Sara Mclafferty
Biographic Data
| ID | 365410 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sara Mclafferty |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sara |
| FAMILY NAME | Mclafferty |
| SIGNATURE | MCLAFFERTY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Geography and Geographic Information Science University of Illinois Urbana Illinois USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 144 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Making Space in Geographical Analysis
In this commentary we reflect on the potential and power of geographical analysis, as a set of methods, theoretical approaches, and perspectives, to increase our understanding of how space and place matter for all . We emphasize key aspects of the field, including accessibility, urban change, and spatial interaction and behavior, providing a high‐level research agenda that indicates a variety of gaps and routes for future research that will not o…
Regionalization and Recent Immigrants’ Access to Jobs: An Analysis of Commuting in Canadian Metropolitan Areas
Winter Malaria, Urban Environmental Mismanagement and Climate Change in Khartoum City, Sudan
This study investigates malaria incidence during the hot-wet summer (June to September) and cool-dry winter (January to March) seasons in Khartoum, Sudan. Using data on malaria cases, LandScan gridded population data, and temperature data from the Global Historical Climatology Network, malaria incidence in Khartoum city in 2015 was 1,629.2 per 100,000 population in cool-dry winter months compared to 924.7 in hot-wet summer months, with temperatur…
Gender, Immigration and Commuting in Metropolitan Canada
Immigrant workers often commute by transit more than other workers. Although immigrants' reliance on transit is often attributed to the same factors as women's reliance on transit: low incomes, limited access to cars, and a tendency to work close to home, gender differences are discussed rarely in analyses of immigrant commuting. Using 2016 Census of Canada microdata, we examine the use of four commute modes: driving, transit, active commuting in…
Spatial Context
A rapidly expanding body of research investigates how social and environmental processes are shaped by the local settings in which they occur. These local settings – spatial contexts – are increasingly studied and modeled using geospatial data and methods. This entry summarizes opportunities and challenges for spatial contextual research. It reviews how spatial contexts are modeled, highlighting advances such as modeling of contexts in space and …
Green Streets: Urban Green and Birth Outcomes
Recent scholarship points to a protective association between green space and birth outcomes as well a positive relationship between blue space and wellbeing. We add to this body of literature by exploring the relationship between expectant mothers' exposure to green and blue spaces and adverse birth outcomes in New York City. The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), the NYC Street Tree Census, and access to major green spaces served as…
Revisiting Gender, Race, and Commuting in New York
In the 1990s, many women commuted shorter distances and less time than men, and research underscored the pernicious effects of racial and ethnic segregation and access to transportation on minority women's commuting. Since then, growing income inequality and the bifurcation of employment between well-paid and secure jobs and a growing number of insecure and poorly paid jobs have been accompanied by the concentration of jobs at central and suburba…
Spatial Mismatch
Ethnic Density and Maternal and Infant Health Inequalities: Bangladeshi Immigrant Women in New York City in the 1990s
How do the social and material characteristics of residential contexts in the host country affect immigrant maternal and infant health? We examine this question through the lens of the ethnic density hypothesis, a hypothesis that posits beneficial effects on immigrant health of living in areas of high ethnic density; that is, among a socially and linguistically similar population. We analyze the association between infant low birth weight and eth…
Farmer Attitudes Toward Production of Perennial Energy Grasses in East Central Illinois: Implications for Community-Based Decision Making
Throughout the Midwestern United States, land owners and managers, mainly farmers, are increasingly considering the possibility of transforming industrial agricultural landscapes that currently are used almost strictly for food production to landscapes that include renewable energy production. Because most land in this region is privately owned and independently farmed, transformation of the landscape will be the product of myriad decisions by in…
A Companion to Health and Medical Geography
This Companion provides a comprehensive account of health and medical geography and approaches the major themes and key topics from a variety of angles. Offers a unique breadth of topics relating to both health and medical geography Includes contributions from a range of scholars from rising stars to established, internationally renowned authors Provides an up-to-date review of the state of the sub-discipline Thematically organized sections offer…
Companion to Health and Medical Geography
Late-Stage Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Health Care Access in Illinois∗
The variations of breast cancer mortality rates from place to place reflect both underlying differences in breast cancer prevalence and differences in diagnosis and treatment that affect the risk of death. This article examines the role of access to health care in explaining the variation of late-stage diagnosis of breast cancer. We use cancer registry data for the state of Illinois by zip code to investigate spatial variation in late diagnosis. …
Women and GIS: Geospatial Technologies and Feminist Geographies
This article explores the emerging intersections between feminism and GIS in relation to changes in GIS technologies and the impacts of such technologies on women's lives. I argue that the past decade has seen an increasing “feminization” of GIS that involves innovations in GIS technologies and research practices, growing critical self-awareness among GIS researchers, and the development of feminist visualization as a research tool. At the same t…
Immigration and Geographic Access to Prenatal Clinics in Brooklyn, NY: A Geographic Information Systems Analysis
We compared levels of geographic access to prenatal clinics in Brooklyn, NY, between immigrant and US-born mothers and among immigrant groups by country of birth. We used birth data to characterize the spatial distribution of mothers and kernel estimation to measure clinic density within a 2-mile radius of each mother. Results showed that geographic access to clinics differs substantially by country of birth. Certain groups (e.g., Pakistani, Bang…
The Socialization of GIS
The ‘socialization’ of GIS describes the increased use of GIS to manage and disseminate data about people and their characteristics, interactions, and everyday concerns. I briefly summarize the technical, political, and institutional issues raised by the increasing socialization of GIS, including concerns about privacy and confidentiality, data dissemination and analysis, population diversity, and social power and influence. I discuss how the art…
Restructuring and women's reproductive health: Implications for low birthweight in New York city
Job Accessibility and the Employment and School Enrollment of Teenagers
Ihlanfeldt presents data that strongly support the mismatch hypothesis for the high unemployment rate of disadvantaged teens. This theory, which the author thoroughly outlines in this work, asserts that the suburbanization of low-skill jobs and continued housing market segregation have reduced the job opportunities of inner-city dwelling minorities. This book extends Ihlanfeldt's earlier work on spatial mismatch by incorporating school enrollment…
Income Disparities and Employment and Occupational Changes in New York∗
PRESTON V. And MCLAFFERTY S. (1993) Income disparities and employment and occupational changes in New York, Reg. Studies 27, 223–235. To determine how deindustrialization and the growth of service employment have affected geographic disparities in income within urban areas, we examined empirically the spatial distribution of household income in the New York CMSA between 1960 and 1980 and the associations between income growth and employment and o…
Emptying beds: The work of an emergency psychiatric unit
Spatial Mismatch and Labor Market Segmentation for African-American and Latina Women
Sara McLafferty, Valerie Preston, Spatial Mismatch and Labor Market Segmentation for African-American and Latina Women, Economic Geography, Vol. 68, No. 4, Local Labor Markets (Oct., 1992), pp. 406-431
Gender, Race, and Commuting Among Service Sector Workers∗
The generality that women work closer to home and have shorter commuting times than men needs to be assessed for racial groups. Statistical analysis of commuting times for a large sample of service workers in the New York metropolitan area shows that black and hispanic women commute as far as their male counterparts and their commuting times far exceed those of white men and women. Workplace factors, such as income, occupation, and job accessibil…
Patient outcomes and regional planning of coronary care services: A location-allocation approach
Predicting the effect of hospital closure on hospital utilization patterns
Urban Hospital Location
Spatial Mismatch and Labor Market Segmentation for African-American and Latina Women
Sara McLafferty, Valerie Preston, Spatial Mismatch and Labor Market Segmentation for African-American and Latina Women, Economic Geography, Vol. 68, No. 4, Local Labor Markets (Oct., 1992), pp. 406-431
Late-Stage Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Health Care Access in Illinois∗
The variations of breast cancer mortality rates from place to place reflect both underlying differences in breast cancer prevalence and differences in diagnosis and treatment that affect the risk of death. This article examines the role of access to health care in explaining the variation of late-stage diagnosis of breast cancer. We use cancer registry data for the state of Illinois by zip code to investigate spatial variation in late diagnosis. …
Neighborhood characteristics and hospital closures
Urban Structure and Geographical Access to Public Services
The spatial structure of urban areas limits the geographical accessibility of public services to some income groups. Simulation analyses show that this limiting effect—the spatial constraint—varies among study areas depending on the relative locations and densities of income groups. In typical Western cities, however, the spatial constraint implies that the bulk of possible service locations are physically more accessible to low-than to high-inco…
Ethnic Density and Maternal and Infant Health Inequalities: Bangladeshi Immigrant Women in New York City in the 1990s
How do the social and material characteristics of residential contexts in the host country affect immigrant maternal and infant health? We examine this question through the lens of the ethnic density hypothesis, a hypothesis that posits beneficial effects on immigrant health of living in areas of high ethnic density; that is, among a socially and linguistically similar population. We analyze the association between infant low birth weight and eth…
Restructuring and women's reproductive health: Implications for low birthweight in New York city
Emptying beds: The work of an emergency psychiatric unit
Income Disparities and Employment and Occupational Changes in New York∗
PRESTON V. And MCLAFFERTY S. (1993) Income disparities and employment and occupational changes in New York, Reg. Studies 27, 223–235. To determine how deindustrialization and the growth of service employment have affected geographic disparities in income within urban areas, we examined empirically the spatial distribution of household income in the New York CMSA between 1960 and 1980 and the associations between income growth and employment and o…
Regionalization and Recent Immigrants’ Access to Jobs: An Analysis of Commuting in Canadian Metropolitan Areas
Patient outcomes and regional planning of coronary care services: A location-allocation approach
Predicting the effect of hospital closure on hospital utilization patterns
Farmer Attitudes Toward Production of Perennial Energy Grasses in East Central Illinois: Implications for Community-Based Decision Making
Throughout the Midwestern United States, land owners and managers, mainly farmers, are increasingly considering the possibility of transforming industrial agricultural landscapes that currently are used almost strictly for food production to landscapes that include renewable energy production. Because most land in this region is privately owned and independently farmed, transformation of the landscape will be the product of myriad decisions by in…
Immigration and Geographic Access to Prenatal Clinics in Brooklyn, NY: A Geographic Information Systems Analysis
We compared levels of geographic access to prenatal clinics in Brooklyn, NY, between immigrant and US-born mothers and among immigrant groups by country of birth. We used birth data to characterize the spatial distribution of mothers and kernel estimation to measure clinic density within a 2-mile radius of each mother. Results showed that geographic access to clinics differs substantially by country of birth. Certain groups (e.g., Pakistani, Bang…
Urban Hospital Location
Revisiting Gender, Race, and Commuting in New York
In the 1990s, many women commuted shorter distances and less time than men, and research underscored the pernicious effects of racial and ethnic segregation and access to transportation on minority women's commuting. Since then, growing income inequality and the bifurcation of employment between well-paid and secure jobs and a growing number of insecure and poorly paid jobs have been accompanied by the concentration of jobs at central and suburba…
Urban Structure and Geographical Access to Public Services
The spatial structure of urban areas limits the geographical accessibility of public services to some income groups. Simulation analyses show that this limiting effect—the spatial constraint—varies among study areas depending on the relative locations and densities of income groups. In typical Western cities, however, the spatial constraint implies that the bulk of possible service locations are physically more accessible to low-than to high-inco…
Neighborhood characteristics and hospital closures
Remaking the City: Social Science Perspectives on Urban Design
Urban Hospital Location
Predicting the effect of hospital closure on hospital utilization patterns
Patient outcomes and regional planning of coronary care services: A location-allocation approach
Gender, Race, and Commuting Among Service Sector Workers∗
The generality that women work closer to home and have shorter commuting times than men needs to be assessed for racial groups. Statistical analysis of commuting times for a large sample of service workers in the New York metropolitan area shows that black and hispanic women commute as far as their male counterparts and their commuting times far exceed those of white men and women. Workplace factors, such as income, occupation, and job accessibil…
Spatial Mismatch and Labor Market Segmentation for African-American and Latina Women
Sara McLafferty, Valerie Preston, Spatial Mismatch and Labor Market Segmentation for African-American and Latina Women, Economic Geography, Vol. 68, No. 4, Local Labor Markets (Oct., 1992), pp. 406-431
Income Disparities and Employment and Occupational Changes in New York∗
PRESTON V. And MCLAFFERTY S. (1993) Income disparities and employment and occupational changes in New York, Reg. Studies 27, 223–235. To determine how deindustrialization and the growth of service employment have affected geographic disparities in income within urban areas, we examined empirically the spatial distribution of household income in the New York CMSA between 1960 and 1980 and the associations between income growth and employment and o…
Emptying beds: The work of an emergency psychiatric unit
Job Accessibility and the Employment and School Enrollment of Teenagers
Ihlanfeldt presents data that strongly support the mismatch hypothesis for the high unemployment rate of disadvantaged teens. This theory, which the author thoroughly outlines in this work, asserts that the suburbanization of low-skill jobs and continued housing market segregation have reduced the job opportunities of inner-city dwelling minorities. This book extends Ihlanfeldt's earlier work on spatial mismatch by incorporating school enrollment…
Restructuring and women's reproductive health: Implications for low birthweight in New York city
The Socialization of GIS
The ‘socialization’ of GIS describes the increased use of GIS to manage and disseminate data about people and their characteristics, interactions, and everyday concerns. I briefly summarize the technical, political, and institutional issues raised by the increasing socialization of GIS, including concerns about privacy and confidentiality, data dissemination and analysis, population diversity, and social power and influence. I discuss how the art…
Women and GIS: Geospatial Technologies and Feminist Geographies
This article explores the emerging intersections between feminism and GIS in relation to changes in GIS technologies and the impacts of such technologies on women's lives. I argue that the past decade has seen an increasing “feminization” of GIS that involves innovations in GIS technologies and research practices, growing critical self-awareness among GIS researchers, and the development of feminist visualization as a research tool. At the same t…
Immigration and Geographic Access to Prenatal Clinics in Brooklyn, NY: A Geographic Information Systems Analysis
We compared levels of geographic access to prenatal clinics in Brooklyn, NY, between immigrant and US-born mothers and among immigrant groups by country of birth. We used birth data to characterize the spatial distribution of mothers and kernel estimation to measure clinic density within a 2-mile radius of each mother. Results showed that geographic access to clinics differs substantially by country of birth. Certain groups (e.g., Pakistani, Bang…
Late-Stage Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Health Care Access in Illinois∗
The variations of breast cancer mortality rates from place to place reflect both underlying differences in breast cancer prevalence and differences in diagnosis and treatment that affect the risk of death. This article examines the role of access to health care in explaining the variation of late-stage diagnosis of breast cancer. We use cancer registry data for the state of Illinois by zip code to investigate spatial variation in late diagnosis. …
A Companion to Health and Medical Geography
This Companion provides a comprehensive account of health and medical geography and approaches the major themes and key topics from a variety of angles. Offers a unique breadth of topics relating to both health and medical geography Includes contributions from a range of scholars from rising stars to established, internationally renowned authors Provides an up-to-date review of the state of the sub-discipline Thematically organized sections offer…
Companion to Health and Medical Geography
Farmer Attitudes Toward Production of Perennial Energy Grasses in East Central Illinois: Implications for Community-Based Decision Making
Throughout the Midwestern United States, land owners and managers, mainly farmers, are increasingly considering the possibility of transforming industrial agricultural landscapes that currently are used almost strictly for food production to landscapes that include renewable energy production. Because most land in this region is privately owned and independently farmed, transformation of the landscape will be the product of myriad decisions by in…
Ethnic Density and Maternal and Infant Health Inequalities: Bangladeshi Immigrant Women in New York City in the 1990s
How do the social and material characteristics of residential contexts in the host country affect immigrant maternal and infant health? We examine this question through the lens of the ethnic density hypothesis, a hypothesis that posits beneficial effects on immigrant health of living in areas of high ethnic density; that is, among a socially and linguistically similar population. We analyze the association between infant low birth weight and eth…
Spatial Mismatch
Revisiting Gender, Race, and Commuting in New York
In the 1990s, many women commuted shorter distances and less time than men, and research underscored the pernicious effects of racial and ethnic segregation and access to transportation on minority women's commuting. Since then, growing income inequality and the bifurcation of employment between well-paid and secure jobs and a growing number of insecure and poorly paid jobs have been accompanied by the concentration of jobs at central and suburba…
Spatial Context
A rapidly expanding body of research investigates how social and environmental processes are shaped by the local settings in which they occur. These local settings – spatial contexts – are increasingly studied and modeled using geospatial data and methods. This entry summarizes opportunities and challenges for spatial contextual research. It reviews how spatial contexts are modeled, highlighting advances such as modeling of contexts in space and …
Green Streets: Urban Green and Birth Outcomes
Recent scholarship points to a protective association between green space and birth outcomes as well a positive relationship between blue space and wellbeing. We add to this body of literature by exploring the relationship between expectant mothers' exposure to green and blue spaces and adverse birth outcomes in New York City. The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), the NYC Street Tree Census, and access to major green spaces served as…
Winter Malaria, Urban Environmental Mismanagement and Climate Change in Khartoum City, Sudan
This study investigates malaria incidence during the hot-wet summer (June to September) and cool-dry winter (January to March) seasons in Khartoum, Sudan. Using data on malaria cases, LandScan gridded population data, and temperature data from the Global Historical Climatology Network, malaria incidence in Khartoum city in 2015 was 1,629.2 per 100,000 population in cool-dry winter months compared to 924.7 in hot-wet summer months, with temperatur…
Geography (21 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Economics (13 works) · Urban Transport and Accessibility (10 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (10 works) · Demographic economics (9 works) · Population (9 works) · Demography (8 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Business (7 works)