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PubMed Feed- Novel approach to the codesign of a tailored intervention bundle: applying theory with pragmatism
- 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
- Estrogen metabolites in premenopausal women living in China, Mongolia, and the United Kingdom
- Associations of social and genetic background variables to neuro-cognitive biomarkers of psychosis
- 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
- Cannabis Effects on Neurocognition and HIV-Related Outcomes: Protocol for a Longitudinal Observational Cohort Study
- Dispatch disparities: Neighborhood segregation as a predictor of EMS triage discordance among critically injured trauma patients
Category Archives: Health Disparities
Racial discrimination, socioeconomic position, and illicit drug use among US Blacks
A recent paper published in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology by Keyes, Fink and colleagues assesses the relationship between self-reported racial discrimination and illicit drug use among US Blacks and whether this association differs by socioeconomic position. Using data from the National … Continue reading
Posted in Health Disparities, Race, Racism, Socioeconomic Status
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Demand-Side Efficiency in Global Health
In a recent paper published in Health Policy and Planning, cluster faculty member Elizabeth Radin and her colleagues develop the concept of demand-side efficiency–or the efficiency with which health system users convert public health resources into health outcomes. They also propose methods … Continue reading
Posted in Ethnicity, Gender, Global Health, Health Disparities
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Neighborhood Social Environment Contributions to Supporting Walking
JAMA just published an editorial co-written by Cluster faculty member, Andrew Rundle, entitled “Can Walkable Urban Design Play a Role in Reducing the Incidence of Obesity-Related Conditions?”. The editorial provides a perspective on a study published in JAMA by Creatore … Continue reading
Stigma and the Etiology of Depression among the Obese
Current Social Epidemiology Cluster doctoral student Steve Mooney and former Cluster faculty member Abdulrahman El-Sayed recently published a paper in Social Science & Medicine showing that a weight-stigma mechanism could explain the finding that depression among the obese is more … 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
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
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
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