Ben R Spoer
Biographic Data
| ID | 5137879 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ben R Spoer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ben R |
| FAMILY NAME | Spoer |
| SIGNATURE | SPOER B R |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0311-7963 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Within-City Average Life Expectancy “Gaps”
We characterize within-city life expectancy gaps and their correlation with social and environmental characteristics in 948 US cities. Life expectancy estimates were drawn from the US Life Expectancy Estimation Program. City life expectancy gaps were calculated by subtracting the lowest tract-level life expectancy estimate from the highest for each city. Correlations were established using Spearman's correlation coefficient. The average city-leve…
Assessing potential benefits of visits to neighborhoods with higher tree canopy coverage using mobility data
This study identified that greater tree canopy coverage in visited neighborhoods relative to home neighborhoods was associated with lower stroke prevalence, and associations varied across home neighborhoods with different tree canopy coverage levels. It emphasized the need to factor in the neighborhood mobility networks in urban planning initiatives to promote cardiovascular health
State-Level Firearm Laws and Firearm Homicide in US Cities
Validation of a geospatial aggregation method for congressional districts and other US administrative geographies
Stakeholders need data on health and drivers of health parsed to the boundaries of essential policy-relevant geographies. US Congressional Districts are an example of a policy-relevant geography which generally lack health data. One strategy to generate Congressional District heath data metric estimates is to aggregate estimates from other geographies, for example, from counties or census tracts to Congressional Districts. Doing so requires sever…
Association between racial residential segregation and walkability in 745 U.S. cities
Despite higher chronic disease prevalence, minoritized populations live in highly walkable neighborhoods in US cities more frequently than non-minoritized populations. We investigated whether city-level racial residential segregation (RRS) was associated with city-level walkability, stratified by population density, possibly explaining this counterintuitive association. RRS for Black-White and Latino-White segregation in large US cities was calcu…
Associations between a Novel Measure of Census Tract-Level Credit Insecurity and Frequent Mental Distress in US Urban Areas, 2020
Validation of a neighborhood-level Covid Local Risk Index in 47 large U.S. cities
Building Public Health Surveillance 3.0
In response to rapidly changing societal conditions stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, we summarize data sources with potential to produce timely and spatially granular measures of physical, economic, and social conditions relevant to public health surveillance, and we briefly describe emerging analytic methods to improve small-area estimation. To inform this article, we reviewed published systematic review articles set in the United States fro…
Neighborhood-level Asian American Populations, Social Determinants of Health, and Health Outcomes in 500 US Cities
When comparing places with significant AA vs NHW populations, city-level data obscured substantial variation in neighborhood-level SDH and health outcome measures. Our findings emphasize the dual importance of granular spatial and AA subgroup data in assessing the influence of SDH in AA populations
Neighborhood-level Asian American Populations, Social Determinants of Health, and Health Outcomes in 500 US Cities
When comparing places with significant AA vs NHW populations, city-level data obscured substantial variation in neighborhood-level SDH and health outcome measures. Our findings emphasize the dual importance of granular spatial and AA subgroup data in assessing the influence of SDH in AA populations
Association between racial residential segregation and walkability in 745 U.S. cities
Despite higher chronic disease prevalence, minoritized populations live in highly walkable neighborhoods in US cities more frequently than non-minoritized populations. We investigated whether city-level racial residential segregation (RRS) was associated with city-level walkability, stratified by population density, possibly explaining this counterintuitive association. RRS for Black-White and Latino-White segregation in large US cities was calcu…
Validation of a neighborhood-level Covid Local Risk Index in 47 large U.S. cities
Building Public Health Surveillance 3.0
In response to rapidly changing societal conditions stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, we summarize data sources with potential to produce timely and spatially granular measures of physical, economic, and social conditions relevant to public health surveillance, and we briefly describe emerging analytic methods to improve small-area estimation. To inform this article, we reviewed published systematic review articles set in the United States fro…
Neighborhood-level Asian American Populations, Social Determinants of Health, and Health Outcomes in 500 US Cities
When comparing places with significant AA vs NHW populations, city-level data obscured substantial variation in neighborhood-level SDH and health outcome measures. Our findings emphasize the dual importance of granular spatial and AA subgroup data in assessing the influence of SDH in AA populations
Validation of a neighborhood-level Covid Local Risk Index in 47 large U.S. cities
Building Public Health Surveillance 3.0
In response to rapidly changing societal conditions stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, we summarize data sources with potential to produce timely and spatially granular measures of physical, economic, and social conditions relevant to public health surveillance, and we briefly describe emerging analytic methods to improve small-area estimation. To inform this article, we reviewed published systematic review articles set in the United States fro…
Validation of a geospatial aggregation method for congressional districts and other US administrative geographies
Stakeholders need data on health and drivers of health parsed to the boundaries of essential policy-relevant geographies. US Congressional Districts are an example of a policy-relevant geography which generally lack health data. One strategy to generate Congressional District heath data metric estimates is to aggregate estimates from other geographies, for example, from counties or census tracts to Congressional Districts. Doing so requires sever…
Association between racial residential segregation and walkability in 745 U.S. cities
Despite higher chronic disease prevalence, minoritized populations live in highly walkable neighborhoods in US cities more frequently than non-minoritized populations. We investigated whether city-level racial residential segregation (RRS) was associated with city-level walkability, stratified by population density, possibly explaining this counterintuitive association. RRS for Black-White and Latino-White segregation in large US cities was calcu…
Associations between a Novel Measure of Census Tract-Level Credit Insecurity and Frequent Mental Distress in US Urban Areas, 2020
Assessing potential benefits of visits to neighborhoods with higher tree canopy coverage using mobility data
This study identified that greater tree canopy coverage in visited neighborhoods relative to home neighborhoods was associated with lower stroke prevalence, and associations varied across home neighborhoods with different tree canopy coverage levels. It emphasized the need to factor in the neighborhood mobility networks in urban planning initiatives to promote cardiovascular health
State-Level Firearm Laws and Firearm Homicide in US Cities
Within-City Average Life Expectancy “Gaps”
We characterize within-city life expectancy gaps and their correlation with social and environmental characteristics in 948 US cities. Life expectancy estimates were drawn from the US Life Expectancy Estimation Program. City life expectancy gaps were calculated by subtracting the lowest tract-level life expectancy estimate from the highest for each city. Correlations were established using Spearman's correlation coefficient. The average city-leve…
Demography (7 works) · Environmental health (7 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Demography (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Population (4 works) · Census (3 works) · Economics (3 works)