Abstract
Understanding Adolescent Behavior with GIS - Case Study: Portland, Oregon Track: Health and Human Services Author(s): Erich Seamon In recent years, there has been an increased interest in understanding the antecedents and correlates of adolescent behavior problems and delinquency with geography and the use of GIS becoming extremely useful in understanding these diffuse relationships. This presentation will review efforts to geospatially analyze a variety of geographic datasets (crime, census demographics, socioeconomic status) with the aforementioned psychosocial variables, longitudinally collected over the last five (5) years for the Portland, Oregon, area. The authors will also present efforts to develop neighborhood-level indices that show correlations between conduct difficulties and the aforementioned geographic datasets as well as discuss attempts to estimate reliability/validity for the obtained relationships between the psychosocial and geospatial metrics. Results of these analyses will show geographically linked patterns of community risk factors that can be subsequently used for targeted intervention efforts as well as a geospatial methodology that can be extended to other geographic areas. Erich Seamon Erich Seamon & Associates 1161 Market St. ##297 San Francisco, CA , CA 94114 US Phone: 877 372 2677 E-mail: erich@erichseamon.com |
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