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Outdoor activities confer mental, physical, and social health benefits to children. In urban areas, parks are vital for children to engage in outdoor activities. Understanding public perceptions and expectations of how urban park environments influence children's activity could attenuate social and physical inequities and promote park use. Previous studies have used surveys and observational data to analyze preferences for children's activity in parks. Crowdsourced online data and volunteered geographic information (VGI) could offer a valuable addition to or substitute for traditional approaches. Our study uses social media as a passive data collection method to ascertain public perceptions and expectations about children's activity in Atlanta parks with a shorter timeframe, compared to a regular survey analysis. We collected 4026 Google Map reviews from 2017 to 2022 that related to children and applied text mining analysis to understand how people perceive children's activity in Atlanta parks and how perceptions change across different environments. Ten topics were extracted that related to children's activity in Atlanta parks: attitude, amenity, safety, social, pet, nature, recreational, water sports, water recreational, and sports. The attitude, social, and water recreational topics were the most widely discussed topics in all settings. However, in racially diverse and low-crime environments, discussions centered on pet, recreational, and sports, suggest the importance of tailored strategies to promote children's activities in parks. Park planners and policymakers can use this approach and findings to evaluate and advocate for children's activities in urban parks. Also, our work helps to expand survey analysis with passive data collection methods from small geographic scales to larger areas and to apply geoanalytics of big data and social media data in investigation research.

<p class="Pa7"><strong>Objective: </strong>To examine whether residence in ethnically segregated metropolitan areas is associated with increased diabetes risk for Latinos in the United States.</p><p class="Pa7"><strong>Methods: </strong>Population data from the 2005 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and the 2005 American Community Survey were used to determine whether higher levels of Latino-White segregation across metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) in the United States is associated with increased diabetes risk among Latinos (<em>N</em>=7462).</p><p class="Pa7"><strong>Results: </strong>No significant relationship (<em>P</em>&lt;.05) between levels of segregation and diabetes risk was observed.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The research literature examin­ing the impact of residential segregation on health outcomes remains equivocal for Latinos. <em>Ethn Dis. </em>2015;25(4):451-458; doi:10.18865/ed.25.4.451</p>

Cover -- Half Title -- Serial Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Africa's epidemiologic transition of dual burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases -- Introduction -- References -- Chapter 2: Taking it global: Toward an index of wellbeing for low- to middle-income countries -- Understanding how the world works -- Progress in measuring wellbeing -- Conclusion - The way forward -- Notes -- References -- Websites -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Part II: Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases -- Chapter 3: Examining the West African Ebola outbreak through the application of the disease ecology framework -- Introduction -- Biological context of Ebola/Marburg viruses -- Historical context of past Ebola outbreaks -- The disease ecology framework -- Application of the disease ecology framework to the Ebola outbreak of 2013-2016 -- Analysis -- Discussion and conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Progress towards combatting HIV/AIDS in Africa -- Introduction -- The 1980s: HIV discovery and the early years -- The 1990s: A pandemic is born and rages on -- The 2000s: Global partnerships, an HIV pandemic in transition, and new hope for a continent -- The 2010s: Beginning of the end of HIV/AIDS -- Conclusion and prospects for the 2020s - The post-pandemic era? -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5: Progress towards combatting malaria in Africa -- Introduction -- Methodology -- Results -- Discussion: Malaria in social context -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: The impact of land use and land cover change on the spatial distribution of Buruli ulcer in southwest Ghana -- Introduction -- Background -- Methods -- Spatial and statistical analyses -- Results and discussion -- Conclusion