The urban lead (Pb) burden in humans, animals and the natural environment

R Levin, CLZ Vieira, MH Rosenbaum, K Bischoff… - Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Centuries of human activities, particularly housing and transportation practices from the late
19th century through the 1980's, dispersed hundreds of millions of tons of lead into our …

Do income, race and ethnicity, and sprawl influence the greenspace-human health link in city-level analyses? Findings from 496 cities in the United States

MHEM Browning, A Rigolon - International journal of environmental …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Examination of the greenspace—human health relationship operates in at least four
dimensions: what is considered greenspace? which moderators and mediators are …

Linking historical discriminatory housing patterns to the contemporary food environment in Baltimore

RC Sadler, U Bilal, CD Furr-Holden - Spatial and spatio-temporal …, 2021 - Elsevier
Food access literature links disinvested communities with poor food access. Similarly, links
are made between discriminatory housing practices and contemporary investment. Less …

Non-Fatal gun violence and community health behaviors: a neighborhood analysis in Philadelphia

DC Semenza, R Stansfield - Journal of behavioral medicine, 2021 - Springer
Research shows that community violence is associated with an array of negative health
outcomes, yet no study has examined the specific association between different types of gun …

Deriving neighborhood-level diet and physical activity measurements from anonymized mobile phone location data for enhancing obesity estimation

RZ Zhou, Y Hu, JN Tirabassi, Y Ma, Z Xu - International Journal of Health …, 2022 - Springer
Background Obesity is a serious public health problem. Existing research has shown a
strong association between obesity and an individual's diet and physical activity. If we …

Compounding effects of social vulnerability and recurring natural disasters on mental and physical health

MB Hahn, R Van Wyck, L Lessard… - Disaster medicine and …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Objective: This study evaluated the relationships between the occurrence of recent and
recurring natural disasters on the incidence of acute and chronic health outcomes at the …

Intrapersonal and environmental barriers to physical activity among Blacks and Latinos

DD Payán, DC Sloane, J Illum, LVB Lewis - Journal of nutrition education …, 2019 - Elsevier
Objective To understand perceived barriers and facilitators to physical activity (PA) among at-
risk African American and Hispanic adolescents and adults in a low-income community …

The use of small area estimates in place-based health research

AY Kong, X Zhang - American journal of public health, 2020 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Interest in the impact of the built environment on health behaviors, outcomes, and disparities
is increasing, and the growing development of statistical modeling techniques has allowed …

Daily red wine vinegar ingestion for eight weeks improves glucose homeostasis and affects the metabolome but does not reduce adiposity in adults

P Jasbi, O Baker, X Shi, LA Gonzalez, S Wang… - Food & function, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Some studies have reported that vinegar ingestion at mealtime attenuates postprandial
glycemia in healthy adults and individuals with type 2 diabetes. Emerging data suggest that …

Individual and location-based characteristics associated with Autonomous Vehicle adoption in the Chicago metropolitan area: Implications for public health

LL Losada-Rojas, K Gkritza - Journal of Transport & Health, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Introduction Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) could have profound effects on mobility,
safety, and the build environment. In specific, AVs are expected to provide more mobility …