TY - JOUR
T1 - Community pharmacies and addictive products
T2 - Sociodemographic predictors of accessibility from a mixed GWR perspective
AU - Yu, Danlin
AU - Morton, Cory M.
AU - Peterson, N. Andrew
PY - 2014/1/2
Y1 - 2014/1/2
N2 - Community pharmacies selling potentially harmful products may contradict their role in health promotion. From a spatial analysis perspective, this study investigated the sale of alcohol, tobacco, and lottery tickets by community pharmacies in Passaic County, New Jersey, and assessed the relationship between sociodemographic factors of community residents and their potential accessibility to those community pharmacies. A mixed geographically weighted regression analysis revealed that census block groups with higher median household income tend to have less accessibility to pharmacies that sell addictive products. Relationships between Latino population and those pharmacies are mixed. No significant relationship was found for African American population.
AB - Community pharmacies selling potentially harmful products may contradict their role in health promotion. From a spatial analysis perspective, this study investigated the sale of alcohol, tobacco, and lottery tickets by community pharmacies in Passaic County, New Jersey, and assessed the relationship between sociodemographic factors of community residents and their potential accessibility to those community pharmacies. A mixed geographically weighted regression analysis revealed that census block groups with higher median household income tend to have less accessibility to pharmacies that sell addictive products. Relationships between Latino population and those pharmacies are mixed. No significant relationship was found for African American population.
KW - Accessibility measure
KW - Community pharmacies
KW - Geographic information systems
KW - Geographically weighted regression
KW - Potentially addictive products
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84897022941&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/15481603.2014.886457
DO - 10.1080/15481603.2014.886457
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84897022941
SN - 1548-1603
VL - 51
SP - 99
EP - 113
JO - GIScience and Remote Sensing
JF - GIScience and Remote Sensing
IS - 1
ER -