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PubMed Feed- Establishing registry-based mental health research in Latin America
- Direct potable reuse and birth defects prevalence in Texas: An augmented synthetic control method analysis of data from a population-based birth defects registry
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Practical causal mediation analysis: extending nonparametric estimators to accommodate multiple mediators and multiple intermediate confounders
Category Archives: Health Care
Updated: County Level Estimates of Highly Stressed Health Care Systems
The Built Environmental and Health Research Group’s online mapping tool has been updated with new data showing counties that are at high risk of experiencing patient volumes that exceed their hospital capacity over the next 6 weeks. The maps show at risk … Continue reading
Posted in COVID-19, Health Care, Health Disparities, Mapping, Spatial Analysis
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County Level Estimates of When Hospital Capacity will be Overwhelmed
A multi-institution team led by Charles Branas, and including Andrew Rundle and staff from the Social and Spatial Epidemiology Unit, has been making county level estimates for the U.S. of the time until health systems are overwhelmed with patients. The … Continue reading
Posted in Health Care, Health Disparities, Mapping
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Estimated ICU Beds Available to Respond to Patient Surges
Social and Spatial Epidemiology Unit members Charles Branas and Andrew Rundle, along with colleagues from Patient Insight, the Mount Sinai Health System and MIT, have created estimates of the number of hospital critical care beds, including ICU beds and other … Continue reading
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Mapping Populations at Risk for Severe COVID-19, continued
The Built Environment and Health Research Group’s geographer extraordinaire, James Quinn, built a new version of their interactive mapping tool for severe COVID-19. The map depicts populations at high risk of severe COVID-19 due to older age or underlying health … Continue reading
At Risk Populations for Severe COVID-19
The Built Environment and Health Research Group has been creating maps showing where in the U.S. there are populations at high risk for severe COVID-19. By county, they mapped the number of people 65 years and older, 75 years and … Continue reading
Do employees receive recommended preventive health services?
Large numbers of Americans receive their health care through insurance and wellness plans sponsored by their employers. New work by Rundle and colleagues (full text here) describes a method that employers can use to analyze their medical claims data to … Continue reading
Posted in Gender, Health Care, Health Insurance, Methods, Occupation
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Hospital Financial Distress and Quality of Care
Catherine Richards, an alum of the Department of Epi’s Masters and Doctoral programs, and colleagues recently published an article in JAMA Surgery showing that women treated at hospitals experiencing financial distress were significantly less likely to receive immediate breast reconstruction surgery after … Continue reading
Posted in Economic, Health Care, Health Disparities, Health Insurance
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