A5026204547- Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Smoking Behavior and Cessation
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects
- Community Health and Development
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Crime Patterns and Interventions
- Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects
- Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
- Participatory Visual Research Methods
- Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- School Health and Nursing Education
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Crime, Deviance, and Social Control
- Noise Effects and Management
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- Regulation and Compliance Studies
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Food Security and Socioeconomic Dynamics
Pacific Institute For Research and Evaluation
2015-2024
Institute for Research and Evaluation
2011-2022
Scripps Research Institute
2018
Berkeley College
2011
Cancer Prevention Institute of California
2003-2008
The enactment of California's Proposition 215 stipulates that patients may use marijuana for medical reasons, provided it is recommended by a physician. Yet, risk being stigmatized this practice. This article examines the way in which perceive and process stigma, how affects their interactions experiences with others. Eighteen semi-structured interviews were carried out using interview guide. Most circumvented own physicians obtaining recommendation to medicinal marijuana, also used host...
Greater availability of commercial alcohol is associated with increased use and related public health problems. outlet density, a marker availability, poorer predominantly minority neighborhoods. However, populations, African Americans, Latinxs report using less compared to Whites wealthier groups. We consider the role structural racism in social ecology availability. Specifically we examine racist urban land practices USA which became codified 1930s through Federal Home Owner Lending...
To eliminate tobacco-related disparities, tobacco control research would benefit from a paradigm shift. Intersectionality, framework pioneered by Kimberlé Crenshaw in late 1980s, has the potential to improve our understanding of why and how certain social groups are disproportionately harmed commercial use, ability address persistent health disparities.
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Objective: This article reports the results of Sacramento Neighborhood Alcohol Prevention Project (SNAPP). SNAPP set as its goal reduction alcohol access, drinking, and related problems in two low-income, predominantly ethnic minority neighborhoods, focusing on individuals between ages 15 29, an age group identified with high rates alcohol-involved problems. Method: Two neighborhoods were selected to be intervention sites because they economically ethnically diverse had crime other...
Abstract Aims This study investigated the hypotheses that (i) intentional and unintentional injuries occur more frequently in areas with greater density of off‐premises alcohol outlets; (ii) larger chain outlets selling cheaper contribute substantially to injury risk than smaller independent outlets. Design Ecological cross‐sectional. Setting From 256 Statistical Area level 2 (SA2) census units Melbourne, Australia, we selected a random sample 62 units. There were 2119 1 (SA1) nested within...
This article examines why Southeast Asian American adolescents and emerging adults in two urban settings prefer to use "blunts," or hollowed-out cigars filled with marijuana, over other methods of drug intake. Rationales for preferring blunts were both instrumental social. Blunts allowed users more easily share the preferred among their peers, protected against potential adverse effects associated "high." also identify dominant style differentiate themselves from stigmatized drugs such as...
California's Smoke-Free Workplace Act--CA Labor Code Sec. 6404.5(a)--was extended to bars in 1998. This article analyzes changes normative beliefs and behaviors related bar smoking the decade following adoption of Act. In a series studies evaluating smoke-free workplace law bars, researchers conducted extensive observations interviews with staff patrons, health officials, enforcement personnel three California counties. Smoking outside became normal pause social environment created new type...
Drinking in bars contributes to numerous public health problems, including violence and motor vehicle crashes. In order formulate effective preventive interventions, it is essential identify which specific features of bar environments are related increased risks. Unobtrusive ethnographic observations one approach that has been used characterize these features; however, no studies have assessed reliability a representative sample bars. We performed brief scouting assessments all 165 six...
Background Distinguishing the impacts of neighborhood income and off‐premise alcohol outlet density on use has proven difficult, particularly given conflation these measures across areas. We explicitly test for differential effects related to individual area densities disorders (AUDs) by implementing a stratified microecological sample. Methods The East Bay Neighborhoods Study included survey 984 residents 72 microenvironments within geographically contiguous 6‐city in California Systematic...
The drug "Ecstasy" has been most commonly associated with raves, or electronic music dance events, and attributed sexual disinhibition. In an ethnographic investigation of use among second-generation Southeast Asian youth in Northern California conducted 2003, respondents described little interest using Ecstasy; yet a second study, Ecstasy was the fourth used substance. This article investigates social contexts for this change patterns. Respondents were youths young adults between ages 15 26...
Abstract The paper describes findings from a pilot study of drug use and environment for Southeast Asian youths in the San Francisco Bay Area. From interviews with 31 drug-involved living two low-income predominantly ethnic minority neighborhoods, smoking marijuana emerged as pervasive highly normative. Smoking provided means coping stresses home community life, located youths, moreover, within an alternative ghetto lifestyle rap music, smoking, youth crime, modeled by co-resident peers,...
California's 1995 Smoke-Free Workplace Act-Assembly Bill 13 (AB 13)-was extended to bars in 1998. This paper examines the challenges faced by officials responsible for implementing and enforcing law. As part of a series studies evaluating AB bars, researchers conducted confidential in-depth interviews with 35 state, county municipal authorities representatives non-governmental agencies. The were recorded, transcribed, coded analyzed themes respondent categories. Data from structured...
Despite reports of high rates smoking among Southeast Asian refugees in the United States, few studies have described environmental aspects tobacco use this population, particularly for second-generation youths. This absence is notable because social environment within which youths are exposed to products differs radically from natal their parents. We describe results a youth-led community participatory research project Asians Northern California. Using multiple data sources, documented...
Causal relationships between alcohol outlets and crime are inferred from their statistical associations across neighbourhoods. However, many unobserved covariates may confound these effects. Recognising that outlet sales vary by time of day week, we assess whether areas with more bars/pubs, restaurants or off-premise have during days times when greatest.
ABSTRACT This article assesses the drinking norms and practices of two generations Southeast Asians in East San Francisco Bay Area. Researchers included quantity frequency measures current alcohol use binge open-ended questions on behaviors a mixed-method study tobacco use. The generated data through in-person interviews with 164 respondents from urban neighborhoods. findings include normative among women underage youth, youths particularly troubling. Preventive interventions for this...
Location-based sampling is a method to obtain samples of people within ecological contexts relevant specific public health outcomes. Random selection increases generalizability; however, in some circumstances (such as surveying bar patrons), recruitment conditions increase risks sample bias. We attempted recruit representative bars and patrons six California cities, but low response rates precluded meaningful analysis. A systematic review 24 similar studies revealed that none addressed the...