his time between his duties as curate in a small parish church in Albury, south of …

  • Can we spot a neighborhood from the air? Defining neighborhood structure in Accra, Ghana

    Open AccessJohn R Weeks, Allan G Hill et al.ARTICLEGeoJournal2007Cited by: 15References: 4

  • Ethnic Residential Patterns as Predictors of Intra-Urban Child Mortality Inequality in Accra, Ghana

    John R Weeks, Allan G Hill et al.ARTICLEUrban Geography2006Cited by: 3References: 11

    As cities of developing nations absorb an increasing fraction of the world's population increase, questions have arisen about the potential for emerging inequalities in health within places that are already suffering from inadequate infrastructure. In this paper we explore the pattern of child mortality inequalities (as a proxy for overall health levels) within a large sub-Saharan African city-Accra, Ghana-and then we examine the extent to which …

  • What did he know, and when did he know it? Putting Glenn Trewartha's call for population geography into historical perspective

    Open AccessJohn R WeeksARTICLEPopulation Space and Place2004Cited by: 1References: 4

    Glenn Trewartha's Presidential Address to the AAG in 1953 sought to establish population as the connective tissue between physical and human geography. In discussing the important role of population studies in the discipline, Trewartha was not a voice in the wilderness; rather he was one of a growing body of voices calling for increased understanding of the role that demographic change can play not just in the social world, but in the way in whic…