Selected Publications

Amstislavski, P., Matthews, A., Sheffield, S., Maroko, A. R., & Weedon, J. (2012). Medication deserts: survey of neighborhood disparities in availability of prescription medications. International Journal of Health Geographics, 11 (48).
 
Maroko, A.R. (2012). Using air dispersion modeling and proximity analysis to assess chronic exposure to fine particulate matter and environmental justice in New York City. Applied Geography, 32, 533–547.
 
Maroko, A.R., Maantay, J.A., & Grady, K. (2011). Using Geovisualization and Geospatial Analysis to Explore Respiratory Disease and Environmental Health Justice in New York City. In J. A. Maantay & S. McClafferty (Eds.), Geospatial Analysis of Environmental Health (Vol. 4, pp. 39-66): Springer.
 
Lucan, S., Maroko, A.R., Shanker, R., & Jordan, W. (2011). Green Carts (Mobile Produce Vendors) in the Bronx - Optimally Positioned to Meet Neighborhood Fruit-and-Vegetable Needs? Journal of Urban Health, 1-5.
 
Miyake, K., Maroko, A. R., Maantay, J. A., & Grady, K. (2010). Not Just A Walk in the Park: methodological improvements for determining environmental justice implications of park access in New York City for the promotion of physical activity. Cities and the Environment, 3(1), 1-17.
 
Maantay, J.A., Maroko, A.R., and Culp, G. (2010). Using geographic information science to estimate vulnerable urban populations for flood hazard and risk assessment in New York City, in P. Showalter and Y. Lu (eds.), Geotechnical Contributions to Urban Hazard and Disaster Analysis. Springer-Verlag
 
Maantay, J. A., Maroko, A.R. (2009).  Asthma and air pollution in the Bronx: Using the Cadastral-based Expert Dasymetric System (CEDS) to improve population mapping and understanding the spatiality of disease in urban areas.  Journal of Urban Health (Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine), 86(3)
 
Maroko, A.R., Maantay, J.A., Sohler, N., Grady, K., Arno, P. (2009). The complexities of measuring access to parks and physical activity sites in New York City: a quantitative and qualitative approach. International Journal of Health Geographics, 34 (8): 1-24.
 
Maantay, J.A., Maroko, A.R., Alicea, C., and Strelnick, A. H. (2009). Geographic information systems, environmental justice, and health disparities: The need for an interdisciplinary approach to study asthma and air pollution in the Bronx, New York,  in Freudenberg, N., Saegert, S., and Klitzman, S. (eds.), Interdisciplinary Urban Health Research and Practice. Jossey-Bass: 93-119.
 
Maantay, J.A., Maroko, A.R., (2009).  Mapping urban risk: Flood hazards, race, & environmental justice in New York City, Applied Geography, 29 (1): 111-124.
 
Bernstein, S.L., Cabral, L., Maantay, J.A., Peprah, D., Lounsbury, D., Maroko, A.R., Murphy, M., Shelley, D. (2009). Disparities in Access to Over-the-Counter Nicotine Replacement Products in New York City Pharmacies. American Journal of Public Health 99 (9): 1699-1704.
 
Maantay, J.A., Tu, J., Maroko, A.R. (2009). Loose-coupling an air dispersion model and a geographic information system (GIS) for studying air pollution and asthma in the Bronx, New York City. International Journal of Environmental Health Research, 19 (1): 59-79
 
Maantay, J.A., Maroko, A.R., Porter-Morgan, H., (2008).  A New Method for Population Mapping and Understanding the Spatial Dynamics of Disease in Urban Areas, Urban Geography, 29 (7):724-738.
 
Maantay, J.A., Maroko, A.R., Herrmann, C. (2007). Mapping Population Distribution in the Urban Environment: The Cadastral-based Expert Dasymetric System (CEDS). Cartography & Geographic Information Science, 34 (2), 77-102