Author Archives: Andrew

Throwback Thursday: Neighborhood Income and DNA Damage from Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Prostate Tissue.

Throwback Thursday posts will revisit previously published articles and provide results of additional analyses that didn’t fit within the Journal’s word limits or re-imagine how the underlying data in the paper can be presented graphically. “Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status Modifies the … Continue reading

Posted in Neighborhood Disadvantage, Neighborhood Environments, Socioeconomic Status, Urban Health | Leave a comment

“Stress and the City” at the German House for Research and Innovation

Andrew Rundle will be speaking at the “Stress and the City” event at the German House for Research and Innovation at the United Nations Plaza.  The event is November 2nd from 6:30 to 8:30 and they would like an RSVP.  The … Continue reading

Posted in Event, Urban Health | Leave a comment

Measuring the Ecosystem of Business and Retail Establishments

Gina Lovasi and colleagues just published a manuscript detailing work to clean and code data on all NYC metropolitan area businesses over the period 1990-2010.  Their goal was to use twenty years of business establishment data to characterize changes in neighborhoods … Continue reading

Posted in Economic, Neighborhood Environments | Leave a comment

New Work on Stigma Among Those Labeled “At-Risk” for Psychosis

Cluster faculty member, Lawrence Yang and colleagues, just completed the first study to compare the stigmatizing effects of symptoms of schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders to the stigmatizing effects of being labelled “at-risk” for these conditions and seeking help at … Continue reading

Posted in Labelling, Mental Health, Stigma | Leave a comment

Info-Graphix: Health Disparities in NYC

We just posted the beginnings of a new slide deck that shows disparities in health conditions by education level among residents of New York City.  The NYCHANES data were mined to plot the prevalence of Hypertension, Diabetes and Hyper-cholestriamia by … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

A New Project to Study Childhood Adversity and Cardiovascular Health in Puerto Rican Young Adults

Cluster faculty member Shakira Suglia was recently awarded an NIH grant to study the effects of childhood adversity on health outcomes among young Puerto Rican adults from the South Bronx and from San Juan, Puerto Rico.   While these two groups of … Continue reading

Posted in Childhood Adversity, Ethnicity | Leave a comment

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

Posted in Economic, Environmental Justice, Health Disparities, Neighborhood Disadvantage, Socioeconomic Status | Leave a comment

Info-Graphic: Mortality Attributable to Social Factors

We just posted a graph using data from Galea 2011 and Minino 2002 to compare deaths attributable to social factors verses listed “causes” of death in 2000.  The data show that deaths attributable to social factors are similar in number to deaths … Continue reading

Posted in Neighborhood Disadvantage, Racial Segregation, Socioeconomic Status | Leave a comment

Why are kids reporting that they prefer more dangerous and risky activities than they did 30 years ago?

Katherine Keyes weighs in on her latest paper describing 30 year trends in adolescent risk preference. The graph below shows the yearly trend in a trait termed ‘risk preference’, spanning the last 30 years among adolescents in the United States. … Continue reading

Posted in Gender, Risk Preference | 1 Comment

Health Insurance and Access to Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the greatest contributor to morbidity and mortality in low- and middle-income countries, and these diseases are disproportionately experienced by those in the most disadvantaged circumstances.  In line with initiatives to “close the gap” on several health … Continue reading

Posted in Economic, Health Disparities, Health Insurance, Socioeconomic Status | Leave a comment