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PubMed Feed- Partner incarceration, maternal substance use, and the mediating role of social support: A longitudinal analysis using the future of families and child wellbeing study
- Establishing registry-based mental health research in Latin America
- Adverse childhood experiences among black sexually minoritized men and Black transgender women in Chicago
- Disadvantaged groups have greater spatial access to pharmacies in New York state
- Direct potable reuse and birth defects prevalence in Texas: An augmented synthetic control method analysis of data from a population-based birth defects registry
- Screening mammography frequency following dense breast notification among a predominantly Hispanic/Latina screening cohort
- Neighborhood violent crime exposure is associated with PrEP non-use among black sexually minoritized men and transgender women: A GPS Study
- Police Harassment and Psychiatric, Sexual, and Substance Use Risk Among Black Sexual Minority Men and Black Transgender Women in the HIV Prevention Trials 061 Cohort
- Interstate Highway Connections and Traced Gun Transfers Between the 48 Contiguous United States
- Population Neuroscience: Understanding Concepts of Generalizability and Transportability and Their Application to Improving the Public's Health
Category Archives: Environmental Justice
Overflowing Disparities: Examining the Availability of Litter Bins in New York City
The 1980s marked the birth of the modern environmental justice movements thanks to civil rights activists’ concerns about the disproportionate placements of landfills in low-income and Black communities. (see our Environmental Justice Spotify playlist here) Similar environmental injustice concerns are … Continue reading
Criminogenic or criminalized? Testing an assumption for expanding criminogenic risk assessment.
Proponents of criminogenic risk assessment and algorithmic prediction for criminal recidivism have called for its widespread expansion throughout the criminal justice system, including for setting bail, pre-trial detention decisions, sentencing, and even policing. Its success in predicting recidivism is taken … Continue reading
Analyzing Mixtures of Environmental Contaminants
It has long been understood that the burden of environmental pollution is disproportionately felt in certain neighborhoods, particularly low-income or minority neighborhoods. In the 1980’s the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) described Environmental Justice as the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all … Continue reading
Environmental Justice: Social Disparities in Exposures to Environmental Pollutants
Location, location, location. Anyone who has been in the real estate market knows that location is one of the most important factors in determining property value. But, a large body of evidence indicates that property value is not the only … Continue reading
Music about the Environment
We just posted a mix of songs on environmental issues to the Social Epi Radio section of our website. The National Institute of Environmental Health (NIEHS) states that environmental factors are fundamental determinants of health and well-being. Researchers and activists have … Continue reading