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Property Tax Foreclosure, Spatial Effects, and Neighborhood Racial Demographic Change: Examining Data From Detroit [PDF]

Frontiers in Sociology, 2021
In recent decades, the city of Detroit has experienced the greatest population loss of any major American city. Applying Event History Analysis methodology to a large dataset containing information on all properties in Detroit between 2002 and 2013, I ...
Karl Vachuska
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Social demographic change and autism. [PDF]

Demography, 2010
Abstract Parental age at child’s birth—which has increased for U.S. children in the 1992–2000 birth cohorts—is strongly associated with an increased risk of autism. By turning a social demographic lens on the historical patterning of concordance among twin pairs, we identify a central mechanism for this association: de novo mutations ...
Liu K, Zerubavel N, Bearman P.
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Quantifying the contribution of smoking to regional mortality disparities in Germany: a cross-sectional study

BMJ Open, 2022
Objectives Substantial regional variation in smoking behaviour in Germany has been well documented. However, little is known about how these regional differences in smoking affect regional mortality disparities.
Pavel Grigoriev, Alyson van Raalte, Sebastian Klüsener   +2 more
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Health and health inequalities impact assessment for non-clinical measures to control COVID-19 in the Basque Country and Navarre (Spain)

Journal of Public Health Research, 2022
This article describes the results of a health and health inequalities impact assessment of the COVID-19 pandemic control measures in the regions of the Basque Country and Navarre in Spain.
M Urtaran-Laresgoiti, Y González-Rábago, U Martín, A Rivadeneyra-Sicilia, M Morteruel   +4 more
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Adolescent school injuries and classroom sex compositions in German secondary schools

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background School injuries are an important adolescent health problem. Previous research suggests that relevant risk behaviors for school injuries, risk-taking and aggression, are highly susceptible to peer effects.
Andreas Filser, Sven Stadtmüller, Robert Lipp, Richard Preetz   +3 more
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Measuring the association of objective and perceived neighborhood environment with physical activity in older adults: challenges and implications from a systematic review

International Journal of Health Geographics, 2020
Background A supportive environment is a key factor in addressing the issue of health among older adults. There is already sufficient evidence that objective and self-reported measures of the neighborhood environment should be taken into account as ...
Manuela Peters, Saskia Muellmann, Lara Christianson, Imke Stalling, Karin Bammann, Carina Drell, Sarah Forberger   +6 more
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Macroeconomic changes and educational inequalities in traffic fatalities in the Baltic countries and Finland in 2000–2015: a register-based study

Scientific Reports, 2021
This study examined trends and inequalities in road traffic accident (RTA) mortality in the Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) and Finland in relation to large-scale macroeconomic changes in the 2000s. Educational inequalities in RTA mortality
Andrew Stickley, Aleksei Baburin, Domantas Jasilionis, Juris Krumins, Pekka Martikainen, Naoki Kondo, Mall Leinsalu   +6 more
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Multi-level strategy to promote equity through empowerment and participation

International Journal of Integrated Care, 2019
Introduction: Health inequities are recognised as one of the core challenges faced affecting population health worldwide. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their focus on leaving no one behind have put equity at the centre of efforts to pursue
Anna Giné March, Amaia Bacigalupe, Maite Morteruel, Unai Martín   +3 more
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Common Pitfalls in the Interpretation of COVID-19 Data and Statistics

Intereconomics, 2020
Policymakers, experts and the general public heavily rely on the data that are being reported in the context of the coronavirus pandemic. Daily data releases on confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths provide information on the course of the pandemic.
Andreas Backhaus
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Sociodemographic inequalities in mortality from drowning in the Baltic countries and Finland in 2000–2015: a register-based study

BMC Public Health, 2023
Background Drowning is an important public health problem. Some evidence suggests that the risk of drowning is not distributed evenly across the general population.
Andrew Stickley, Aleksei Baburin, Domantas Jasilionis, Juris Krumins, Pekka Martikainen, Naoki Kondo, Jae Il Shin, Yosuke Inoue, Mall Leinsalu   +8 more
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