Deborah Wallace
Biographic Data
| ID | 3583087 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deborah Wallace |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deborah |
| FAMILY NAME | Wallace |
| SIGNATURE | WALLACE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Consumers Union |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9547-3975 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 194 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Parental involvement and engagement during Covid ‐19 lockdowns: School staff and parents' reflections about children's learning at home
Valuing parental engagement, as part of home–school collaboration, can benefit children's learning. This article focuses on parents and school‐based staff's ( N = 120) experiences of children's learning occurring at home during the COVID‐19 lockdowns (2020–2021), both school‐mandated and other learning activities. It examines qualitative responses from a survey of 11 educational settings partnered with a university‐based teacher training institut…
Covid-19 in New York City: An Ecology of Race and Class Oppression
Covid-19 in New York City: An Ecology of Race and Class Oppression
KevinFitzpatrick and MarkLaGory (2011): Unhealthy Cities: Poverty, Race, and Place in America. New York: Routledge
Discriminatory Mass De-housing and Low-Weight Births: Scales of Geography, Time, and Level
Urban Systems during Disasters: Factors for Resilience
Urban neighborhoods form the basic functional unit of municipalities. Socioeconomically, they consist of social networks and interlocking layers of social networks. Old, stable neighborhoods are blessed with large social networks and dense interlocking layers. Both social control and social support depend on these complex structures of tight and loose ties. Public health and public order depend on these structures. They are the basis of resilienc…
A failure of resilience: Estimating response of New York City's public health ecosystem to sudden disaster
Community stress, demoralization, and body mass index: Evidence for Social Signal Transduction
Life and Death in Upper Manhattan and the Bronx: Toward an Evolutionary Perspective on Catastrophic Social Change
During the 1970s, poor neighborhoods of New York City lost significant proportions of housing and associated community structure to a policy-driven process of contagious fire and building abandonment. The south Bronx was among the most heavily damaged areas. Here we analyze and compare the interrelationships between socioeconomic factors, housing, demographics, and two health outcomes (low-weight birth rate and homicide rate) in the southwest Bro…
Emerging Infections and Nested Martingales: The Entrainment of Affluent Populations into the Disease Ecology of Marginalization
The observed diffusion of tuberculosis and AIDS from marginalized, inner-city populations to surrounding suburban counties, and of AIDS from larger to smaller metropolitan regions, constitutes an empirical 'failure of containment' at odds with the culturally defined ideology of the US system of de facto apartheid. Such spread, occurring along the commuting field defined by the daily journey to work, and along national travel routes connecting met…
Deindustrialization, Inner-City Decay, and the Hierarchical Diffusion of Aids in the USA: How Neoliberal and Cold War Policies Magnified the Ecological Niche for Emerging Infections and Created a Nati…
AIDS is well known to have diffused hierarchically among US metropolitan regions, from the larger to the smaller, along national travel routes. Here we relate that diffusion to economic and social policy, by using approaches from population and community ecology and quantitative geography. We find that patterns of deindustrialization driven by cold war policies have interacted synergistically with the 'planned shrinkage' hollowing-out of poor min…
Scales of geography, time, and population: The study of violence as a public health problem
OBJECTIVES: In this study, data on violent deaths in the Bronx, New York City, from the 1970, 1980, and 1990 censuses were analyzed. METHODS: The incidence and areal density of intentional deaths were mapped by health area. Simple and stepwise regressions between violent death measures and other factors were performed. RESULTS: The incidence of deaths at levels of those in the highest 1970 quintile spread so that by 1990 only 2 areas saw incidenc…
The hierarchical diffusion of Aids and violent crime among U.S. metropolitan regions: Inner-city decay, stochastic resonance and reversal of the mortality transition
Census data on migration within and between the 25 largest U.S. metropolitan areas-containing more than 113 million people-permit construction of a probability-of-contact matrix corresponding to a particular Markov process dominated by the nation's largest cities, a hierarchical structure. Regression models based on vectors associated with that process find the large-scale diffusion of AIDS in the U.S.A. depends strongly on national patterns of c…
The Destruction of US Minority Urban Communities and the Resurgence of Tuberculosis: Ecosystem Dynamics of the White Plague in the Dedeveloping World
Techniques from population and community ecology and from conservation biology are applied to the growing tuberculosis (TB) epidemic now focused in many US urban minority communities. Modification of a simple spatial model of TB to include the effects of recurring social, political, economic, and other catastrophes shows that a sudden increase in the rate of such factors can markedly and synergistically lower the threshold area density of suscept…
Resilience and Persistence of the Synergism of Plagues: Stochastic Resonance and the Ecology of Disease, Disorder and Disinvestment in US Urban Neighborhoods
We adapt recent perspectives on the resilience of ecosystems in a stochastic environment to analysis of the effects of public policies of 'planned shrinkage' on stressed US urban minority neighborhoods. The 'synergism of plagues'-a self-reinforcing, interactive mix of contagious urban decay and deterioration in both public health and public order-emerges in the course of a sudden 'phase transition' from community-spanning geographically focused s…
Aids, Tuberculosis, Violent Crime, and Low Birthweight in Eight US Metropolitan Areas: Public Policy, Stochastic Resonance, and the Regional Diffusion of Inner-City Markers
In previous papers of this series we have shown how public policies of 'planned shrinkage' triggered contagious urban decay and massive destruction of low-income housing within poor minority communities of New York City. The resulting social disintegration exacerbated epidemics of infectious disease, including AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) and TB (tuberculosis), and such behavioral pathologies as substance abuse and violence. We exten…
Aids: Crisis in professional ethics
U.S. Apartheid and the spread of Aids to the suburbs: A multi-city analysis of the political economy of spatial epidemic threshold
We compare mechanisms of AIDS diffusion at the county level from five U.S. central city epicenters into their associated metropolitan regions. Four of the five show an expanding 'hollowed out' center of physically and socially devastated, politically and economically abandoned high density minority neighborhoods, surrounded by rings of relatively affluent majority suburban populations. From these centers AIDS diffuses into the suburbs as a single…
Smaller increases in life expectancy for blacks and whites between the 1970s and 1980s
Smaller increases in life expectancy for blacks and whites between the 1970s and 1980s. D WallaceCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.85.6.875 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Lady beetles and public health research: Geographic and population scales
Lady beetles and public health research: geographic and population scales. D WallaceCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.85.5.735 Published Online: October 07, 2011
The Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Aids and TB in the New York Metropolitan Region from a Sociogeographic Perspective: Understanding the Linkages of Central City and Suburbs
Empirical and theoretical analyses based on observed patterns of incidence of AIDS and tuberculosis, on rates of poverty, and on statistics describing a 'Markov infection' driven by the 'commuting field' around Manhattan, strongly suggest that urban and suburban epicenters within a twenty-four-county metropolitan region, covering eighteen million people and more than 7600 square miles, may be significantly and increasingly linked to outlying affl…
The resurgence of tuberculosis in New York City: A mixed hierarchically and spatially diffused epidemic
For New York City from 1978 to 1990, plotting the 3-year running averages of citywide new tuberculosis cases against the middle year yielded an S-shaped curve, with the inflection point at 1983 between early slow and late rapid rise. The inflection in the S curve appears to be associated with hierarchical establishment of secondary epicenters, and the phase of rapid rise in new cases seems to be associated with spatial diffusion from both the pri…
Will Aids be contained within U.S. minority urban populations
Inner-City Disease and the Public Health of the Suburbs: The Sociogeographic Dispersion of Point-Source Infection
The political abandonment of impoverished inner-city minority populations has caused the virtual physical implosion of many US urban neighborhoods, ranging from the New York City's South Bronx to Los Angeles' South Central. Resulting extreme levels of social disintegration and community disruption, in turn, have greatly intensified a nexus of interrelated pathological behaviors and conditions leading to more rapid spread of human immunodeficiency…
Roots of increased health care inequality in New York
U.S. Apartheid and the spread of Aids to the suburbs: A multi-city analysis of the political economy of spatial epidemic threshold
We compare mechanisms of AIDS diffusion at the county level from five U.S. central city epicenters into their associated metropolitan regions. Four of the five show an expanding 'hollowed out' center of physically and socially devastated, politically and economically abandoned high density minority neighborhoods, surrounded by rings of relatively affluent majority suburban populations. From these centers AIDS diffuses into the suburbs as a single…
Roots of increased health care inequality in New York
Will Aids be contained within U.S. minority urban populations
The hierarchical diffusion of Aids and violent crime among U.S. metropolitan regions: Inner-city decay, stochastic resonance and reversal of the mortality transition
Census data on migration within and between the 25 largest U.S. metropolitan areas-containing more than 113 million people-permit construction of a probability-of-contact matrix corresponding to a particular Markov process dominated by the nation's largest cities, a hierarchical structure. Regression models based on vectors associated with that process find the large-scale diffusion of AIDS in the U.S.A. depends strongly on national patterns of c…
The Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Aids and TB in the New York Metropolitan Region from a Sociogeographic Perspective: Understanding the Linkages of Central City and Suburbs
Empirical and theoretical analyses based on observed patterns of incidence of AIDS and tuberculosis, on rates of poverty, and on statistics describing a 'Markov infection' driven by the 'commuting field' around Manhattan, strongly suggest that urban and suburban epicenters within a twenty-four-county metropolitan region, covering eighteen million people and more than 7600 square miles, may be significantly and increasingly linked to outlying affl…
Structural Fire as an Urban Parasite: Population Density Dependence of Structural Fire in New York City, and its Implications
In further exploration of structural fire as an urban parasite, the influence of areal population density and housing overcrowding on incidence and average size of structural fires is analyzed. Because the more people per square mile and per room the greater the incidence and size of the structural fires, the destruction of housing by fire and fire-related building abandonment creates fertile ground for even greater fire damage due to the crowdin…
Aids, Tuberculosis, Violent Crime, and Low Birthweight in Eight US Metropolitan Areas: Public Policy, Stochastic Resonance, and the Regional Diffusion of Inner-City Markers
In previous papers of this series we have shown how public policies of 'planned shrinkage' triggered contagious urban decay and massive destruction of low-income housing within poor minority communities of New York City. The resulting social disintegration exacerbated epidemics of infectious disease, including AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) and TB (tuberculosis), and such behavioral pathologies as substance abuse and violence. We exten…
Inner-City Disease and the Public Health of the Suburbs: The Sociogeographic Dispersion of Point-Source Infection
The political abandonment of impoverished inner-city minority populations has caused the virtual physical implosion of many US urban neighborhoods, ranging from the New York City's South Bronx to Los Angeles' South Central. Resulting extreme levels of social disintegration and community disruption, in turn, have greatly intensified a nexus of interrelated pathological behaviors and conditions leading to more rapid spread of human immunodeficiency…
Urban Fire as an Unstabilized Parasite: The 1976-1978 Outbreak in Bushwick, Brooklyn
Fire service cuts recommended by the Rand Corporation, and largely implemented before New York City's 'fiscal crisis', are known to have initiated a geographically spreading, temporally recurrent fire epidemic. Examination of a resulting fire outbreak in Brooklyn's Bushwick section shows the epidemic to have temporal and spatial 'patchiness' characteristics of a parasite infestation, as well as an apparent composite 'life cycle', but without the …
Urban Systems during Disasters: Factors for Resilience
Urban neighborhoods form the basic functional unit of municipalities. Socioeconomically, they consist of social networks and interlocking layers of social networks. Old, stable neighborhoods are blessed with large social networks and dense interlocking layers. Both social control and social support depend on these complex structures of tight and loose ties. Public health and public order depend on these structures. They are the basis of resilienc…
Deindustrialization, Inner-City Decay, and the Hierarchical Diffusion of Aids in the USA: How Neoliberal and Cold War Policies Magnified the Ecological Niche for Emerging Infections and Created a Nati…
AIDS is well known to have diffused hierarchically among US metropolitan regions, from the larger to the smaller, along national travel routes. Here we relate that diffusion to economic and social policy, by using approaches from population and community ecology and quantitative geography. We find that patterns of deindustrialization driven by cold war policies have interacted synergistically with the 'planned shrinkage' hollowing-out of poor min…
The resurgence of tuberculosis in New York City: A mixed hierarchically and spatially diffused epidemic
For New York City from 1978 to 1990, plotting the 3-year running averages of citywide new tuberculosis cases against the middle year yielded an S-shaped curve, with the inflection point at 1983 between early slow and late rapid rise. The inflection in the S curve appears to be associated with hierarchical establishment of secondary epicenters, and the phase of rapid rise in new cases seems to be associated with spatial diffusion from both the pri…
Community stress, demoralization, and body mass index: Evidence for Social Signal Transduction
Resilience and Persistence of the Synergism of Plagues: Stochastic Resonance and the Ecology of Disease, Disorder and Disinvestment in US Urban Neighborhoods
We adapt recent perspectives on the resilience of ecosystems in a stochastic environment to analysis of the effects of public policies of 'planned shrinkage' on stressed US urban minority neighborhoods. The 'synergism of plagues'-a self-reinforcing, interactive mix of contagious urban decay and deterioration in both public health and public order-emerges in the course of a sudden 'phase transition' from community-spanning geographically focused s…
Life and Death in Upper Manhattan and the Bronx: Toward an Evolutionary Perspective on Catastrophic Social Change
During the 1970s, poor neighborhoods of New York City lost significant proportions of housing and associated community structure to a policy-driven process of contagious fire and building abandonment. The south Bronx was among the most heavily damaged areas. Here we analyze and compare the interrelationships between socioeconomic factors, housing, demographics, and two health outcomes (low-weight birth rate and homicide rate) in the southwest Bro…
Scales of geography, time, and population: The study of violence as a public health problem
OBJECTIVES: In this study, data on violent deaths in the Bronx, New York City, from the 1970, 1980, and 1990 censuses were analyzed. METHODS: The incidence and areal density of intentional deaths were mapped by health area. Simple and stepwise regressions between violent death measures and other factors were performed. RESULTS: The incidence of deaths at levels of those in the highest 1970 quintile spread so that by 1990 only 2 areas saw incidenc…
Lady beetles and public health research: Geographic and population scales
Lady beetles and public health research: geographic and population scales. D WallaceCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.85.5.735 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Discriminatory Mass De-housing and Low-Weight Births: Scales of Geography, Time, and Level
A failure of resilience: Estimating response of New York City's public health ecosystem to sudden disaster
The Destruction of US Minority Urban Communities and the Resurgence of Tuberculosis: Ecosystem Dynamics of the White Plague in the Dedeveloping World
Techniques from population and community ecology and from conservation biology are applied to the growing tuberculosis (TB) epidemic now focused in many US urban minority communities. Modification of a simple spatial model of TB to include the effects of recurring social, political, economic, and other catastrophes shows that a sudden increase in the rate of such factors can markedly and synergistically lower the threshold area density of suscept…
KevinFitzpatrick and MarkLaGory (2011): Unhealthy Cities: Poverty, Race, and Place in America. New York: Routledge
Emerging Infections and Nested Martingales: The Entrainment of Affluent Populations into the Disease Ecology of Marginalization
The observed diffusion of tuberculosis and AIDS from marginalized, inner-city populations to surrounding suburban counties, and of AIDS from larger to smaller metropolitan regions, constitutes an empirical 'failure of containment' at odds with the culturally defined ideology of the US system of de facto apartheid. Such spread, occurring along the commuting field defined by the daily journey to work, and along national travel routes connecting met…
Urban Fire as an Unstabilized Parasite: The 1976-1978 Outbreak in Bushwick, Brooklyn
Fire service cuts recommended by the Rand Corporation, and largely implemented before New York City's 'fiscal crisis', are known to have initiated a geographically spreading, temporally recurrent fire epidemic. Examination of a resulting fire outbreak in Brooklyn's Bushwick section shows the epidemic to have temporal and spatial 'patchiness' characteristics of a parasite infestation, as well as an apparent composite 'life cycle', but without the …
Structural Fire as an Urban Parasite: Population Density Dependence of Structural Fire in New York City, and its Implications
In further exploration of structural fire as an urban parasite, the influence of areal population density and housing overcrowding on incidence and average size of structural fires is analyzed. Because the more people per square mile and per room the greater the incidence and size of the structural fires, the destruction of housing by fire and fire-related building abandonment creates fertile ground for even greater fire damage due to the crowdin…
Roots of increased health care inequality in New York
Inner-City Disease and the Public Health of the Suburbs: The Sociogeographic Dispersion of Point-Source Infection
The political abandonment of impoverished inner-city minority populations has caused the virtual physical implosion of many US urban neighborhoods, ranging from the New York City's South Bronx to Los Angeles' South Central. Resulting extreme levels of social disintegration and community disruption, in turn, have greatly intensified a nexus of interrelated pathological behaviors and conditions leading to more rapid spread of human immunodeficiency…
The resurgence of tuberculosis in New York City: A mixed hierarchically and spatially diffused epidemic
For New York City from 1978 to 1990, plotting the 3-year running averages of citywide new tuberculosis cases against the middle year yielded an S-shaped curve, with the inflection point at 1983 between early slow and late rapid rise. The inflection in the S curve appears to be associated with hierarchical establishment of secondary epicenters, and the phase of rapid rise in new cases seems to be associated with spatial diffusion from both the pri…
Will Aids be contained within U.S. minority urban populations
U.S. Apartheid and the spread of Aids to the suburbs: A multi-city analysis of the political economy of spatial epidemic threshold
We compare mechanisms of AIDS diffusion at the county level from five U.S. central city epicenters into their associated metropolitan regions. Four of the five show an expanding 'hollowed out' center of physically and socially devastated, politically and economically abandoned high density minority neighborhoods, surrounded by rings of relatively affluent majority suburban populations. From these centers AIDS diffuses into the suburbs as a single…
Smaller increases in life expectancy for blacks and whites between the 1970s and 1980s
Smaller increases in life expectancy for blacks and whites between the 1970s and 1980s. D WallaceCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.85.6.875 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Lady beetles and public health research: Geographic and population scales
Lady beetles and public health research: geographic and population scales. D WallaceCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.85.5.735 Published Online: October 07, 2011
The Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Aids and TB in the New York Metropolitan Region from a Sociogeographic Perspective: Understanding the Linkages of Central City and Suburbs
Empirical and theoretical analyses based on observed patterns of incidence of AIDS and tuberculosis, on rates of poverty, and on statistics describing a 'Markov infection' driven by the 'commuting field' around Manhattan, strongly suggest that urban and suburban epicenters within a twenty-four-county metropolitan region, covering eighteen million people and more than 7600 square miles, may be significantly and increasingly linked to outlying affl…
Aids: Crisis in professional ethics
The hierarchical diffusion of Aids and violent crime among U.S. metropolitan regions: Inner-city decay, stochastic resonance and reversal of the mortality transition
Census data on migration within and between the 25 largest U.S. metropolitan areas-containing more than 113 million people-permit construction of a probability-of-contact matrix corresponding to a particular Markov process dominated by the nation's largest cities, a hierarchical structure. Regression models based on vectors associated with that process find the large-scale diffusion of AIDS in the U.S.A. depends strongly on national patterns of c…
The Destruction of US Minority Urban Communities and the Resurgence of Tuberculosis: Ecosystem Dynamics of the White Plague in the Dedeveloping World
Techniques from population and community ecology and from conservation biology are applied to the growing tuberculosis (TB) epidemic now focused in many US urban minority communities. Modification of a simple spatial model of TB to include the effects of recurring social, political, economic, and other catastrophes shows that a sudden increase in the rate of such factors can markedly and synergistically lower the threshold area density of suscept…
Resilience and Persistence of the Synergism of Plagues: Stochastic Resonance and the Ecology of Disease, Disorder and Disinvestment in US Urban Neighborhoods
We adapt recent perspectives on the resilience of ecosystems in a stochastic environment to analysis of the effects of public policies of 'planned shrinkage' on stressed US urban minority neighborhoods. The 'synergism of plagues'-a self-reinforcing, interactive mix of contagious urban decay and deterioration in both public health and public order-emerges in the course of a sudden 'phase transition' from community-spanning geographically focused s…
Aids, Tuberculosis, Violent Crime, and Low Birthweight in Eight US Metropolitan Areas: Public Policy, Stochastic Resonance, and the Regional Diffusion of Inner-City Markers
In previous papers of this series we have shown how public policies of 'planned shrinkage' triggered contagious urban decay and massive destruction of low-income housing within poor minority communities of New York City. The resulting social disintegration exacerbated epidemics of infectious disease, including AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) and TB (tuberculosis), and such behavioral pathologies as substance abuse and violence. We exten…
Scales of geography, time, and population: The study of violence as a public health problem
OBJECTIVES: In this study, data on violent deaths in the Bronx, New York City, from the 1970, 1980, and 1990 censuses were analyzed. METHODS: The incidence and areal density of intentional deaths were mapped by health area. Simple and stepwise regressions between violent death measures and other factors were performed. RESULTS: The incidence of deaths at levels of those in the highest 1970 quintile spread so that by 1990 only 2 areas saw incidenc…
Emerging Infections and Nested Martingales: The Entrainment of Affluent Populations into the Disease Ecology of Marginalization
The observed diffusion of tuberculosis and AIDS from marginalized, inner-city populations to surrounding suburban counties, and of AIDS from larger to smaller metropolitan regions, constitutes an empirical 'failure of containment' at odds with the culturally defined ideology of the US system of de facto apartheid. Such spread, occurring along the commuting field defined by the daily journey to work, and along national travel routes connecting met…
Deindustrialization, Inner-City Decay, and the Hierarchical Diffusion of Aids in the USA: How Neoliberal and Cold War Policies Magnified the Ecological Niche for Emerging Infections and Created a Nati…
AIDS is well known to have diffused hierarchically among US metropolitan regions, from the larger to the smaller, along national travel routes. Here we relate that diffusion to economic and social policy, by using approaches from population and community ecology and quantitative geography. We find that patterns of deindustrialization driven by cold war policies have interacted synergistically with the 'planned shrinkage' hollowing-out of poor min…
Life and Death in Upper Manhattan and the Bronx: Toward an Evolutionary Perspective on Catastrophic Social Change
During the 1970s, poor neighborhoods of New York City lost significant proportions of housing and associated community structure to a policy-driven process of contagious fire and building abandonment. The south Bronx was among the most heavily damaged areas. Here we analyze and compare the interrelationships between socioeconomic factors, housing, demographics, and two health outcomes (low-weight birth rate and homicide rate) in the southwest Bro…
Community stress, demoralization, and body mass index: Evidence for Social Signal Transduction
A failure of resilience: Estimating response of New York City's public health ecosystem to sudden disaster
Urban Systems during Disasters: Factors for Resilience
Urban neighborhoods form the basic functional unit of municipalities. Socioeconomically, they consist of social networks and interlocking layers of social networks. Old, stable neighborhoods are blessed with large social networks and dense interlocking layers. Both social control and social support depend on these complex structures of tight and loose ties. Public health and public order depend on these structures. They are the basis of resilienc…
Discriminatory Mass De-housing and Low-Weight Births: Scales of Geography, Time, and Level
KevinFitzpatrick and MarkLaGory (2011): Unhealthy Cities: Poverty, Race, and Place in America. New York: Routledge
Covid-19 in New York City: An Ecology of Race and Class Oppression
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