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PubMed Feed- Association of extreme heat events with sleep and cardiovascular health: a scoping review
- How do restrictions on opioid prescribing, harm reduction, and treatment coverage policies relate to opioid overdose deaths in the United States in 2013-2020? An application of a new state opioid policy scale
- The Contribution of Adverse Childhood Experiences and Neighborhood Characteristics on Outcomes Experienced by Urban Dwelling Black Men After Serious Traumatic Injury
- Assessing Links Between Alcohol Exposure and Firearm Violence: A Scoping Review Update
- Prenatal exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, reduced hippocampal subfield volumes, and word reading
- The role of the hippocampus in working memory and word reading: Novel neural correlates of reading among youth living in the context of economic disadvantage
- The relationship of medical and recreational cannabis laws with opioid misuse and opioid use disorder in the USA: Does it depend on prior history of cannabis use?
- Testing the mediating mechanism of alcohol use on the association between retirement and depressive symptoms in the United States using generalized mixed effect models
- Early intervention in psychosis programs in Africa, Asia and Latin America; challenges and recommendations
- Evidence for Public Policies to Prevent Suicide Death in the United States
Category Archives: Spatial Analysis
In New York City, pandemic policing reproduced familiar patterns of racial disparities
In the past month, New York City has rolled back most of the public health mandates first put in place to control the spread of COVID-19 in early 2020, such as social distancing and mask wearing mandates. Now, new research … Continue reading
Ridesharing is Associated with Assaults around Bars in NYC
Ridesharing companies such as Uber and Lyft have completed more than 20 billion rides globally since 2010. Studies have found that this change to transportation systems has affected health outcomes, including alcohol consumption and motor vehicle crashes. In research recently … Continue reading
Rideshare Trips and Alcohol-Involved Motor Vehicle Crashes in Chicago
Morrison and colleagues recently published a paper reporting on a case-case analysis of rideshare activity near alcohol-involved and non-alcohol-involved car crashes in Chicago. The observed higher level of rideshare activity near crashes that did not involve alcohol suggests that ridesharing … Continue reading
Posted in Alcohol, Alcohol Consumption, Injury, Spatial Analysis
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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
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
Updated: County Level Estimates of Highly Stressed Health Care Systems
The Built Environmental and Health Research Group’s online mapping tool has been updated with new data showing counties that are at high risk of experiencing patient volumes that exceed their hospital capacity over the next 6 weeks. The maps show at risk … Continue reading
Posted in COVID-19, Health Care, Health Disparities, Mapping, Spatial Analysis
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Estimated ICU Beds Available to Respond to Patient Surges
Social and Spatial Epidemiology Unit members Charles Branas and Andrew Rundle, along with colleagues from Patient Insight, the Mount Sinai Health System and MIT, have created estimates of the number of hospital critical care beds, including ICU beds and other … Continue reading
Posted in Health Care, Health Disparities, Mapping, Spatial Analysis
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Mapping Populations at Risk for Severe COVID-19, continued
The Built Environment and Health Research Group’s geographer extraordinaire, James Quinn, built a new version of their interactive mapping tool for severe COVID-19. The map depicts populations at high risk of severe COVID-19 due to older age or underlying health … Continue reading
Documenting the Iron Pipeline: The flow of guns around America
On Saturday May 2, 2015, Detective 1st Grade Brian Moore of the New York Police Department was shot and killed in while on patrol in Hollis, Queens. Moore’s partner, Eric Jansen, was also shot but was not seriously injured. In … Continue reading
Posted in Injury, Mapping, Spatial Analysis
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