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Jeanne L, Bourdin S, Nadou F, Noiret G. Economic globalization and the COVID-19 pandemic: global spread and inequalities. GEOJOURNAL 2023; 88:1181-1188. [PMID: 35309019 PMCID: PMC8916502 DOI: 10.1007/s10708-022-10607-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 02/09/2022] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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In just a few weeks, COVID-19 has become a global crisis and there is no longer any question of it being a major pandemic. The spread of the disease and the speed of transmission need to be squared with the forms and characteristics of economic globalization, disparities in development between the world's different regions and the highly divergent degree of their interconnectedness. Combining a geographic approach based on mapping the global spread of the virus with the collection of data and socio-economic variables, we drew up an OLS model to identify the impact of certain socio-economic factors on the number of cases observed worldwide. Globalization and the geography of economic relations were the main drivers of the spatial structuring and speed of the international spread of the COVID-19.
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- Ludovic Jeanne
- EM Normandie Business School Metis Lab, Le Havre, France
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- EM Normandie Business School Metis Lab, Le Havre, France
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- EM Normandie Business School Metis Lab, Le Havre, France
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Amdaoud M, Arcuri G, Levratto N. Healthcare system and social trust in the fight against Covid-19: the case of France. Eur J Public Health 2021; 31:895-900. [PMID: 34142129 DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckab112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND COVID-19, like all pandemics, has territorial specificities that needs to be considered: the impact of the COVID-19 crisis strongly differs not only across countries, but also across regions, districts and municipalities within countries. There are several factors that, potentially, can contribute to the differentiated impact of COVID-19, and explain the disparities seen among areas. This study aims to contribute to this debate by analysing the role of health system and social trust in lessening the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in French départements. METHODS The data used in this study have been provided by the INSEE and the French Ministry of Health. Database is made up of the 96 départements of metropolitan France. We use spatial analysis techniques to identify the groups of areas that are particularly affected, and to test the influence of local socioeconomic factors on the spread of the epidemic. RESULTS Our exploratory spatial analysis reveals the heterogeneity and spatial autocorrelation of the disease. The use of spatial econometric models, then, allows us to highlight the impact of emergency services, and social capital in reducing the exposition to Covid-19. Our results also report on the role of spillover effects between neighbouring areas. CONCLUSIONS This research shows that, although individual characteristics are important factors in explaining the probability of contracting Covid-19 desease, health care services and social trust factors also play a significant role in curbing the epidemic's outbreak. These findings should have an interest for policy makers in the prevention of future waves of Covid-19 pandemic.
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- Mounir Amdaoud
- CEPN, CNRS, université Paris Nord, research fellow at EconomiX. Bâtiment G - Maurice Allais, 200, Avenue de la République, 92001 Nanterre cedex. ORCID: 0000-0003-2148-6532
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- Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, PRISM, EconomiX, Mail: 17 rue de la Sorbonne, 75005 Paris, Telephone number: 0033769091734. ORCID: 0000-0002-2865-0449
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- EconomiX, CNRS, université Paris Nanterre, Mail: , Bâtiment G - Maurice Allais, 200, Avenue de la République, 92001 Nanterre cedex. ORCID: 0000-0002-4928-8549
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Amdaoud M, Arcuri G, Levratto N. Are regions equal in adversity? A spatial analysis of spread and dynamics of COVID-19 in Europe. THE EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEALTH ECONOMICS : HEPAC : HEALTH ECONOMICS IN PREVENTION AND CARE 2021; 22:629-642. [PMID: 33751290 PMCID: PMC7982906 DOI: 10.1007/s10198-021-01280-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2020] [Accepted: 02/25/2021] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Often presented as a global pandemic spreading all over the world, COVID-19, however, hit not only countries but also regions differently. The objective of this paper is to focus on the spatial heterogeneity in the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and to contribute to an understanding of the channels by which it spread, focusing on the regional socioeconomic dimension. For this, we use a dataset covering 125 European regions in 12 countries. Considering that the impact of the COVID-19 crisis differed sharply not only across countries but also across regions within the same country, the empirical strategy is based, on the one hand, on an exploratory analysis of spatial autocorrelations, which makes it possible to identify regional clusters of the disease. On the other hand, we use spatial regression models to capture the diffusion effect and the role of different families of regional factors in this process. We find that the share of older people in the population, GDP per capita, distance from achieving EU objectives, and the unemployment rate are correlated with high COVID-19 death rates. In contrast, the number of medical practitioners and hospital beds and the level of social trust are correlated with low COVID-19 death rates.
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- Mounir Amdaoud
- CEPN, CNRS, Université Paris Nord, Villetaneuse, France
- EconomiX, CNRS, Université Paris Nanterre, Nanterre, France
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- PRISM, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France
- EconomiX, CNRS, Université Paris Nanterre, Nanterre, France
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Gesink D, Salway T, Kimura L, Connell J, Widener M, Ferlatte O. The Social Geography of Partner Selection in Toronto, Canada: A Qualitative Description of "Convection Mixing". ARCHIVES OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR 2020; 49:1839-1851. [PMID: 31628629 DOI: 10.1007/s10508-019-01484-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/26/2018] [Revised: 05/21/2019] [Accepted: 06/01/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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The geographic distribution of sexually transmitted infections reflects the underlying social process of sexual partner selection. This qualitative study explored the social geography of partner selection among sexual minority men and used the results to develop a mid-range theory of STI transmission. In-depth interviews with 31 sexual minority men who lived, worked, or socialized in Toronto, Canada, occurred in June and July 2016. Participants were asked how they found sexual partners and reconstructed their egocentric sexual networks for the previous 3 months. Participants described an iterative process of partner selection involving intention (sex versus dating), connecting with community, and selecting a partner based on intersecting partner characteristics (external, internal, and emergent feelings when interacting with potential partners) and personal preferences. Geography influenced partner selection three ways: (1) participant search patterns maximized the number of potential partners in the shortest distance possible; (2) the density of sexual minority men in a participant's community directly impacted participant's social and sexual isolations; and (3) geosexual isolation influenced sexual mixing patterns. Participants described "convection mixing," where assortative urban mixing nested within disassortative suburban mixing resulted in movement from the suburbs to downtown and back to the suburbs. We theorize that convection mixing may be contributing to the persistence of STI epidemics in core and outbreak areas by creating STI reservoirs outside of, and connected to, core and outbreak areas.
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- Dionne Gesink
- Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, 155 College St., Toronto, ON, M5T 3M7, Canada.
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- British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, 155 College St., Toronto, ON, M5T 3M7, Canada
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- School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Geography Department, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Social and Preventative Medicine, School of Public Health, University of Montreal, Montreal, PQ, Canada
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Card KG, Lachowsky NJ, Althoff KN, Schafer K, Hogg RS, Montaner JSG. A systematic review of the geospatial barriers to antiretroviral initiation, adherence and viral suppression among people living with HIV. Sex Health 2020; 16:1-17. [PMID: 30409243 DOI: 10.1071/sh18104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2017] [Accepted: 07/04/2018] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Background With the emergence of antiretroviral therapy (ART), Treatment as Prevention (TasP) has become the cornerstone of both HIV clinical care and HIV prevention. However, despite the efficacy of treatment-based programs and policies, structural barriers to ART initiation, adherence and viral suppression have the potential to reduce TasP effectiveness. These barriers have been studied using Geographic Information Systems (GIS). While previous reviews have examined the use of GIS for HIV testing - an essential antecedent to clinical care - to date, no reviews have summarised the research with respect to other ART-related outcomes. METHODS Therefore, the present review leveraged the PubMed database to identify studies that leveraged GIS to examine the barriers to ART initiation, adherence and viral suppression, with the overall goal of understanding how GIS has been used (and might continue to be used) to better study TasP outcomes. Joanna Briggs Institute criteria were used for the critical appraisal of included studies. RESULTS In total, 33 relevant studies were identified, excluding those not utilising explicit GIS methodology or not examining TasP-related outcomes. CONCLUSIONS Findings highlight geospatial variation in ART success and inequitable distribution of HIV care in racially segregated, economically disadvantaged, and, by some accounts, increasingly rural areas - particularly in the United States. Furthermore, this review highlights the utility and current limitations of using GIS to monitor health outcomes related to ART and the need for careful planning of resources with respect to the geospatial movement and location of people living with HIV (PLWH).
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- Kiffer G Card
- Faculty of Health Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
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- British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
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- Faculty of Health Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
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- British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Roth D, Otterstatter M, Wong J, Cook V, Johnston J, Mak S. Identification of spatial and cohort clustering of tuberculosis using surveillance data from British Columbia, Canada, 1990-2013. Soc Sci Med 2016; 168:214-222. [PMID: 27389850 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.06.047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2016] [Revised: 05/27/2016] [Accepted: 06/27/2016] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Since 2000, the global incidence of tuberculosis (TB) has decreased by 1.5% per year, becoming increasingly clustered in key subpopulations in low incidence settings. TB clustering can manifest spatially from recent transmission, or in non-spatial cohort clusters resulting from reactivation of latent infection in populations with shared risk factors. Identifying and interrupting disease clusters is required to eliminate TB in low incidence countries. Here we demonstrate an analytical approach for detecting both spatial and cohort clustering of TB among population subgroups, and describe the value in differentiating these forms of clustering. TB cases in British Columbia meeting the Canadian case definition were geocoded and mapped using Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Incidence rates were calculated for three periods (1990-1997, n = 2556; 1998-2005, n = 2488; 2006-2013, n = 2225) among Canadian born (CB) and foreign-born (FB) populations using denominator data from the Canadian Census. Spatial clusters were identified using a scanning window statistic (SaTScan) and overlaid on provincial incidence maps. Country of birth (cohort) clustering in the FB was identified using Lorenz curves and Gini coefficients. TB incidence in the CB population was generally low, but punctuated with few areas of high incidence; the spatial clusters identified in the CB match previously identified clusters. TB incidence in the FB did not show spatially localized clusters. However, Lorenz curves revealed substantial, and increasing, cohort clustering in the FB in semi-urban and rural regions of British Columbia, and less pronounced, and decreasing, clustering in urban regions. In general, the TB incidence in groups defined by country of birth shifted over time to become increasingly uniform across regions. Our approach, based on spatial analysis and the application of Lorenz curves revealed a complex coexistence of spatial and cohort clustering. Spatial and cohort clusters require differing public health responses, and differentiating types of clustering can inform TB prevention programs.
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- David Roth
- British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, 655 West 12th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia V5Z 4R4, Canada
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- British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, 655 West 12th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia V5Z 4R4, Canada; School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, 2206 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z3, Canada
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- British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, 655 West 12th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia V5Z 4R4, Canada; School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, 2206 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z3, Canada
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- British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, 655 West 12th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia V5Z 4R4, Canada; Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, 2775 Laurel Street, 10th Floor, Vancouver, British Columbia V5Z 1M9, Canada
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- British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, 655 West 12th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia V5Z 4R4, Canada; Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, 2775 Laurel Street, 10th Floor, Vancouver, British Columbia V5Z 1M9, Canada
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- British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, 655 West 12th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia V5Z 4R4, Canada.
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Lima VD, Goldberg N, Lourenço L, Chau W, Hogg RS, Guillemi S, Barrios R, Montaner JSG. Virologic suppression and mortality of patients who migrate for HIV care in the province of British Columbia, Canada, from 2003 to 2012: a retrospective cohort study. BMC Health Serv Res 2015; 15:376. [PMID: 26369664 PMCID: PMC4570764 DOI: 10.1186/s12913-015-1042-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2015] [Accepted: 09/04/2015] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Background Migration among persons living with HIV (PLWH) seeking HIV care is common; however its effect on health outcomes in resource-rich settings is not well understood. We conducted a retrospective cohort study to quantify the extent to which PLWH are migrating for care within British Columbia (BC) and its association with virologic suppression and mortality. Methods Eligible PLWH first initiated treatment in BC between 2003 and 2012 (N = 3653). Analyses were performed at the regional Health Authority (HA) level (N = 5). For privacy reasons, we kept the name of these HAs anonymous and we re-named these five regions as 1 to 5. PLWH were classified according to the HA where they resided and received HIV care. We calculated all-cause mortality rates, life expectancies (at age of 20 years), and in, out and net migration rates across HAs using different demographic methods. Virologic suppression (<50 copies/mL) was based on the last viral load available for each PLWH. We also calculated per-capita rates (per 100 PLWH ever on cART) for each HA by dividing the number of PLWH by the number of physicians attending this population. Results There is considerable heterogeneity in physician availability across all HAs, with per-capita rates (per 100 PLWH ever on cART) ranging from 2.2 (HA 1) to 12.7 (HA 3) based on the HA PLWH received care. We observed that in HAs 1, 4, and 5, between 4 and 10 % of PLWH migrated to HA 3 (i.e. the largest urban center) to receive care, and for HA 2 this proportion increased to 21 %. In HA 3, 77 % of its PLWH residents remained in the same HA for their care. Migrating to a larger center for HIV care was not associated with higher rates of viral load suppression; it was significantly associated with lower mortality rates and higher life expectancies. Conclusions A thorough understanding of the reason(s) for these significant migration rates across BC will be critical to inform resource allocation and optimize the impact of HIV treatment.
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- Viviane Dias Lima
- British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, 608-1081 Burrard Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6Z 1Y6. .,Division of AIDS, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6Z 1Y6.
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, M5S 1A8.
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- British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, 608-1081 Burrard Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6Z 1Y6.
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- British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, 608-1081 Burrard Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6Z 1Y6.
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada, V5A 1S6.
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- British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, 608-1081 Burrard Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6Z 1Y6.
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- British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, 608-1081 Burrard Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6Z 1Y6.
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- British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, 608-1081 Burrard Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6Z 1Y6. .,Division of AIDS, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6Z 1Y6.
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Martinez AN, Mobley LR, Lorvick J, Novak SP, Lopez A, Kral AH. Spatial analysis of HIV positive injection drug users in San Francisco, 1987 to 2005. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2014; 11:3937-55. [PMID: 24722543 PMCID: PMC4024992 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph110403937] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2013] [Revised: 03/21/2014] [Accepted: 03/24/2014] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Spatial analyses of HIV/AIDS related outcomes are growing in popularity as a tool to understand geographic changes in the epidemic and inform the effectiveness of community-based prevention and treatment programs. The Urban Health Study was a serial, cross-sectional epidemiological study of injection drug users (IDUs) in San Francisco between 1987 and 2005 (N = 29,914). HIV testing was conducted for every participant. Participant residence was geocoded to the level of the United States Census tract for every observation in dataset. Local indicator of spatial autocorrelation (LISA) tests were used to identify univariate and bivariate Census tract clusters of HIV positive IDUs in two time periods. We further compared three tract level characteristics (% poverty, % African Americans, and % unemployment) across areas of clustered and non-clustered tracts. We identified significant spatial clustering of high numbers of HIV positive IDUs in the early period (1987-1995) and late period (1996-2005). We found significant bivariate clusters of Census tracts where HIV positive IDUs and tract level poverty were above average compared to the surrounding areas. Our data suggest that poverty, rather than race, was an important neighborhood characteristic associated with the spatial distribution of HIV in SF and its spatial diffusion over time.
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- Alexis N Martinez
- Department of Sociology and Sexuality Studies, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94132, USA.
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- GeoDa Center, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA.
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- Urban Health Program, RTI International, 351 California Street, Suite 500, San Francisco, CA 94104, USA.
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- Urban Health Program, RTI International, 351 California Street, Suite 500, San Francisco, CA 94104, USA.
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- Urban Health Program, RTI International, 351 California Street, Suite 500, San Francisco, CA 94104, USA.
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- Urban Health Program, RTI International, 351 California Street, Suite 500, San Francisco, CA 94104, USA.
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Coldefy M, Curtis SE. The geography of institutional psychiatric care in France 1800-2000: historical analysis of the spatial diffusion of specialised facilities for institutional care of mental illness. Soc Sci Med 2010; 71:2117-29. [PMID: 21055855 PMCID: PMC7116974 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.09.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2009] [Revised: 07/21/2010] [Accepted: 09/16/2010] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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As in other European countries, specialised psychiatric hospitals were established throughout France during the 19th Century. The construction of these hospitals can be considered as the concrete expression of a therapeutic innovation which recognized insanity as an illness that could be treated in such specialised institutions. The spatial diffusion of these innovative institutions through 19th and 20th century France is analysed and we explore how far this can be understood through theories of diffusion of innovations including geographical models of hierarchical and expansion diffusion (or whether other conceptual models are more appropriate). The research reported here particularly focuses on the period 1800-1961. It involved the construction of an original historical database of both psychiatric hospitals and information on the cities where these institutions were located. This was used to examine and interpret the different phases of development of psychiatric institutions and the parts of the country and types of geographical setting where they were concentrated. A multiple correspondence analysis was then performed to examine the connections between different aspects of the diffusion process. The study shows the limitations of classical models of spatial diffusion, which are found to be consistent with some, but not all aspects of the development of psychiatric institutions in France. An alternative political ecology approach seems more appropriate to conceptualise the various processes involved; national policies, social representations, medicalisation of care of mental illness, and urban and economic growth all seem to be associated with the emergence of a variable and complex pattern. This paper also opens a large field of research. Compared with other western countries, the geography of French psychiatric care is relatively under-researched, although there has been a strong spatial dimension to mental health policy in the country. This analysis provides a context for studies of more contemporary processes of French deinstitutionalisation, which is strongly structured by the past heritage of these large asylum facilities.
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- Magali Coldefy
- Institute for Research and Information in Health Economics, Paris, France.
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Masuda JR, Crabtree A. Environmental justice in the therapeutic inner city. Health Place 2010; 16:656-65. [DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2010.02.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2009] [Revised: 12/23/2009] [Accepted: 02/08/2010] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Rachlis B, Brouwer KC, Mills EJ, Hayes M, Kerr T, Hogg RS. Migration and transmission of blood-borne infections among injection drug users: understanding the epidemiologic bridge. Drug Alcohol Depend 2007; 90:107-19. [PMID: 17485179 DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2007.03.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2006] [Revised: 03/29/2007] [Accepted: 03/29/2007] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Migration is one of many social factors contributing to the spread of HIV and other blood-borne or sexually transmitted infections (STI). Bringing together large numbers of people from diverse settings, the process of migration moves infected individuals to diverse geographic locations. Injection drug users (IDU) are a relatively mobile group, often moving between cities, smaller communities, and across international borders for reasons of work, security, or access to narcotics. This mobility indicates the potential for IDU who engage in risky behavior outside their home areas to transmit HIV infection to other IDU, their sex partners, and others in the population. The objectives of this review are to examine: (1) the influence of drug trafficking and the spread of drug use on the diffusion of HIV, (2) the influence of migration on drug use and HIV-related risk behaviors among migrants, and (3) the mobility patterns of IDU and its role in the spread of HIV. We also discuss the potential policy implications of addressing prevention and care issues in mobile drug using populations.
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- Beth Rachlis
- BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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This paper examines if and how temporary migration increases the risk for HIV/STDs in China. Results suggest that temporary migrants had significantly higher prevalence of HIV-risk sexual and drug using behaviours but no significant differences were found between migrants and non-migrants in prevalence of HIV/STDs. Employing logistic regression analysis, we examined three mechanisms--lax social control, social isolation and migrant selectivity--by which the process of migration may lead to behaviour changes that increase migrants' HIV/STD risks. Results indicate that post-migration lax social control was the most significant mediating factor between migration and HIV risk behaviours. Temporary migrants are at high risk of HIV/STDs. Prevention interventions need to pay particular attention to migrants' post-migration lax social control.
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- X Yang
- Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529, USA.
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Frohlich KL, Ross N, Richmond C. Health disparities in Canada today: some evidence and a theoretical framework. Health Policy 2006; 79:132-43. [PMID: 16519957 DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2005.12.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 135] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2005] [Accepted: 12/14/2005] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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This paper documents contemporary evidence on patterns of health disparities in Canada and suggests theoretical mechanisms that give rise to these patterns. The overall health of Canadians, as measured by life expectancy or mortality, has improved dramatically over the past 30 years and some disparities have diminished slightly (e.g., life expectancy by income group for men), while others have increased (e.g., diabetes for Aboriginal peoples). Arguably the most egregious health disparities in Canada are those existing between Aboriginals and the rest of the Canadian population. This paper focuses specifically on three social determinants and their effects on disparities in health; Aboriginal status, income, and place. Overall we take the approach that disparities in health could be alleviated by reducing inequities in the distribution of these determinants. We further argue that these social determinants are proxies for opportunities, resources and constraints; all of which influence health outcomes. We suggest that policies focus on reducing the social inequities that lead to health disparities in Canada, rather than focusing on the disparities in health alone. Since the social determinants described here have been found to influence an array of disease outcomes, tackling them, rather than their outcomes, may have a greater overall influence on the health of the population.
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- Katherine L Frohlich
- Université de Montréal, Group de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Santé (GRIS), C.P. 6128, Succursale Centre-Ville, Montréal, Que., Canada H3C 3J7.
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Urbanization is probably the single most important demographic shift world-wide throughout the past and the new century and represents a sentinel change from how most of the world's population has lived for the past several thousand years. As urban living becomes the predominant social context for the majority of the world's population, the very ubiquity of urban living promises to shape health directly and to indirectly affect what we typically consider risk factors or determinants of population health. Although a growing body of research is exploring how characteristics of the urban environment may be associated with health (e.g. depression) and risk behaviours (e.g. exercise patterns), relatively little research has systematically assessed how the urban environment may affect drug use and misuse. In this paper we will propose a conceptual framework for considering how different characteristics of the urban environment (e.g. collective efficacy, the built environment) may be associated with drug use and misuse, summarize the existing empiric literature that substantiates elements of this framework, and identify potential directions for future research.
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- Sandro Galea
- Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies, New York Academy of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA.
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Richmond C, Elliott SJ, Matthews R, Elliott B. The political ecology of health: perceptions of environment, economy, health and well-being among ‘Namgis First Nation. Health Place 2005; 11:349-65. [PMID: 15886143 DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2004.04.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/30/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
Abstract
Informed by Mayer's (Progr. Hum. Geogr 20 (1996) 441) political ecology of disease framework, this paper investigates First Nation's perceptions of the links between environment, economy and health and well-being. A case study of 'Namgis First Nation (Alert Bay, British Columbia, Canada) is used to explore the risks and benefits of salmon aquaculture for British Columbia's First Nations. Analysis of interview data (n = 23) indicates strong links between reduced access to environmental resources, marginal participation in the economy, and declining community health and well being. Results suggest that aquaculture development has further decreased the community's access to environmental resources, thereby restricting those economic, social, and cultural activities that determine good health and well-being for this community.
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Affiliation(s)
- C Richmond
- Department of Geography, McGill University, Burnside Hall, 429, 805 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC, Canada
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