A5083923676- Health disparities and outcomes
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Global Health Care Issues
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Birth, Development, and Health
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Healthcare Systems and Reforms
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Smoking Behavior and Cessation
- Nutritional Studies and Diet
- Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Obesity and Health Practices
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
Harvard University
2016-2025
Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center
2014-2025
China Population and Development Research Center
2001-2025
Boston University
2007-2025
Harvard University Press
2015-2024
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
2023
Harvard Global Health Institute
2019-2023
Summit School
2023
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
2023
Brandeis University
2023
Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) are comparable nationally representative household surveys that have been conducted in more than 85 countries worldwide since 1984. The DHS were initially designed to expand on demographic, fertility family planning data collected the World Fertility Contraceptive Prevalence Surveys, continue provide an important resource for monitoring of vital statistics population health indicators low- middle-income countries. collect a wide range objective...
Use of multilevel frameworks and area-based socioeconomic measures (ABSMs) for public health monitoring can potentially overcome the absence data in most US surveillance systems. To assess whether ABSMs meaningfully be used diverse race/ethnicity-gender groups, we geocoded linked from Massachusetts Rhode Island to 1990 block group, tract, zip code ABSMs. Outcomes comprised death, birth, cancer incidence, tuberculosis, sexually transmitted infections, childhood lead poisoning, nonfatal...
Individuals from different backgrounds, social groups, and countries enjoy levels of health. This article defines distinguishes between unavoidable health inequalities unjust preventable inequities. We describe the dimensions along which are commonly examined, including across global population, or states, within geographies, by socially relevant groupings such as race/ethnicity, gender, education, caste, income, occupation, more. Different theories attempt to explain group-level differences...
Objectives. We describe a method to facilitate routine monitoring of socioeconomic health disparities in the United States. Methods. analyzed geocoded public surveillance data including events from birth death (c. 1990) linked 1990 census tract (CT) poverty for Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Results. For virtually all outcomes, risk increased with CT poverty, when we adjusted racial/ethnic were substantially reduced. half more than 50% cases would not have occurred if population rates...
Summary A common application of multilevel models is to apportion the variance in response according different levels data. Whereas partitioning variances straightforward with a continuous variable normal error distribution at each level, extension this binary responses or proportions counts less obvious. We describe methodology due Goldstein and co-workers for apportioning that attributable higher binomial logistic models. This they referred as partition coefficient. consider extending...
Use of zip codes in US public health research is on the rise. As February 2002, 230 articles were indexed by code PubMed,1 all published since 1989. Fifty-two these (23%) involved use censusderived socioeconomic data (e.g., median household income) to investigate effects position specified outcomes (article citations are available request from authors). To date, discussions regarding for have focused chiefly whether codes' larger population size (average: 30 000) and potentially greater...
ORE THAN 2 MILLION children younger than 5 years died in India 2006, more any other country, comprising onequarter of all child deaths the world. 1 Most recent estimates also show very high prevalences underweight (42.5%), stunting (48.0%), wasting (19.8%), and anemia (69.5%) among India. Prior research on determinants mortality nutritional outcomes have primarily focused contemporaneous factors such as breastfeeding, medical care, 3 birth spacing. 4Research intergenerational that might...