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PubMed Feed- Application of Innovation Tournament methodology to inform de-implementation strategies: lessons learned in addressing mammography overscreening in older women
- A <em>Cautionary Tale</em> on Integrating Studies with Disparate Outcome Measures for Causal Inference
- Longitudinal Transitions between Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms and Associations with Substance Use among US Young Adults, 2016-2023
- On the cross-generational expression of psychiatric disorders: Commentary on Caspi et al. (2026)
- Riesz Representers for the Rest of Us
- Restrictive abortion policy climate is associated with increased depression symptoms among women in the United States: Findings from a 25-year longitudinal study
- Adrenarche Is Not Pubarche-Time to Stop Conflating Terms
- Unequal paths to care: How region, rurality, and deprivation determine transport to verified trauma centers among the critically injured
- Food insecurity as an underexplored pathway linking ethnic enclave contexts and anxiety among Dominicans in the United States
- Sleep Duration Among US Adolescents, 1991-2023
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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
Info-Graphic: Disparities in Health Behaviors and Conditions in NYC
We have been mining the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Community Health Survey data to create a series of info-graphic documenting disparities in health behaviors and conditions by race/ethnicity, educational attainment, income and neighborhood poverty rate. Thus … Continue reading
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Anxious? Depressed? You might be suffering from capitalism: contradictory class locations and the prevalence of depression and anxiety in the USA
New work in the journal Sociology of Health and Illness by Seth Prins, a Doctoral Student in Epidemiology, and Cluster faculty, Lisa Bates and Katherine Keyes, explores how social class may influence depression and anxiety in ways that are not explained by … Continue reading
Info-Graphic: Obesity and Changes in the Food Environment
Coincidental with the NY Times article this morning on food companies funding scientific research and advocacy to shift the focus of obesity prevention to physical activity, this weekend we posted a slide deck of info-graphix on obesity and changes in the … Continue reading
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Public Health in the Precision-Medicine Era
There is a important New England Journal of Medicine perspectives article by The Mailman School’s Ron Bayer and Boston University’s Sandro Galea on the tension between the drive to develop “precision-medicine” clinical interventions and the critical role of public health in … Continue reading
The Mass Incarceration Mix on Social Epi Radio
As a companion to the Mass Incarceration Info-Graphic we have posted a three-hour mix of songs, anchored by tracks from Angela Davis’ spoken word album “The Prison Industrial Complex”. The mix reflects how themes of incarceration, policing and drug sentencing … Continue reading
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Mass Incarceration Info-Graphix
We just released a comprehensive PowerPoint slide deck on Mass Incarceration statistics, please feel free to use these slides. Since most people sent to prison are eventually released, and most “corrections” actually happens in the community through parole and probation, it’s … Continue reading
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Changes in Food Prices
The USDA Economic Research Service just released interesting data and analyses on changes in inflation-adjusted food prices from 1985 to 2014. The price of fresh fruit and vegetables has increased and the price of fats and oils and sugar and sweets … Continue reading
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Social Epidemiology Soundtracks
Under the new “Social Epi Radio” menu tab we will start posting thematically curated music collections. Not so much “radio on the internet” but Spotify playlists that will load the Spotify app and start playing our list. Artists in popular … Continue reading
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Finding Double Happiness: New Work on Marriage Outcomes in China for Individuals with Psychosis
A new paper from Lawrence Yang, Michael Phillips, and Xianyun Li entitled “Marriage outcome and relationship with urban versus rural context for individuals with psychosis in a population-based study in China.” was just published in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. Social … Continue reading
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