Abstract
The aim of this study was to assess mobility patterns among a sample of transgender women (n=14) in New York City via survey and Global Positioning System (GPS) monitoring. We found varying levels of concordance between the residential neighbourhood and each of the non-residential contexts: 64.3% considered the neighbourhood that they socialised in most often to be different from their residential neighbourhood. While participants’ residences represented 10 zone improvement plan code tabulation areas (ZCTAs), GPS data were recorded in 124 of 263 ZCTAs (47.1%). Overall, 58.2% (n=373,262) were recorded in ZCTAs in the highest quartile of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevalence. The association between place, community HIV prevalence, mobility, and factors that increase the vulnerability of transgender women to HIV infection are worthy of future investigation in reducing the burden of the HIV epidemic in these communities.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | 752 |
| Pages (from-to) | 351-356 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Geospatial Health |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Nov 12 2019 |
Funding
Conflict of interest: the authors declare no potential conflict of interest. (e.g., zone improvement plan [ZIP] codes, census tracts) (Duncan et al., 2018). These definitions are most often used to approximate Funding: this work was funded by a grant from the New York an individual’s residential environment and are the most common University College of Arts and SciNencoe Dnean-’cs Uondmergramduaete Rrecseiarachl method for delineating neighbourhood boundaries in the literature Fund (Principal Investigator: William C. Goedel, BA). At the time of on neighbourhood effects on health (Duncan et al., 2018). The use analysis and writing, Dustin T. Duncan, ScD was supported in part by of these boundaries, however, can introduce spatial misclassifica-grants from the National Institutes of Health (R01MD013554, tion, or the errors associated with the incorrect characterisation of R01MH112406, and R03DA039748), and the Centers for Disease a neighbourhood-level feature based on the neighbourhood defini-Control and Prevention (U01PS005122). tion used, as this approach makes isotropic assumptions about both the distribution of characteristics within these units and about an individual’s mobility within them (Duncan et al., 2013, 2017). this work was funded by a grant from the New York University College of Arts and Science Dean?s Undergraduate Research Fund (Principal Investigator: William C. Goedel, BA). At the time of analysis and writing, Dustin T. Duncan, ScD was supported in part by grants from the National Institutes of Health (R01MD013554, R01MH112406, and R03DA039748), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U01PS005122).
Keywords
- Global positioning system
- HIV
- Mobility
- Spatial epidemiology
- Transgender
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Medicine (miscellaneous)
- Health(social science)
- Geography, Planning and Development
- Health Policy
