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Area of Science:

  • Public Health
  • Urban Health
  • Spatial Epidemiology

Background:

  • Urban cores exhibit significant disparities in wealth, income, and health outcomes, particularly mental well-being.
  • Dense urban environments may exacerbate variations in depressive disorder outcomes due to socioeconomic and health differences.
  • Further research is needed to understand public health factors influencing depression in urban centers.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the spatial distribution of depression incidence in Manhattan.
  • To identify public health and economic factors associated with depression rates.
  • To analyze spatial autocorrelation and identify clusters of high and low depression incidence.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized 2020 public health data from the CDC's PLACES project for Manhattan census tracts.
  • Employed generalized linear regression (GLR) and geographically weighted regression (GWR) to model depression rates.
  • Applied Getis-Ord Gi* and Anselin Local Moran's I for spatial cluster and autocorrelation analysis.

Main Results:

  • Identified depression hot spot clusters in Upper and Lower Manhattan, and cold spots in central and southern Manhattan.
  • Lack of health insurance and frequent mental distress were significant predictors of depression (adjusted R²=0.56).
  • Observed spatial inversions: higher insurance-related coefficients in Upper Manhattan and mental distress coefficients in Lower Manhattan.

Conclusions:

  • Depression incidence in Manhattan spatially correlates with key health and economic indicators.
  • Urban policies should address mental distress burdens and investigate observed spatial parameter inversions.
  • Findings underscore the importance of spatial analysis in understanding urban mental health disparities.