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• Planning and zoning created neighborhoods across the SF Bay Area in which non-wealthy, non-White people and density of alcohol retailers and housing were excluded or allowed. • Structural racism measured by historic federal land valuation zones predicted the collocation of off-premise alcohol outlet density with lower income and non-White residen...
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• We estimate links between mental health and receipt of social support among a cohort of aging adults in rural South Africa. • Having depressive symptoms is negatively associated with odds of receiving some types of social support for men and women. • Married men and women have greater odds of receiving all types of social support relative to non-...
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• Social integration and inflammation operate independently in their associations with depressive symptoms. • Associations between mental health, inflammation, and social integration differ by race/ethnicity. • Inflammation is associated with depressive symptoms for non-Hispanic White but not for non-Hispanic Black or Hispanic populations. • Social...
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Recognizing that health outcomes are influenced by and occur within multiple social and physical contexts, researchers have used multilevel modeling techniques for decades to analyze hierarchical or nested data. Cross-Classified Multilevel Models (CCMM) are a statistical technique proposed in the 1990s that extend standard multilevel modeling and e...
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• Decisions to abstain from smoking spreads across social networks. • Smokers are more likely to abstain from smoking if their friends also abstain. • Effects of peers' smoking abstinence persist at least one year after a 3-month intervention.
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• We estimate the causal impact of Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) on household food insecurity and nutrition outcomes. • PSNP has no impact on household food security, child dietary diversity and child anthropometry. • PSNP brought a 0.308 unit gain in number of meals per day consumed by child. • PSNP had no impact on household food security,...
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• Confounding affected by past exposure is a problem in studies of cognitive function. • We addressed this using inverse probability weighted marginal structural models. • Volunteering and internet use were protective against cognitive impairment. • Other cognitively stimulating activities were protective with standard regression. • But these assoc...
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• About one in every five adults aged 15 years and older in South Africa report ill-health. • The relationship between living arrangements, SES and poor health in South Africa is complex. • The underlying social characteristics of some groups give them less opportunity to be healthy or disease-free than others. • Certain females in South Africa – y...
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• Neighborhood characteristics were not related to awareness of different health topics or health information seeking behavior. • For most topics, reported awareness of health topics from the media was greater than from medical providers. • Information scanning was more prevalent among those with a college education and who were younger and female....
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Individual-, family-, and contextual-level factors can simultaneously and interactively affect a child's body mass index (BMI). We examine parental nativity as a key determinant of changes in children's BMI over time. Prior research on this topic has been inconclusive. A longitudinal sample of households with children residing in four low-income, h...
