State-Sponsored activism: bureaucrats and social movements in democratic Brazil
The Romantic Movement at the End of History
Impacts of Tax and Flavor Tobacco Policies on San Francisco Bay Area Tobacco Prices
California Proposition 56 increased the state tobacco tax by $2 per cigarette pack effective April 1, 2017. Between 2015-2020 San Francisco (SF) and some cities in Alameda County enacted local flavored tobacco sales restrictions. SF also increased its Cigarette Litter Abatement Fee, from $0.20/pack in 2015 to $1.00 in 2020. Compare the change in to...
Using Photographs to Understand the Context of Health: A Novel Two-Step Systematic Process for Coding Visual Data
In qualitative research, photographs and other visual data have been used with oral narratives in ethnography, interviews, and focus groups to convey and understand the perceptions, attitudes, and lived experiences of participants. Visual methodologies that incorporate photographic data include photo elicitation, which has varied approaches with th...
Rainfall shocks, soil health, and child health outcomes
Repeated manure inputs to a forage production soil increase microbial biomass and diversity and select for lower abundan...
Adding manure to croplands restores carbon and nutrients in depleted soils, while addressing a waste disposal need. This practice depends on the abundance and activity of microbial communities to break down manure inputs, which provide carbon for microbial growth and release nutrients for plant and microbial uptake. In a 2-year field study, we meas...
Alignment in local approaches to alcohol and cannabis control policy: A case study of California cities and counties
BackgroundPublic health experts have urged governments around the world to regulate newly legalized cannabis as they do alcohol to effectively and efficiently protect health. However, research evaluating the alignment of alcohol and cannabis policies is sparse. We assessed similarities and differences in local alcohol and cannabis control policies ...
Cannabis industry campaign expenditures in Colorado, 2005-2021
BackgroundThe cannabis industry has been described using the commercial determinants of health framework because it seeks to increase sales and profits through efforts to change the political environment. To increase understanding of these cannabis industry's efforts, this study describes cannabis industry campaign contributions in Colorado through...
Environmental justice, infrastructure provisioning, and environmental impact assessment: Evidence from the California En...
Environmental impact assessment (EIA) is a decision support tool that analyzes the environmental and social impacts of infrastructure projects. This paper focuses on the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), a law requiring EIA use in California, to examine where new infrastructure is proposed and whether EIA can shape infrastructure distrib...
Stratified Reproduction, Hysterectomy, and the Social Process of Opting into Infertility
Shifting cultural norms transform the uses and meanings of medical practices, and, in turn, medical practices have the capacity to alter social relations. In this article, I use hysterectomy as a case for understanding how reproductive health practices are constrained by and contribute to notions of gender, race, and stratified reproduction. Hyster...
