Social disintegration and the spread of AIDS: Thresholds for propagation along ‘sociogeographic’ networks

Methamphetamine use patterns among urban Black men who have sex with men

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Methamphetamine use patterns among urban Black men who have sex with men

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Social Support and Social Network Profiles among Women on Methadone

“…This finding suggests an interesting perspective on what Rodrick Wallace has called a ''sociogeographic network.'' 44 The closer the network members lived to the respondents, the less likely they were to be a positive source of influence on curtailing respondents' drug use. In the present study, network members who lived near the respondents also resided in Harlem.…”

Evaluating Residential Segregation’s Relation to the Clustering of Poor Health across American Cities

“…First, low income and unstable neighborhoods can be the site of many social stressors, like high crime, which can be detrimental to health [34,35]. Second, the breakdown of social order in a community can compound into the emergence of poor health behaviors such as the resistance to get vaccinations [36], failing to engage in timely cancer screening [37,38], or not practicing safe sex [39]. Third, low income communities often lack concentrations of local resources like quality food [40] or healthcare [30].…”

“…Segregated non-White communities are associated with political alienation and powerlessness and are consequentially at unique risk to health dangers [20] -either directly, through the construction of pollutants in their neighborhoods like trash incinerators [46] and lead emissions [47], and indirectly, through inconsistent policing [32,33] or lack of oversight of safety in older housing stock [42,48]. This neglect also contributes to the vulnerability of these communities to illness, such as the failure of the government and public health system to intervene on HIV in the 1980 s and 90 s [39]. They are less likely to have the resources needed to manage these problems, such as quality healthcare, due to the powerlessness [49].…”

Methamphetamine use patterns among urban Black men who have sex with men

“……”

Social Support and Social Network Profiles among Women on Methadone

“…This finding suggests an interesting perspective on what Rodrick Wallace has called a ''sociogeographic network.'' 44 The closer the network members lived to the respondents, the less likely they were to be a positive source of influence on curtailing respondents' drug use. In the present study, network members who lived near the respondents also resided in Harlem.…”

Evaluating Residential Segregation’s Relation to the Clustering of Poor Health across American Cities

“…First, low income and unstable neighborhoods can be the site of many social stressors, like high crime, which can be detrimental to health [34,35]. Second, the breakdown of social order in a community can compound into the emergence of poor health behaviors such as the resistance to get vaccinations [36], failing to engage in timely cancer screening [37,38], or not practicing safe sex [39]. Third, low income communities often lack concentrations of local resources like quality food [40] or healthcare [30].…”

“…Segregated non-White communities are associated with political alienation and powerlessness and are consequentially at unique risk to health dangers [20] -either directly, through the construction of pollutants in their neighborhoods like trash incinerators [46] and lead emissions [47], and indirectly, through inconsistent policing [32,33] or lack of oversight of safety in older housing stock [42,48]. This neglect also contributes to the vulnerability of these communities to illness, such as the failure of the government and public health system to intervene on HIV in the 1980 s and 90 s [39]. They are less likely to have the resources needed to manage these problems, such as quality healthcare, due to the powerlessness [49].…”

Methamphetamine use patterns among urban Black men who have sex with men

“……”

Social Support and Social Network Profiles among Women on Methadone

“…This finding suggests an interesting perspective on what Rodrick Wallace has called a ''sociogeographic network.'' 44 The closer the network members lived to the respondents, the less likely they were to be a positive source of influence on curtailing respondents' drug use. In the present study, network members who lived near the respondents also resided in Harlem.…”

Evaluating Residential Segregation’s Relation to the Clustering of Poor Health across American Cities

“…First, low income and unstable neighborhoods can be the site of many social stressors, like high crime, which can be detrimental to health [34,35]. Second, the breakdown of social order in a community can compound into the emergence of poor health behaviors such as the resistance to get vaccinations [36], failing to engage in timely cancer screening [37,38], or not practicing safe sex [39]. Third, low income communities often lack concentrations of local resources like quality food [40] or healthcare [30].…”

“…Segregated non-White communities are associated with political alienation and powerlessness and are consequentially at unique risk to health dangers [20] -either directly, through the construction of pollutants in their neighborhoods like trash incinerators [46] and lead emissions [47], and indirectly, through inconsistent policing [32,33] or lack of oversight of safety in older housing stock [42,48]. This neglect also contributes to the vulnerability of these communities to illness, such as the failure of the government and public health system to intervene on HIV in the 1980 s and 90 s [39]. They are less likely to have the resources needed to manage these problems, such as quality healthcare, due to the powerlessness [49].…”