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- Urinary Levels of Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals and Breast Density in Young Women
- Reflections on the current status of psychiatric epidemiology and public mental health
- Daily Factors Associated with Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence Among Young Latino Sexual Minority Men with HIV: A 28-Day Daily Diary Study
- Cancers missed, women dismissed yet persist: natural language processing of online forums
- Obesity and its associations with autonomic and cognitive functions in the general population
- Investigating Social Network Peer Effects on HIV Care Engagement Using a Fuzzy-Like Matching Approach: Cross-Sectional Secondary Analysis of the N2 Cohort Study
- Recall bias secondary to major trauma: results from a prospective study of the Beirut Port Blast
- Gestational weight gain, cardiometabolic health, and long-term weight retention at 17 years post delivery
- Maternal Immune-Mediated Conditions and ADHD Risk in Offspring
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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