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Within-City Average Life Expectancy “Gaps”: A Useful Health Equity Metric
Within-City Average Life Expectancy “Gaps”: A Useful Health Equity Metric
We characterize within-city life expectancy gaps and their correlation with social and environmental characteristics in 94...
Physical Health Challenges, Healthcare Needs, and Barriers to Care among Firearm Injury Survivors: A Mixed Methods Analysis
Physical Health Challenges, Healthcare Needs, and Barriers to Care among Firearm Injury Survivors: A Mixed Methods Analysis
Firearm injury survivors often face significant physical, mental, and logistical challenges following their injury, yet re...
Sexual Violence against Women Experiencing Homelessness: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Sexual Violence against Women Experiencing Homelessness: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
The proportion of women experiencing homelessness is increasing, a phenomenon often referred to as the feminization of hom...
The Impact of Neighbours and Neighbourhoods on Major Depressive Disorders in Adults
The Impact of Neighbours and Neighbourhoods on Major Depressive Disorders in Adults
Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is a significant global health concern, yet the influence of social interactions among ind...
Urban Foodscape in Transition: Spatiotemporal Characteristics in Healthy and Unhealthy Food Outlets and Socioeconomic Disparities in Wuhan During 2012–2022
Urban Foodscape in Transition: Spatiotemporal Characteristics in Healthy and Unhealthy Food Outlets and Socioeconomic Disparities in Wuhan During 2012–2022
Improving healthy food access is one of the most effective strategies to promote healthy eating. However, few studies exam...
Help-Seeking Patterns during Weather Events: 2-1-1 Service Calls among Service-Connected Unhoused Populations in Louisiana from 2014 to 2023
Help-Seeking Patterns during Weather Events: 2-1-1 Service Calls among Service-Connected Unhoused Populations in Louisiana from 2014 to 2023
The 2-1-1 information and referral system connects vulnerable populations to essential services during public health emerg...
Dwelling Form and Heat-Related Well-Being in a Semi-Arid City: A Cross-Sectional Survey of Apartment and Detached-House Residents in Irbid, Jordan
Dwelling Form and Heat-Related Well-Being in a Semi-Arid City: A Cross-Sectional Survey of Apartment and Detached-House Residents in Irbid, Jordan
Rising heat-wave frequency and strong urban-heat-island (UHI) effects threaten thermal comfort and health in Jordan’...
School-Based Health Centers and Use of Effective Contraception among Sexually Active Female Teens in NYC Public High Schools
School-Based Health Centers and Use of Effective Contraception among Sexually Active Female Teens in NYC Public High Schools
The goal of the School-Based Health Center (SBHC) Reproductive Health Project (RHP) was to increase access to effective me...
Structural Vulnerability and Police Interaction among Women Who Use Drugs amid De Facto Decriminalization in Baltimore, Maryland
Structural Vulnerability and Police Interaction among Women Who Use Drugs amid De Facto Decriminalization in Baltimore, Maryland
Exposure to criminal-legal systems, including policing, arrest, and incarceration, has deleterious effects on access to he...
Weather-Related Trends in Drug Use Incidents Aboard Transit Vehicles
Weather-Related Trends in Drug Use Incidents Aboard Transit Vehicles
With changing trends in drug misuse in the United States, including the increased prominence of fentanyl misuse, transit o...
Asbestos Poverty as a New Paradigm for Multidimensional Urban Sustainability
Asbestos Poverty as a New Paradigm for Multidimensional Urban Sustainability
The popularity of asbestos-containing products stemmed from their fire resistance, thermal insulation properties, and mech...
Redlining, Community Wealth, and Air Pollution: A Tale of Three Cities—Boston, Nashville, and Detroit
Redlining, Community Wealth, and Air Pollution: A Tale of Three Cities—Boston, Nashville, and Detroit
Despite US air quality improvements since the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments, disparities in air pollution between communit...
Neighborhood Physical Disinvestment and Incident Diabetes between visits 1 and 2 of the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL)
Neighborhood Physical Disinvestment and Incident Diabetes between visits 1 and 2 of the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL)
Neighborhood-scale environmental factors, including disinvestment in infrastructure, may impact cardiometabolic disease ri...
Environmental Risk and Adverse Perinatal Health Indicators in New York City: A Geospatial Hotspot Analysis
Environmental Risk and Adverse Perinatal Health Indicators in New York City: A Geospatial Hotspot Analysis
Environmental exposures can have adverse associations with perinatal health and birth outcomes. This study aimed to identi...
A Multicenter Qualitative Stakeholder Evaluation of the Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Programs in the Los Angeles County Safety-Net Healthcare System
A Multicenter Qualitative Stakeholder Evaluation of the Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Programs in the Los Angeles County Safety-Net Healthcare System
Violent injury is a leading cause of death and non-fatal injury among individuals aged 5 to 35 in the USA, with reinjury r...
The Dynamic Relationship Between Objective and Subjective Housing Affordability and Mental Health
The Dynamic Relationship Between Objective and Subjective Housing Affordability and Mental Health
This study explored how housing affordability is associated with mental health by focusing on the moderating role of subje...
The Influence of Urban Context on Emotions and Bodily Responses During Walking
The Influence of Urban Context on Emotions and Bodily Responses During Walking
Urban walking offers a unique lens to understand how environmental conditions affect human well-being through both percept...
A Computational Approach to Analyzing Spatiotemporal Trends in Gun Violence and Mental Health Disparities among Racialized Communities in US Metropolitan Areas
A Computational Approach to Analyzing Spatiotemporal Trends in Gun Violence and Mental Health Disparities among Racialized Communities in US Metropolitan Areas
Gun violence is a leading cause of death and injuries in the USA, adversely affecting physical and mental health among its...
County-Level COVID-19 Policy Comprehensiveness and Adult Behavioral Health during 2021
County-Level COVID-19 Policy Comprehensiveness and Adult Behavioral Health during 2021
Epidemiologic research has found worsening behavioral health in the USA since 2020. Local policies may have contributed to...
Built Environment Change over Time Using Google Street View Assessments of Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL) Cities
Built Environment Change over Time Using Google Street View Assessments of Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL) Cities
Google Street View’s historical imagery is a promising data source for measuring neighborhood conditions over time. ...
The Association of Exposure to Urban Greenspace and Depression in Women
The Association of Exposure to Urban Greenspace and Depression in Women
Exposure to greenspace has been linked to reductions in depression symptoms; however, limited research has examined how th...
Spatiotemporal Analysis of Fentanyl-Associated Overdose Deaths in Chicago, IL, USA
Spatiotemporal Analysis of Fentanyl-Associated Overdose Deaths in Chicago, IL, USA
Overdose deaths involving fentanyl represent a major public health crisis in the USA. This study investigates the spatiote...
Programmatic, Environmental, and Temporal Predictors of Violence, Overdose, and Self-Injury in Homeless Shelters in Toronto, Canada, 2012–2021
Programmatic, Environmental, and Temporal Predictors of Violence, Overdose, and Self-Injury in Homeless Shelters in Toronto, Canada, 2012–2021
People experiencing homelessness have high rates of violent victimization, overdose, suicidality, and non-suicidal self-in...
The Price of Denial: Examining the Health Consequences of Mortgage Lending Bias in Michigan Metro Areas
The Price of Denial: Examining the Health Consequences of Mortgage Lending Bias in Michigan Metro Areas
Anti-Black mortgage lending discrimination (MLD) has resulted in homeownership disparities among White and Black household...
Moderating Effects of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit on Associations Between Race and Elevated Blood Pressure in Chicago
Moderating Effects of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit on Associations Between Race and Elevated Blood Pressure in Chicago
While there is growing awareness of discriminatory housing policies and their adverse impacts on health, little is known a...
Using Wastewater to Monitor Suggested Changes in Dietary Intake: A Participatory Experiment
Using Wastewater to Monitor Suggested Changes in Dietary Intake: A Participatory Experiment
This study aimed to assess the feasibility of a participatory experiment involving residents of a Paris district, in which...
Impact of Urban Green on Population Health in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Scoping Review
Impact of Urban Green on Population Health in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Scoping Review
Sub-Saharan Africa’s (SSA) rapid urbanization and climate change have resulted in habitat loss, deforestation, and r...
Urban Agriculture Interventions in Refugee and Immigrant Communities: A Scoping Review
Urban Agriculture Interventions in Refugee and Immigrant Communities: A Scoping Review
Urban agriculture, known as urban farming, urban gardening, or community gardening, has become an important avenue for com...
The Promises and Potential Pitfalls of Highway Reclamation for Population Health: A Research Framework
The Promises and Potential Pitfalls of Highway Reclamation for Population Health: A Research Framework
Highway reclamation (i.e., the removal of highways or placing existing highways underground to create mixed-use urban area...
Participatory Systems Thinking to Elucidate Drivers of Food Access and Diet Disparities among Minoritized Urban Populations
Participatory Systems Thinking to Elucidate Drivers of Food Access and Diet Disparities among Minoritized Urban Populations
The purpose of this study was to use participatory systems thinking to develop a dynamic conceptual framework of racial/et...
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