The role played by the Mekong River in the organization of land and people is inextricably linked with a particular spatial category. The concept of the hydrological catchment extends the space of the river far beyond the limits of the river’s perennial waterbodies, to encompass vast areas inhabited by millions of people speaking different language...
Published in Medical care research and review : MCRR
Racial/ethnic composition of nursing home (NH) plays a particularly important role in NH quality. A key methodological issue is defining when an NH serves a low versus high proportion of racially/ethnically diverse residents. Using the Minimum Data Set from 2015 merged with Certification and Survey Provider Enhanced Reports, we calculated the racia...
Published in International journal of methods in psychiatric research
Small area analysis is a health services research technique that facilitates geographical comparison of services supply and utilization rates between health service areas (HSAs). HSAs are functionally relevant regions around medical facilities within which most residents undergo treatment. We aimed to identify HSAs for psychiatric outpatient care (...
ObjectivesSmall area analysis is a health services research technique that facilitates geographical comparison of services supply and utilization rates between health service areas (HSAs). HSAs are functionally relevant regions around medical facilities within which most residents undergo treatment. We aimed to identify HSAs for psychiatric outpati...
Published in Stroke
Although geographical differences in treatment and outcomes after stroke have been described, we lack evidence on differences in the costs of treatment between urban and nonurban regions. Additionally, it is unclear whether greater costs in one setting are justified given the outcomes achieved. We aimed to compare costs and quality-adjusted life ye...
Tobacco use prevalence is higher in rural compared to urban settings, possibly due to differences in tobacco availability, including the option to purchase food and other essential items in stores that do not sell tobacco (tobacco-free food retailers). The goal of this research is to determine whether tobacco-free food retailer availability varies ...
In this editorial we ask key questions about what it means to publish ‘a journal’ in a world of publishing which is driven by individual article metrics and online access. Seeing the value of journals as venues for intellectual debate, we therefore set out a renewed vision as to how the Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers can provi...
Published in The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism
Ongoing research is needed to determine geo-epidemiologic differences of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). Determine hormonal and metabolic parameters of women with PCOS in 2 environments. Prospective cohort study. Tertiary-care based specialty clinics in Alabama and California. A total of 1610 women with PCOS by National Institutes of Health Crite...
Published in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
The crucial roles of soil carbon (C) and nutrients and their stoichiometric characteristics in indicating the soil interior nutrient cycling and plant nutrient supply of forest ecosystems have been widely verified, whereas it has been less explored when considering the influencing factors regionally, especially for the widely cultivated plantation ...
My dissertation, Geographies of Settler Innocence: Atlas of Decolonization, argues that Palestinian filmmakers and media artists have developed a visual language that subverts Israel’s geographies of settler innocence. I theorize settler innocence as a discursive strategy that disappears signs of Indigenous displacement from the dominant visual fie...
