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PubMed Feed- Dear Pandemic: A topic modeling analysis of COVID-19 information needs among readers of an online science communication campaign
- Attainment and loss of early social-communication skills across neurodevelopmental conditions in the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study
- Prevalence of and factors associated with late diagnosis of HIV in Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe: Results from population-based nationally representative surveys
- Changes in opioid and benzodiazepine poisoning deaths after cannabis legalization in the US: A county-level analysis, 2002-2020
- Trends in drug use among nightclub and festival attendees in New York City, 2017-2022
- Initial adaptation of the OnTrack coordinated specialty care model in Chile: An application of the Dynamic Adaptation Process
- Dead Labor: Mortality Inequities by Class, Gender, and Race/Ethnicity in the United States, 1986-2019
- Depression networks: a systematic review of the network paradigm causal assumptions
- Optimizing sobriety checkpoints to maximize public health benefits and minimize operational costs
- Hindcasts and forecasts of suicide mortality in US: A modeling study
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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