Michaels, Eli K. Canchola, Alison J. Beyer, Kirsten M. M. Zhou, Yuhong Shariff-Marco, Salma Gomez, Scarlett L.
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Cancer Causes & Control
Purpose In the United States, Black females are burdened by more aggressive subtypes and increased mortality from breast cancer compared to non-Hispanic (NH) White females. Institutional racism may contribute to these inequities. We aimed to characterize the association between home mortgage discrimination, a novel measure of institutional racism, ...
York Cornwell, Erin Goldman, Alyssa W
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The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences
Family members and friends who live nearby may be especially well-positioned to provide social support and companionship for community-residing older adults, but prior research has not examined the distribution and characteristics of local ties in older adults' networks. We hypothesize that local ties are newer, more frequently accessed, and more e...
Ku, Benson S Lally, Cathy A Compton, Michael T Druss, Benjamin G
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Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.)
Individuals with serious mental illnesses are at risk of receiving inadequate outpatient mental health services, increasing the likelihood of medication nonadherence, readmission, and self-harm. The purpose of this study was to identify individual- and neighborhood-level factors associated with outpatient mental health visits. This study included 4...
Cambron, Christopher Kosterman, Rick Rhew, Isaac C Catalano, Richard F Guttmannova, Katarina Hawkins, J David
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Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research
This study examined associations of neighborhood structural factors (census-based measures, socioeconomic disadvantage, and residential stability); self-reported measures of general and substance use-specific risk factors across neighborhood, school, peer, and family domains; and sociodemographic factors with substance use among 9th grade students....
Eales, Lauren Reynolds, Arthur J Ou, Suh-Ruu
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Preventive medicine
Despite obesity being a major concern for both children and adults in the United States today, there are few successful childhood interventions that curb obesity later in life. The objective of the current study is to identify childhood predictors of adult obesity at multiple levels in a large longitudinal sample of participants from an economicall...
Fuller, Taleria R Sciandra, Matt Koumans, Emilia H Boulet, Sheree L Warner, Lee Cox, Shanna Gennetian, Lisa A
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SSM - population health
To assess the impact of Moving to Opportunity for Fair Housing Demonstration Program (MTO) implemented in 1994 in five U.S. cities (Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York City) on teen births. We analyzed baseline and long-term evaluation data for youth (ages 13-20) and young adults (ages 21-30) (N = 7861) who were children or teens ...
Blair, Lisa M. Ford, Jodi L.
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Maternal and child health journal
The effects of place on human health and development have been extensively studied in recent years in the adult and adolescent populations, but minimal research has addressed neighborhood effects in early childhood. This analysis of the National Survey of Children’s Health 2011/2012 cross-sectional survey examined relationships between risk for dev...
Lorenzo-Blanco, Elma I. Meca, Alan Unger, Jennifer B. Szapocznik, José Cano, Miguel Ángel Des Rosiers, Sabrina E. Schwartz, Seth J.
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Journal of Youth and Adolescence
Latinx families can experience cultural stressors, which can negatively influence their emotional and behavioral health. Few studies have examined if perceived neighborhood characteristics buffer against or exacerbate the negative effects of cultural stress on adolescent and parent health outcomes. To address this gap in the literature, this study ...
Woo, Bongki Wang, Kaipeng Takeuchi, David T.
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Social Indicators Research
This paper examines the social factors associated with Asian Americans’ perception of their social position in the United States. The neighborhood may be an immediate context through which individuals sort their social position in a social hierarchy and reinforce distinctions between classes. We hypothesize that Asians’ subjective social status ass...
Rhew, Isaac C. Kosterman, Rick Lee, Jungeun Olivia
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Journal of Urban Health
There has been increasing interest in how neighborhood context may be associated with alcohol use. This study uses finite mixture modeling to empirically identify distinct neighborhood subtypes according to patterns of clustering of multiple neighborhood characteristics and examine whether these subtypes are associated with alcohol use. Neighborhoo...
