Engstrom, Ryan; Ofiesh, Caetlin; Rain, David; Jewell, Henry - In: Journal of Maps 9 (2013) 1, pp. 36-42
The neighborhood has been used as a sampling unit for exploring variations in health outcomes. In a variety of studies census tracts or ZIP codes have been used as proxies for neighborhoods because the boundaries are pre-defined units for which other data are readily available. However these...