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- Social support and intimate partner violence in rural Pakistan: a longitudinal investigation of the bi-directional relationship
- Overflowing Disparities: Examining the Availability of Litter Bins in New York City
- In New York City, pandemic policing reproduced familiar patterns of racial disparities
- The COVID-19 Pandemic as a Threat Multiplier for Childhood Health Disparities: Evidence from St. Louis, MO
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- Correction : Epidemiology and outcomes of early-onset AKI in COVID-19-related ARDS in comparison with non-COVID-19-related ARDS: insights from two prospective global cohort studies
- Suicide Following the COVID-19 Pandemic Outbreak: Variation Across Place, Over Time, and Across Sociodemographic Groups. A Systematic Integrative Review
- Investigating a Paradox: Towards Better Understanding the Relationships Between Racial Group Membership, Stress, and Major Depressive Disorder
- Social, educational, and psychological health correlates of e-cigarette and combustible cigarette use among adolescents in the US from 2015 to 2021
- Spring is associated with increased total and allergenic fungal concentrations in house dust from a pediatric asthma cohort in New York City
- Breast cancer risk prediction combining a convolutional neural network-based mammographic evaluation with clinical factors
- Standards in responsibly sharing cohort data for transparency and reproducibility: response to the Young Lives Study
- Nicotine Vaping and Co-occurring Substance Use Among Adolescents in the United States from 2017-2019
- Changing adolescent activity patterns and the correlation of self-esteem and externalizing mental health symptoms across time: results from the USA from 1991 through 2020
- Epidemiologic Trends and Risk Factors Associated with the Decline in Mortality from Coronary Heart Disease in the United States, 1990-2019
Category Archives: Obesity
COVID-19 Related School Closings and Risk of Weight Gain Among Children.
Andrew Rundle and colleagues wrote a Perspective article for The Obesity Society’s journal Obesity, to call attention to the COVID-19 pandemic’s likely longer-term effect on children’s health. In many areas of the U.S., the COVID-19 pandemic has closed schools and … Continue reading
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Webinar – Urban Informatics: Studying How Urban Design Influences Health in New York City
On Thursday March 2nd at 3pm EST, Dr. Rundle will give a webinar entitled “Urban Informatics: Studying How Urban Design Influences Health in New York City” for the International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. You can register for … Continue reading
Posted in Neighborhood Environments, Obesity, Physical Activity
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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
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