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PubMed Feed- Trends in Prevalence of Cannabis Use Disorder Among U.S. Veterans With and Without Psychiatric Disorders Between 2005 and 2019
- An evolutionary perspective on complex neuropsychiatric disease
- Has the opening of Amazon fulfillment centers affected demand for disability insurance?
- Church Closings Were Associated with Higher COVID-19 Infection Rates: Implications for Community Health Equity
- Maternal early pregnancy body mass index and bipolar disorder in the offspring
- Behavioral Outcomes and Neurodevelopmental Disorders Among Children of Women With Epilepsy
- ASO Visual Abstract: Robot-Assisted Surgery and Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Post-prostatectomy Outcomes Among Prostate Cancer Patients
- Diabetes status and postoperative complications for patients receiving open rotator cuff repair
- Independent and joint contributions of physical disability and chronic pain to incident opioid use disorder and opioid overdose among Medicaid patients
- Overamped: Stimulant Use and HIV Pathogenesis
Category Archives: Neighborhood Disadvantage
How neighborhoods and infrastructure can impact HIV transmission among Black sexual minority men
Individual risky behaviors (ex. condomless sex, multiple partners, drug use) have long been a focus of HIV research and intervention strategies for sexual minority men (SMM). However, focusing on the individual level obscures the effects of broader societal influences and … Continue reading
Neighborhood Disadvantage and Falls Among Older Adults
Using data from the University of Alabama at Birmingham Study of Aging, Rundle and colleagues recently published research showing that higher neighborhood disadvantage is associated with risk of falls among community dwelling older adults. In the first six months of … Continue reading
A Mosquito’s Eye View of Rio das Pedras, Brazil using Mobile Image Collection
In Brazil, residents of informal communities are disproportionately affected by the Zika epidemic and ongoing threats from other mosquito-borne illnesses. Underdeveloped sanitation systems and poorly maintained streets are some of the many factors that contribute to mosquito reproduction and increase … 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
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
In the Wrong Place with the Wrong SNP
Social Epi Cluster members Stephen Mooney and Gina Lovasi recently led an investigation into neighborhood and genetic contributions to cardiac arrest risk, finding that about 75% more cardiac arrest cases who had a high-risk genetic variant lived in socioeconomically deprived … Continue reading
Neighborhood Social Environment and Obesity
Numerous studies have examined the relation between features of the neighborhood built environment and obesity related behaviors or obesity itself, to the extent that Healthy People 2020 includes goals for neighborhood built environment interventions to support physical activity. The neighborhood … Continue reading
Exploring How Residents of NYC Use Neighborhood Spaces
The Built Environment and Health team (including Cluster members Lovasi and Rundle) just published a paper in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine showing that differences in urban design in New York City (NYC) are associated with how residents utilize their residential neighborhood … Continue reading
Throwback Thursday: Neighborhood Income and DNA Damage from Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Prostate Tissue.
Throwback Thursday posts will revisit previously published articles and provide results of additional analyses that didn’t fit within the Journal’s word limits or re-imagine how the underlying data in the paper can be presented graphically. “Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status Modifies the … 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