Steep socioeconomic hierarchy in post-industrial Western society threatens public health because of the physiological consequences of material and psychosocial insecurities and deprivations. Following on from their previous books, the authors continue their exploration of the geography of early...

Generalized Darwinian evolutionary theory has emerged as central to the description of economic process (e.g., Aldrich et al., J Evol Econ 18:577–596, <CitationRef CitationID="CR3">2008</CitationRef>). Just as Darwinian principles provide necessary, but not sufficient, conditions for understanding the dynamics of social entities, so too...</citationref>

Previous work on the asymptotic spread of HIV infection along a low dimensional 'sociogeographic' network--a social network characteristically embedded within a limited geographic area--is extended to explore threshold conditions under which the infection extends widely beyond an initial set of...

The March, 1978 issue of Management Science carried a paper by Jan M. Chaiken titled "Transfer of Emergency Service Deployment Models to Operating Agencies" which purported to describe the successful implementation of, among other things, fire service management models developed by the Rand...

Census data on migration within and between the 25 largest U.S. metropolitan areas--containing more than 113 million people--permit construction of a probability-of-contact matrix corre-sponding to a particular Markov process dominated by the nation's largest cities, a hierarchical structure....

Recent empirical research, and a simple stochastic modeling exercise, suggest that affluent suburban communities are at increased risk for the diffusion of HIV from present inner city epicenters, while the 'core group' construct of sexually transmitted disease theory suggests, somewhat...

Empirical techniques adapted from ecosystem-resilience theory allow estimation of how public health and public order within the New York Metropolitan Region respond to perturbations driven by changes in policy or economic structure. This approach constitutes a rigorous methodology for...