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PubMed Feed- Longitudinal internalizing psychopathology structure in a diverse community sample of Los Angeles adolescents from 9th to 12th grade
- Comment on "Do we need flexible machine-learning algorithms to assess the effect of long-term exposure to fine particulate matter on mortality?"
- The relationship between chronic air pollution exposure, neighborhood environmental vulnerability, and adverse COVID-19 morbidities among hospitalized New York City residents
- Child Abuse Exposure and Adult Sleep Continuity Disturbance, Sleep Duration, and Bedroom Safety
- Health insurance status and severe mpox disease outcomes among sexual minority men in NYC: a retrospective cohort study
- Maternal immune-mediated conditions and ADHD risk in offspring
- Project CLEAR (ChemicaL Exposure and Awareness Research): A protocol for assessing the availability and chemical composition of skin-lightening products in Northern Manhattan
- Opioid Dose, Duration, and Risk of Use Disorder in Medicaid Patients With Musculoskeletal Pain
- Association between police funding and community firearm violence incidence in 61 US cities, 2015-2022
- Perceived Access to Gender-Affirming Care, Completion of Gender-Affirming Medical Interventions, and Psychological Distress Among Transgender Women of Color: The TURNNT Cohort Study
Category Archives: Socioeconomic Status
Overflowing Disparities: Examining the Availability of Litter Bins in New York City
The 1980s marked the birth of the modern environmental justice movements thanks to civil rights activists’ concerns about the disproportionate placements of landfills in low-income and Black communities. (see our Environmental Justice Spotify playlist here) Similar environmental injustice concerns are … Continue reading
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
COVID-19 testing, case, and death rates and spatial socio-demographics in New York City
Social and Spatial Epidemiology Unit members, Byoungjun Kim, Andrew Rundle, Christopher Morrison, Charles Branas, and Dustin Duncan recently published research regarding neighborhood-level social and built environments as potential determinants of COVID-19 testing, case, and death rates in New York City. There is emerging … Continue reading
Trends in U.S. Women’s Binge Drinking in Middle Adulthood by Socioeconomic Status, 2006-2018
Cluster members Sarah McKetta and Katherine Keyes recently published research regarding national trends in binge drinking among women in the mid-life. Multiple national surveys have found that women in the mid-life (~30-49) have dramatically increased binge drinking in recent years. … Continue reading
Mapping Food Insecurity During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, 11% of households and nearly 16% of families with children were food insecure. With schools closed and families out of work, food insecurity rates are expected to skyrocket in the coming months. During the crisis, … Continue reading
Racial discrimination, socioeconomic position, and illicit drug use among US Blacks
A recent paper published in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology by Keyes, Fink and colleagues assesses the relationship between self-reported racial discrimination and illicit drug use among US Blacks and whether this association differs by socioeconomic position. Using data from the National … Continue reading
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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
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