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Rideshare Trips and Alcohol-Involved Motor Vehicle Crashes in Chicago
Morrison and colleagues recently published a paper reporting on a case-case analysis of rideshare activity near alcohol-involved and non-alcohol-involved car crashes in Chicago. The observed higher...
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The impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on population mental health: An analysis of...
Catherine Gimbrone and colleagues recently published a paper in the journal PLoS One exploring the effects of COVID-19 lockdowns on population mental health. Using novel data sources that allow for...
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The politics of depression: Associations between political beliefs and...
In a manuscript recently published in SSM Mental Health, Catherine Gimbrone and colleagues investigated the role that political beliefs play in shaping adolescent psychological wellbeing. After decades...
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Maintaining patient privacy while geocoding patient addresses: Do Not Use R...
Imagine if a clinical researcher were to disclose a list of patient addresses to a third-party – government agency, for profit company or not-for-profit entity – that was outside of their hospital or...
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Ridesharing companies such as Uber and Lyft have completed more than 20 billion rides globally since 2010. Studies have found that this change to transportation systems has affected health outcomes,...
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Lessons Learned From Dear Pandemic, a Social Media–Based Science...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified excessive COVID-19-related information as a public health crisis, calling it an “infodemic.” The infodemic has been exacerbated by uncertainties...
View ArticleThe COVID-19 Pandemic as a Threat Multiplier for Childhood Health...
In the United States, the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted and exacerbated socioeconomic and racial health disparities. For example, U.S.-based studies have found that the mortality rates for Black,...
View ArticleIn New York City, pandemic policing reproduced familiar patterns of racial...
In the past month, New York City has rolled back most of the public health mandates first put in place to control the spread of COVID-19 in early 2020, such as social distancing and mask wearing...
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Overflowing Disparities: Examining the Availability of Litter Bins in New...
The 1980s marked the birth of the modern environmental justice movements thanks to civil rights activists’ concerns about the disproportionate placements of landfills in low-income and Black...
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Social support and intimate partner violence in rural Pakistan: a...
While there are well-established links between social support and intimate partner violence (IPV), the directionality of this relationship has not been firmly established due to a dearth of...
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