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- Overflowing Disparities: Examining the Availability of Litter Bins in New York City
- In New York City, pandemic policing reproduced familiar patterns of racial disparities
- The COVID-19 Pandemic as a Threat Multiplier for Childhood Health Disparities: Evidence from St. Louis, MO
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- Firearms as a Market-Driven Epidemic: Potential Pathways to Reduce Preventable Firearm-Related Harm in the United States
- The Impact of Indirect Transport to a Trauma Centre on Survival for Major Trauma Patients: A National Propensity-Adjusted Observational Study
- The Dual Burden of Weight in YMSM: Structural Inequities and Body Image Pressures
- Perinatal depression and breastfeeding: a longitudinal investigation of the bidirectional relationship in Pakistan
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- Adverse sequelae of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental healthcare in six low- and middle-income countries (MASC): a mixed-methods study with lessons for the future
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Mapping Widget for Populations At Risk for Severe COVID-19
The team at PolicyMap.com created a widget for us to dispaly interactive maps showing the locations of populations at risk of severe COVID-19. The at risk populations we mapped are: the number of people 65 years and older; number of … Continue reading
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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
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City footprints and motor vehicle crashes
Cities around the world differ on countless dimensions. The glow of a sunset. The smell of a sea breeze. The gritty air from a thousand industrial chimneys. The hum of people and animals and machines and elements. As far as … Continue reading
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Heavy and binge alcohol drinking and parenting status in the United States from 2006 to 2018
Social and Spatial Epidemiology Unit members Sarah McKetta and Katherine Keyes recently published research in PloS Medicine regarding national trends in binge and heavy drinking. A wave of recent media attention has raised alarms that women with children are drinking … Continue reading
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Moving through the City: Understanding the neighborhoods transgender women live and socialize in.
Geospatial research can help scientists and public health officials better understand a diverse range of health risks and outcomes. In their recent paper published in Geospatial Health, however, Columbia’s Spatial Epidemiology Lab (led by Dustin Duncan) points out that the … 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
Body Mass Index across the Life-Course: Emergence of Race by Sex Disparities in Early Childhood.
In the U.S. 35% of adults aged 20 years or older are obese and the obesity epidemic represents a critical public health issue. There are marked disparities in body mass index (BMI) and obesity prevalence by race/ethnicity and sex. Among … Continue reading
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“You probably can’t feel as safe as normal women”: Hispanic women’s reactions to breast density notification
A new qualitative study by Alsacia Pacsi-Sepulveda, Rachel Shelton, Carmen Rodriguez, Arielle Coq, and Parisa Tehranifar that explored the understanding of, and reactions to, New York State’s breast density notification language was recently published in the journal Cancer. In 2013, … Continue reading
Neighborhood Health Effects: Does The Way We Define “Neighborhood” Alter the Effect?
There are many different ways that aspects of the social and physical environment can affect a person’s health. For example, body mass index and chronic disease are associated with the walkability of the area where a person lives. Spending more … Continue reading