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PubMed Feed- Household Food Security and Consumption of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages among New York City (NYC) Children: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of 2017 NYC Kids' Data
- Common Data Elements for Disorders of Consciousness: Recommendations from the Working Group on Physiology and Big Data
- Longitudinal relationships among exclusionary school discipline, adolescent substance use, and adult arrest: Public health implications of the school-to-prison pipeline
- Sleep deprivation and suicide risk among minoritized US adolescents
- Determinants of Hispanic and non-Hispanic Workers' Intent to Work Past Age 65: An Analysis From the Life Course Perspective
- Persistence of anxiety among Asian Americans: racial and ethnic heterogeneity in the longitudinal trends in mental well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic
- A randomized control trial to support smoke-free policy compliance in public housing
- Seasonal Variation of Use of Common Psychedelics and Party Drugs Among Nightclub/Festival Attendees in New York City
- The Creation of a Multidomain Neighborhood Environmental Vulnerability Index Across New York City
- Associations between police harassment and distrust in and reduced access to healthcare among Black sexual minority men: A longitudinal analysis of HPTN 061
Category Archives: Mental Health
The politics of depression: Associations between political beliefs and adolescent mental health
In a manuscript recently published in SSM Mental Health, Catherine Gimbrone and colleagues investigated the role that political beliefs play in shaping adolescent psychological wellbeing. After decades of relative stability, adolescent mental health has sharply declined over the past decade, … Continue reading
“Black men loving Black men is the revolutionary act”1: Racial sexual exclusivity as both an effect and a protection against discrimination for Black sexual minority men
Often in public health, sexual relationships between Black gay, bisexual, and other sexual minority men (SMM) are framed as sources of risk and disease, especially in terms of HIV transmission. However, Black queer activists have long known that cultivating loving … Continue reading
Posted in Depression, Ethnicity, Health Disparities, Mental Health, Race, Racism, Social Networks
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Mental illness, drinking, and the social division and structure of labor in the United States: 2003-2015
New research by Seth Prins, Sarah McKetta, Jonathan Platt, Carles Muntaner, Kerry Keyes, and Lisa Bates shows the ways that the social division and structure of labor are associated with mental illness and drinking. Their work was published online in … Continue reading
Posted in Alcohol, Gender, Health Disparities, Mental Health, Occupation
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Business travel and behavioral and mental health
In new work, Rundle and colleagues find that extensive business travel is associated with poorer behavioral and mental health – smoking, sedentary behavior, trouble sleeping, alcohol dependence, depression and anxiety. The paper was recently published online at the Journal of Occupational … Continue reading
Recent Social Epi Research Papers
In a recent paper in the journal Injury Epidemiology Keyes and colleagues applied age-period-cohort analyses to data on fatal motorcycle crashes in the Fatality Analysis Reporting System data and found that baby-boomers have experienced significantly higher mortality from motorcycle crashes than … Continue reading
Stigma toward mental illness in Latin America and the Caribbean
Larry Yang and colleagues recently published a systematic review of studies describing stigma toward mental illness in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Declaration of Caracas in 1990 implemented a number of mental health reforms in countries of the region … Continue reading
Posted in Mental Health, Stigma
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Who are smokers today? Implications for public health and research
Kerry Keyes and colleagues recently published a new article looking at changes in the relationship between smoking and psychiatric disorders across successive birth cohorts in the twentieth century. They find that as rates of smoking decreased through the latter half … Continue reading
Posted in Anxiety, Depression, Mental Health, Smoking
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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
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