Background: Increasing access to and utilization of long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARC) can prevent unintended pregnancies reduce unmet need for family planning in Ethiopia However, LARC uptake lags behind less effective contraceptive methods. This study aimed analyze the geographical distribution demographic factors associated uptake. Methods: The 2019 Performance Monitoring For Action (PMA Ethiopia) survey data was used. Spatial autocorrelation examined using Global Moran's I...

This article examines how neighborhood racial diversity shaped segregation in Chicago from 1980 to 2000, utilizing data the 1980, 1990, and 2000 United States censuses. Three questions framed this research project. First, racially diverse were neighborhoods? Second, which factors associated with diversity? And third, has change changed patterns of Chicago? The Theil entropy score H index used create scores for each census tract global scores, respectively. Evidence is presented that supports...

The goal of this paper was to investigate poverty and inequities that are associated with vegetation. First, we performed a pixel-level linear regression on time-series Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) for 72 United States (U.S.) cities population ≥250,000 16 years (1990, 1991, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001 2010) using Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer 1-kilometer (1-km). Second, from the regression, selected five U.S. (Shrinking: Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, Growing:...

Mainstream machine learning approaches to predictive analytics consistently prove their ability perform well using a variety of datasets, although the task identifying an optimally-performing approach for any given dataset becomes much less intuitive. Methods such as ensemble and transformation modeling have been developed improve upon individual base learners datasets with large degrees variance. Despite increased generalizability flexibility approaches, cost often involves sacrificing...

This paper examines the trends in Latino neighborhoods located a metropolitan statistical area. We focused on because they are important features of urban built environment. The change this space from non-Latino to identity has significant implications. analysis four research questions: (1) how many exist US? (2) which regions had neighborhoods? (3) what was spatial relationship within each region? and (4) factors were associated with provide empirical evidence answer these questions. First,...

To understand how educational policies are created and supported for immigrants their children, we must explore community members make sense of broader immigrant/immigration discourses. Guided by theories “boundary work,” grounded analyses 27 interviews with U.S.-born residents in metropolitan St. Louis (a diverse increasing immigration) revealed conflicting ambivalent Respondents’ opinions shifted as they conceptualized affiliations borders—real symbolic—between themselves foreign-born...

The current study spatially examines the local variability of robbery rates in City Saint Louis, Missouri using both census tract and block group data disaggregated standardized to 250- 500-m raster grid spatial scale. Spatial Lag Model (SLM) indicated measures race stability as globally influencing rates. To explore these relationships further, Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) was used determine variability. We found that appeared be more powerful models, while were precise....

School meals provide significant access to food and nutrition for children adolescents, particularly through universal free meal mechanisms. Alongside added nutritional requirements under the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act (2010), schools can utilize program policy mechanisms such as Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) Breakfast after Bell (BATB) increase participation. This study examines longitudinal statewide school-level CEP BATB adoption estimates impact on increased reduced-price...

Immigration remains a politically contentious issue around the United States. In this study, we explore attitudes of Missouri residents toward immigrants residing in state. While immigrant population has increased 172% since 1980, foreign-born remain relatively few number, comprising mere 4% state’s 2010. Small size notwithstanding, state legislators have submitted numerous bills limiting rights over past several years. Nonetheless, our findings, research paper, suggest that most Missourians...

In this paper, we advance an analytical model for pan-Latino identity formation. We argue that because of the unbounded nature Latino as concept, term has come to mean everything and anything in popular discourse. Using two processes foster formation U.S. (e.g., racialization formation) identify four categories. The categories move us beyond a simplistic conceptual apparatus conflates folk meanings Latino. heuristic provide framework more accurately captures experience dimensions solidarity

Obesity is the fastest-growing cause of disease and death in United States, with minority populations suffering some most severe consequences. Latinos constitute 16% U.S. population as 2010, have a higher proportion that overweight obese compared their non-Hispanic Black White counterparts. Although there are over 15.8 million Latino residents living non-gateway states (outside California, Texas, Arizona, Illinois, New York), little research exploring obesity factors among outside gateway...

Abstract Building upon recent theoretical developments in pan-ethnic research, this article explores Latino neighborhood diversity for urban and nonurban Latino-majority neighborhoods from 1980, 1990, 2000. We measured using the Theil entropy score four groups: Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, all other Latinos. The evidence points to: (1) a small increase period between 1980 2000; (2) negative relationship concentration diversity; (3) of economic disadvantages. findings suggest that...

"THE COLOR OF CITIZENSHIP: RACE, MODERNITY AND LATIN AMERICAN/HISPANIC POLITICAL THOUGHT." Ethnic and Racial Studies, 36(6), pp. 1120–1121

This article reports results from an applied research project between Catholic Charities Community Services Southside Center (CCCSSC) and the Department of Sociology Anthropology (DSA) at Saint Louis University. In August 2010, CCCSSC DSA began working on a called Engaging Latinos in Access to Counseling Education (EnLACE). The findings this were threefold: first, empirical data suggest that quality life among Latino immigrants was affected by perceived health, money, transportation,...