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PubMed Feed- 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
- Determinants of Hispanic and non-Hispanic Workers' Intent to Work Past Age 65: An Analysis From the Life Course Perspective
- Sleep deprivation and suicide risk among minoritized US adolescents
- 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
- Associations between police harassment and distrust in and reduced access to healthcare among Black sexual minority men: A longitudinal analysis of HPTN 061
- The Creation of a Multidomain Neighborhood Environmental Vulnerability Index Across New York City
- Towards a youth mental health paradigm: a perspective and roadmap
Category Archives: Methods
Maintaining patient privacy while geocoding patient addresses: Do Not Use R to Geocode!
Imagine if a clinical researcher were to disclose a list of patient addresses to a third-party – government agency, for profit company or not-for-profit entity – that was outside of their hospital or health system. Imagine the researcher then publicly … Continue reading
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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
Posted in Gender, Health Care, Health Insurance, Methods, Occupation
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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
Measuring Neighborhood Physical Disorder: Man on the Street verses Google Street View
Following is a post by Steve Mooney on a recently published paper. Dr. Mooney is an alum of the Doctoral Program in Epidemiology and the Social Epi Cluster. We’ve done a lot with Street View at the Built Environment and Health … Continue reading
Steve Mooney receives Poster Award at Epidemiology Congress of the Americas 2016
Steve Mooney, one of our recently minted PhD’s, won a best poster presentation award at the 2016 Epidemiology Congress of the Americas for his work on the “Neighborhood Environment-Wide Association Study” design. New spatial tools and the expanding availability of … Continue reading
Launching EpiSimulations.net
Cluster Doctoral students, Andrew Ratanatharathorn and Stephen Mooney and Cluster Faculty member, Andrew Rundle, recently launched EpiSimulations.net, a suite of tools for demonstrating and modeling methodological issues in epidemiology. The site uses R Shiny to create interactive simulations that allow … Continue reading
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