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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...
SchoolHEAT: Racial and Ethnic Inequity in School Temperature
SchoolHEAT: Racial and Ethnic Inequity in School Temperature
Exposure to high environmental temperature is detrimental to health through multiple pathways. This paper describes dispar...
The Influence of Gentrification on Adverse Birth Outcomes in California
The Influence of Gentrification on Adverse Birth Outcomes in California
Evidence has documented the effects of place on perinatal outcomes, but less is known about the sociopolitical mechanisms,...
Neighborhood Social and Physical Environments and Sedentary Behaviors: Importance of Early Childhood in Shaping Health Behaviors
Neighborhood Social and Physical Environments and Sedentary Behaviors: Importance of Early Childhood in Shaping Health Behaviors
This study aims to investigate the persistence of sedentary behaviors from early childhood to adolescence and the longitud...
Research Translation to Promote Urban Health in Latin America: The SALURBAL Experience
Research Translation to Promote Urban Health in Latin America: The SALURBAL Experience
In highly urbanized and unequal Latin America, urban health and health equity research are essential to effective policyma...
Smartphone GPS-Based Exposure to Greenspace and Walkability and Accelerometer-Assessed Physical Activity During Pregnancy and Early Postpartum—Evidence from the MADRES Cohort
Smartphone GPS-Based Exposure to Greenspace and Walkability and Accelerometer-Assessed Physical Activity During Pregnancy and Early Postpartum—Evidence from the MADRES Cohort
A growing number of studies have associated walkability and greenspace exposure with greater physical activity (PA) in wom...
Are Neighborhood Greenspaces Associated with Leisure-time Physical Activity? Results from ELSA-Brasil Eight-year Follow-up
Are Neighborhood Greenspaces Associated with Leisure-time Physical Activity? Results from ELSA-Brasil Eight-year Follow-up
We investigated whether neighborhood greenspaces were associated with physical activity in adulthood over 3 cohort visits ...
Drug Overdose Death among Residents of Urban Census Tracts: How Granular Geographical Analyses Uncover Socioenvironmental Correlates in Cuyahoga County, Ohio
Drug Overdose Death among Residents of Urban Census Tracts: How Granular Geographical Analyses Uncover Socioenvironmental Correlates in Cuyahoga County, Ohio
Geostatistical data aggregated at state, county, municipality, or ZIP code levels often are utilized for assessing drug ov...
Association Between Residential Exposure to Road Traffic Noise and Psychological Health in Preschool Children
Association Between Residential Exposure to Road Traffic Noise and Psychological Health in Preschool Children
Environmental noise pollution is one of the biggest concerns and the most important challenges in urban areas. Evidence fr...
The Association Between Street Construction Projects and Community Violence in New York City
The Association Between Street Construction Projects and Community Violence in New York City
Community violence is a major cause of injury and death in the USA. Empirical studies have identified that some place-base...
Indicators from The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change: Perspectives and Experience of City Leaders from 118 Cities
Indicators from The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change: Perspectives and Experience of City Leaders from 118 Cities
Rapid urbanization and escalating climate crises place cities at the critical juncture of environmental and public health ...
Is Income and Racial Residential Segregation Associated with 13-Year Changes in Body Mass Index? A Longitudinal Analysis in the Brazilian Pró-Saúde Cohort Study
Is Income and Racial Residential Segregation Associated with 13-Year Changes in Body Mass Index? A Longitudinal Analysis in the Brazilian Pró-Saúde Cohort Study
Neighborhoods or residential environments have physical and social attributes which may contribute to inequalities in the ...
Historical Redlining and Community-Reported Housing Quality: A Spatial Analysis
Historical Redlining and Community-Reported Housing Quality: A Spatial Analysis
Historical redlining, a racially discriminatory practice implemented by the US government in the 1930s, has been ...
Social Vulnerability and Biological Aging in New York City: An Electronic Health Records-Based Study
Social Vulnerability and Biological Aging in New York City: An Electronic Health Records-Based Study
Chronological age is not an accurate predictor of morbidity and mortality risk, as individuals’ aging processes are ...
The Relationship between Noise Pollution and Depression and Implications for Healthy Aging: A Spatial Analysis Using Routinely Collected Primary Care Data
The Relationship between Noise Pollution and Depression and Implications for Healthy Aging: A Spatial Analysis Using Routinely Collected Primary Care Data
Environmental noise is a significant public health concern, ranking among the top environmental risks to citizens’ h...
Effect of In utero Exposure to Air Pollution on Adulthood Hospitalizations
Effect of In utero Exposure to Air Pollution on Adulthood Hospitalizations
Empirical analyses have demonstrated that individuals exposed to severe air pollution in utero have worse health outcomes ...
Austerity, Health and Public Safety in Low-Income Neighborhoods: Grassroots Responses to the Decline of Local Services in Southeast England
Austerity, Health and Public Safety in Low-Income Neighborhoods: Grassroots Responses to the Decline of Local Services in Southeast England
This article uses ethnographic and qualitative research to explore the health implications and social responses of a low-i...
Church Closings Were Associated with Higher COVID-19 Infection Rates: Implications for Community Health Equity
Church Closings Were Associated with Higher COVID-19 Infection Rates: Implications for Community Health Equity
This study investigates the changes in physical church closings years 2013 to 2019 in New York City (NYC), Philadelphia, a...
The Affordable Rental Housing Crisis and Population Health Equity: a Multidimensional and Multilevel Framework
The Affordable Rental Housing Crisis and Population Health Equity: a Multidimensional and Multilevel Framework
The US is facing a severe affordable rental housing crisis that contributes to multiple forms of housing insecurity includ...
Gun Violence on Walkable Routes to and from School: Recommendations for Policy and Practice
Gun Violence on Walkable Routes to and from School: Recommendations for Policy and Practice
Gun-related violence exposure is a significant public health problem for urban youth. Few studies have implemented methods...
A Good Farewell? Positive Exits from Federal Housing Assistance and Lower Acute Healthcare Utilization
A Good Farewell? Positive Exits from Federal Housing Assistance and Lower Acute Healthcare Utilization
Little is known regarding the health outcomes of people who exit from housing assistance and if that experience varies by ...
Associations between a Novel Measure of Census Tract-Level Credit Insecurity and Frequent Mental Distress in US Urban Areas, 2020
Associations between a Novel Measure of Census Tract-Level Credit Insecurity and Frequent Mental Distress in US Urban Areas, 2020
Access to and utilization of consumer credit remains an understudied social determinant of health. We examined association...
Association Between Air Pollution and Coronary Heart Disease Hospitalizations in Lanzhou City, 2013–2020: a Time Series Analysis
Association Between Air Pollution and Coronary Heart Disease Hospitalizations in Lanzhou City, 2013–2020: a Time Series Analysis
Coronary heart disease (CHD) is one of the most serious public health problems. However, few studies have focused on the e...
Barriers and Facilitators to HIV Service Access among Hispanic/Latino Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men in Metropolitan Atlanta—a Qualitative Analysis
Barriers and Facilitators to HIV Service Access among Hispanic/Latino Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men in Metropolitan Atlanta—a Qualitative Analysis
Hispanic/Latino persons are disproportionately impacted by HIV in the US, and HIV diagnoses among Hispanic/Latino men in G...
Temporal Trends in Telehealth Availability in Mental Health Treatment Settings: Differences in Growth by State Rurality, 2015–2020
Temporal Trends in Telehealth Availability in Mental Health Treatment Settings: Differences in Growth by State Rurality, 2015–2020
We sought to investigate temporal trends in telehealth availability among outpatient mental health treatment facilities an...
Experiences, Expectations, and Satisfaction with Police—a Population-Based Study of Differences by Race and Ethnicity in Two Counties
Experiences, Expectations, and Satisfaction with Police—a Population-Based Study of Differences by Race and Ethnicity in Two Counties
We used the 2021 Policing in America Survey to examine experiences with police and perceptions of policing in Cook County,...
Impact of Urban Slum Residence on Coverage of Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health Service Indicators in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana: an Ecological Time-Series Analysis, 2018–2021
Impact of Urban Slum Residence on Coverage of Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health Service Indicators in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana: an Ecological Time-Series Analysis, 2018–2021
Among other focus areas, the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 3 and 11 seek to advance progress toward universa...
Urban Health Scholarship and Practice in the Post-Pandemic Era
Urban Health Scholarship and Practice in the Post-Pandemic Era
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted several challenges that cities face that can affect the health of urban populations. The...
The Effect of Gun-Free School Zones on Crimes Committed with a Firearm in Saint Louis, Missouri
The Effect of Gun-Free School Zones on Crimes Committed with a Firearm in Saint Louis, Missouri
There have been no peer-reviewed, quantitative research studies on the effectiveness of gun-free school zones. The objecti...
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