Stephen J Mooney
Biographic Data
| ID | 296647 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen J Mooney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen J |
| FAMILY NAME | Mooney |
| SIGNATURE | MOONEY S J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3332-7088 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 107 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Health and strength in the margins
Zines, in the form of independently published print media, are underutilised resources for learning about the health of marginalised communities. Aligning our paper with critical approaches, we examined zines entries (n = 33) authored by Queer and Transgender Black, Indigenous, and other People of Colour (QTBIPOC) for themes of health, strength, oppression and intersectionality. Zines were retrieved from two archives: the ZAPP Zine Collection and…
Neighborhood Physical Disinvestment and Incident Diabetes between visits 1 and 2 of the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL)
Neighborhood-scale environmental factors, including disinvestment in infrastructure, may impact cardiometabolic disease risk. To our knowledge, no prior studies have investigated the association between neighborhood disinvestment and incident diabetes. We used a virtual street audit of Google Street View Imagery to generate a neighborhood disinvestment score for participants' residential addresses in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of L…
The Association Between Vacant Lot Redevelopment and Violent/Firearm Violent Crime
Objectives. To investigate the association between vacant lot redevelopment and violent crime and firearm violent crime. Methods. We used a quasi-experimental study with a difference-in-difference (DID) design. The study population was 254 vacant lots located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The exposure was redevelopment, defined as repurposing the vacant lot into a permanent structure (e.g., housing) between 2007 and 2023. The outcome was violent…
The role of sidewalk availability in gentrification
Our results demonstrate a consistent relationship between sidewalk availability and gentrification, although different associations with BIPOC population change by context, contributing to the ongoing discourse on gentrification, urban development, and neighborhood change
Kernel Density Bandwidth Specification in Neighborhood Violence Prevention Research
Built Environment Change over Time Using Google Street View Assessments of Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL) Cities
Relationship between neighborhood walkability, perceived neighborhood features, and depression among treatment-seeking veterans
A population health perspective in mental health shifts attention from interventions delivered at the individual level to broad determinants, such as neighborhood characteristics, that impact the mental health of communities. The walkability of an environment has emerged as a potentially important determinant of mental health, but little research has explored relationships between walkable environments and depression. Additionally, though PTSD sy…
Intersectional trends in poor mental health and health inequities across the US
Though mental distress poses a large and growing threat to population health, our understanding of how its social distribution has changed over time and what these changes imply for mental health equity is limited. To address this, we use data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to non-parametrically describe how age-standardized prevalence of frequent mental distress (FMD) and social inequities in FMD have changed in the United S…
Artificial Intelligence-based automated CT brain interpretation to accelerate treatment for acute stroke in rural India
In resource-limited settings, timely treatment of acute stroke is dependent upon accurate diagnosis that draws on non-contrast computed tomography (NCCT) scans of the head. Artificial Intelligence (AI) based devices may be able to assist non-specialist physicians in NCCT interpretation, thereby enabling faster interventions for acute stroke patients in these settings. We evaluated the impact of an AI device by comparing the time to intervention (…
Advancing Active Transportation Through Mobility Justice and Centering Community
Objectives: We established a community-academic-policy partnership to examine mobility challenges and opportunities by centering members of a diverse South Seattle neighborhood. Methods: = 10); and (c) mobility audits. We also engaged extensively in community dissemination and advocacy. Results: Four major themes emerged: experiences with the built environment; conflicting views on promoting active transportation; experiences of danger, violence,…
Using SaTScan to identify and map nightlife areas in Philadelphia, PA
Many cities have promoted nightlife or entertainment districts - concentrations of restaurants, bars, and other entertainment-related businesses - in order to revitalize declining neighborhoods. While entertainment districts can boost economic growth, they can also contribute to public health risks including violent crime, traffic accidents, and other harms. With data from the National Establishment Time Series (NETS) business database, we develo…
Identifying emerging hot spots of road traffic injury severity using spatiotemporal methods
A few key road sections, particularly in rural areas, show elevated levels of road traffic injury severity, warranting targeted interventions. Our method for evaluating spatiotemporal trends in MVC, road traffic injuries, and deaths in a LMIC includes sufficient detail for replication and adaptation in other countries, which is useful for targeting countermeasures and tracking progress
A tale of many neighborhoods
Neighborhood built and food environment in relation to glycemic control in people with type 2 diabetes in the moving to health study
Road Traffic Injuries and the Built Environment in Bogotá, Colombia, 2015–2019
The Burden of Injuries Associated With E-Bikes, Powered Scooters, Hoverboards, and Bicycles in the United States
Objectives. To describe the national burden of injuries associated with e-bikes, bicycles, hoverboards, and powered scooters (micromobility devices) in the United States. Methods. We compared patterns and trends for 1 933 296 estimated injuries associated with micromobility devices from 2019 to 2022 using National Electronic Injury Surveillance System data. Results. The population-based rates of e-bike and powered scooter injuries increased by 29…
Pediatric emergency department visits for pedestrian injuries in relation to the enactment of Complete Streets policy
Introduction: This study aimed to evaluate the rate of pediatric emergency department (ED) visits for pedestrian injuries in relation to the enactment of the Complete Streets policy. Methods: The National Complete Streets policies were codified by county and associated with each hospital's catchment area and date of enactment. Pedestrian injury-related ED visits were identified across 40 children's hospitals within the Pediatric Health Informatio…
Reproducibility and Scientific Integrity of Big Data Research in Urban Public Health and Digital Epidemiology
The emergence of big data science presents a unique opportunity to improve public-health research practices. Because working with big data is inherently complex, big data research must be clear and transparent to avoid reproducibility issues and positively impact population health. Timely implementation of solution-focused approaches is critical as new data sources and methods take root in public-health research, including urban public health and…
Micro-scale pedestrian streetscapes and physical activity in Hispanic/Latino adults
We examined associations of micro-scale environment attributes (e.g., sidewalks, street crossings) with three physical activity (PA) measures among Hispanic/Latino adults (n = 1776) living in San Diego County, CA. Systematic observation was used to quantify micro-scale environment attributes near each participant's home. Total PA was assessed with accelerometers, and PA for transportation and recreation were assessed by validated self-report. Alt…
The geographic distribution of retail tobacco outlets in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Not quite a block party
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed mobility inequities within cities. In response, cities are rapidly implementing street reallocation initiatives. These interventions provide space for walking and cycling, however, other mobility needs (e.g., essential workers, deliveries) may be impeded by these reallocation decisions. Informed by mobility justice frameworks, we examined socio-spatial differences in access to street reallocations in Seattle, Was…
Pathways between objective and perceived neighborhood factors among Black breast cancer survivors
Objective neighborhood disorder might be related to perceived disorder directly and indirectly through perceptions of neighborhood social cohesion
Exposure to unhealthy product advertising
This study aimed to understand socio-spatial inequalities in the placement of unhealthy commodity advertisements at transportation stops within the Central Belt of Scotland and to measure advertisement exposure using children's individual-level mobility data. We found that children who resided within more deprived areas had greater contact with the transport network and also greater exposure to unhealthy food and drink product advertising, compar…
Google street view image availability in the Bronx and San Diego, 2007–2020
Walkability measures to predict the likelihood of walking in a place
Freedom from the station
Pathways from neighborhood poverty to depression among older adults
Development and deployment of the Computer Assisted Neighborhood Visual Assessment System (Canvas) to measure health-related neighborhood conditions
Neighborhood Disorder and Physical Activity among Older Adults
The Promise, Practicalities, and Perils of Virtually Auditing Neighborhoods Using Google Street View
In-person audits to collect data on neighborhood characteristics offer opportunities to study the mechanisms that link neighborhood conditions to unequal outcomes for individuals and communities, but the expense and logistical difficulties associated with conducting neighborhood audits have limited their use. The images collected by Google Street View provide a promising alternative for researchers to measure neighborhood environments across citi…
Assessing Google Street View Image Availability in Latin American Cities
Virtual audits using Google Street View are an increasingly popular method of assessing neighborhood environments for health and urban planning research. However, the validity of these studies may be threatened by issues of image availability, image age, and variance of image age, particularly in the Global South. This study identifies patterns of Street View image availability, image age, and image age variance across cities in Latin America and…
Development of a Neighborhood Walkability Index for Studying Neighborhood Physical Activity Contexts in Communities across the U.S. over the Past Three Decades
Using Universal Kriging to Improve Neighborhood Physical Disorder Measurement
Ordinary kriging, a spatial interpolation technique, is commonly used in social sciences to estimate neighborhood attributes such as physical disorder. Universal kriging, developed and used in physical sciences, extends ordinary kriging by supplementing the spatial model with additional covariates. We measured physical disorder on 1,826 sampled block faces across four U.S. cities (New York, Philadelphia, Detroit, and San Jose) using Google Street…
Disparities in trajectories of changes in the unhealthy food environment in New York City
Protecting Personally Identifiable Information When Using Online Geographic Tools for Public Health Research
Use of Google Street View to Assess Environmental Contributions to Pedestrian Injury
Objectives. To demonstrate an information technology–based approach to assess characteristics of streets and intersections associated with injuries that is less costly and time-consuming than location-based studies of pedestrian injury. Methods. We used imagery captured by Google Street View from 2007 to 2011 to assess 9 characteristics of 532 intersections within New York City. We controlled for estimated pedestrian count and estimated the relat…
Google street view image availability in the Bronx and San Diego, 2007–2020
Walkability measures to predict the likelihood of walking in a place
The Burden of Injuries Associated With E-Bikes, Powered Scooters, Hoverboards, and Bicycles in the United States
Objectives. To describe the national burden of injuries associated with e-bikes, bicycles, hoverboards, and powered scooters (micromobility devices) in the United States. Methods. We compared patterns and trends for 1 933 296 estimated injuries associated with micromobility devices from 2019 to 2022 using National Electronic Injury Surveillance System data. Results. The population-based rates of e-bike and powered scooter injuries increased by 29…
Residential neighborhood features associated with objectively measured walking near home
Built Environment Change over Time Using Google Street View Assessments of Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL) Cities
Exposure to unhealthy product advertising
This study aimed to understand socio-spatial inequalities in the placement of unhealthy commodity advertisements at transportation stops within the Central Belt of Scotland and to measure advertisement exposure using children's individual-level mobility data. We found that children who resided within more deprived areas had greater contact with the transport network and also greater exposure to unhealthy food and drink product advertising, compar…
Neighborhood food environment, dietary fatty acid biomarkers, and cardiac arrest risk
Stigma and the etiology of depression among the obese
Development and deployment of the Computer Assisted Neighborhood Visual Assessment System (Canvas) to measure health-related neighborhood conditions
Innovative Women's Poetry in the United Kingdom
This article presents an overview, from a publishing and poetics perspective, of innovative women's poetry in the United Kingdom in the present day, examining some of the issues around access and representation of women's writing in that context. Conferences, festivals and anthologies are considered, alongside information from poetry publishing houses in the field, including a reading of the current scape of innovative women's writing in the Unit…
Neighborhood physical disorder in New York City
Neighborhood physical disorder, or the deterioration of urban environments, is associated with negative mental and physical health outcomes. Eleven trained raters used CANVAS, a web-based system for conducting reliable virtual street audits, to collect data on nine indicators of physical disorder using Google Street View imagery of 532 block faces in New York City, New York, USA. We combined the block face indicator data into a disorder scale usi…
Quantifying Distance Overestimation From Global Positioning System in Urban Spaces
Objectives. To investigate accuracy of distance measures computed from Global Positioning System (GPS) points in New York City. Methods. We performed structured walks along urban streets carrying Globalsat DG-100 GPS Data Logger devices in highest and lowest quartiles of building height and tree canopy cover. We used ArcGIS version 10.1 to select walks and compute the straight-line distance (Geographic Information System–measured) and sum of dist…
Use of Google Street View to Assess Environmental Contributions to Pedestrian Injury
Objectives. To demonstrate an information technology–based approach to assess characteristics of streets and intersections associated with injuries that is less costly and time-consuming than location-based studies of pedestrian injury. Methods. We used imagery captured by Google Street View from 2007 to 2011 to assess 9 characteristics of 532 intersections within New York City. We controlled for estimated pedestrian count and estimated the relat…
Protecting Personally Identifiable Information When Using Online Geographic Tools for Public Health Research
Stigma and the etiology of depression among the obese
Model-based and design-based inference goals frame how to account for neighborhood clustering in studies of health in overlapping context types
Accounting for non-independence in health research often warrants attention. Particularly, the availability of geographic information systems data has increased the ease with which studies can add measures of the local "neighborhood" even if participant recruitment was through other contexts, such as schools or clinics. We highlight a tension between two perspectives that is often present, but particularly salient when more than one type of poten…
Pathways from neighborhood poverty to depression among older adults
Neighborhood Disorder and Physical Activity among Older Adults
The Promise, Practicalities, and Perils of Virtually Auditing Neighborhoods Using Google Street View
In-person audits to collect data on neighborhood characteristics offer opportunities to study the mechanisms that link neighborhood conditions to unequal outcomes for individuals and communities, but the expense and logistical difficulties associated with conducting neighborhood audits have limited their use. The images collected by Google Street View provide a promising alternative for researchers to measure neighborhood environments across citi…
Neighborhood food environment, dietary fatty acid biomarkers, and cardiac arrest risk
Freedom from the station
Development of a Neighborhood Walkability Index for Studying Neighborhood Physical Activity Contexts in Communities across the U.S. over the Past Three Decades
Disparities in trajectories of changes in the unhealthy food environment in New York City
Evaluation of the secondary use of electronic health records to detect seasonal, holiday-related, and rare events related to traumatic injury and poisoning
Though EHR systems were developed to prioritize operational rather than analytic priorities and have consequent limitations for surveillance, our EHR enrichment analysis nonetheless re-identified expected temporal population health patterns. EHRs are potentially a valuable source of information to inform public health policy, both in retrospective analysis and in a surveillance capacity
Residential neighborhood features associated with objectively measured walking near home
Assessing Google Street View Image Availability in Latin American Cities
Virtual audits using Google Street View are an increasingly popular method of assessing neighborhood environments for health and urban planning research. However, the validity of these studies may be threatened by issues of image availability, image age, and variance of image age, particularly in the Global South. This study identifies patterns of Street View image availability, image age, and image age variance across cities in Latin America and…
Using Universal Kriging to Improve Neighborhood Physical Disorder Measurement
Ordinary kriging, a spatial interpolation technique, is commonly used in social sciences to estimate neighborhood attributes such as physical disorder. Universal kriging, developed and used in physical sciences, extends ordinary kriging by supplementing the spatial model with additional covariates. We measured physical disorder on 1,826 sampled block faces across four U.S. cities (New York, Philadelphia, Detroit, and San Jose) using Google Street…
The geographic distribution of retail tobacco outlets in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Not quite a block party
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed mobility inequities within cities. In response, cities are rapidly implementing street reallocation initiatives. These interventions provide space for walking and cycling, however, other mobility needs (e.g., essential workers, deliveries) may be impeded by these reallocation decisions. Informed by mobility justice frameworks, we examined socio-spatial differences in access to street reallocations in Seattle, Was…
Pathways between objective and perceived neighborhood factors among Black breast cancer survivors
Objective neighborhood disorder might be related to perceived disorder directly and indirectly through perceptions of neighborhood social cohesion
Exposure to unhealthy product advertising
This study aimed to understand socio-spatial inequalities in the placement of unhealthy commodity advertisements at transportation stops within the Central Belt of Scotland and to measure advertisement exposure using children's individual-level mobility data. We found that children who resided within more deprived areas had greater contact with the transport network and also greater exposure to unhealthy food and drink product advertising, compar…
Google street view image availability in the Bronx and San Diego, 2007–2020
Walkability measures to predict the likelihood of walking in a place
Urban Transport and Accessibility (26 works) · Medicine (24 works) · Geography (23 works) · Environmental health (18 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (15 works) · Computer Science (14 works) · Engineering (14 works) · Mathematics (12 works) · Population (12 works) · Traffic and Road Safety (12 works)