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- Addictive Screen Use Trajectories and Suicidal Behaviors, Suicidal Ideation, and Mental Health in US Youths
- Neighborhood environmental vulnerability factors strongly drove COVID-19 fatality and excess all-cause mortality in New York City, while long-term air pollutant associations were weak and varied
- Cannabis Legalization and Opioid Use Disorder in Veterans Health Administration Patients
- Composing authorship teams for health equity: an introduction to the health equity research production model
- Interaction Between <em>Apolipoprotein L1</em> Genetic Risk and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status for Kidney Outcomes in a United States Cohort
- The Effectiveness of Bubble-Blowing as a Distraction Technique During Pediatric Intravenous Cannulation: A Randomized Controlled Trial
- Measuring mobility in HIV research in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review
- Global tracking of marine megafauna space use reveals how to achieve conservation targets
- Stemming the Tide of the US Overdose Crisis: How Can We Leverage the Power of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence?
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