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Walkable school neighborhoods are not playable neighborhoods
Health & Place, 2015 The objectives were to determine whether: (1) playability features differed across walkable and non-walkable school neighborhoods, and (2) physical activity differed in children living in walkable and non-walkable school neighborhoods. A total of 3912 grade 6-8 students from 132 school neighborhoods were studied.
Janssen, Ian, King, Nathan
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Atmosphere, 2022 PM2.5 is an air pollutant that is widely associated with adverse health effects, and which tends to be disproportionately located near low-income communities and communities of color.
Shahir Masri +4 more
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Immigration and the Neighborhood [PDF]
Working paper (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia), 2006 Within metropolitan areas, neighborhoods of growing immigrant settlement are becoming relatively less desirable to natives. We deploy a geographic diffusion model to instrument for the growth of immigrant density in a neighborhood. Our approach deals explicitly with potential unobservable shocks that may be correlated with proximity to immigrant ...
Saiz, Albert, Wachter, Susan M
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Density of outdoor advertising of consumable products in NYC by neighborhood poverty level
BMC Public Health, 2019 Background To determine if outdoor advertising density for non-alcoholic drinks, food, tobacco products, and alcohol, is associated with neighborhood poverty or other Census-level characteristics in New York City (NYC).
Tamar Adjoian +2 more
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 BackgroundTo address significant health inequities experienced by residents of public housing in East and Central Harlem compared to other New Yorkers, NYC Department of Health and Mental Health (DOHMH) collaborated with community and academic ...
Nancy VanDevanter +14 more
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Examining Health Care Costs Among MANNA Clients and a Comparison Group
Journal of Primary Care & Community Health, 2013 Chronically ill populations have a strong need for quality public health nutrition services to aid in disease management and improve health outcomes. Evidence suggests that neglecting the importance of adequate nutrition in chronically ill patients has ...
Jill Gurvey +5 more
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Osong Public Health and Research Perspectives, 2013 The first case of poliomyelitis was reported in Korea in 1939. The inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) and the oral polio vaccine (OPV) were introduced in 1958 and 1962, respectively. The National Immunization Program (NIP) was established in 1966 and poliomyelitis was designated as a second-class communicable disease [1].
Cho, Hae-Wol, Chu, Chaeshin
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CoRR, 2021 In the standard planar $k$-center clustering problem, one is given a set $P$ of $n$ points in the plane, and the goal is to select $k$ center points, so as to minimize the maximum distance over points in $P$ to their nearest center. Here we initiate the systematic study of the clustering with neighborhoods problem, which generalizes the $k$-center ...
Huang, Hongyao +2 more
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Public Health in Practice, 2023 Objectives: The NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene conducted a COVID-19 and flu vaccine community detailing program to influential businesses and faith-based organizations in the Northeast Bronx in 2022 to increase COVID-19 and flu vaccine ...
Fatoumata Diallo +6 more
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International Journal of Population Data Science, 2018 As a city that has lost more than 1/3 of its population over the past 6 decades, some Baltimore neighborhoods suffer from a disproportionate number of vacant and abandoned properties, mired in issues of unclear ownership and “under-water” lien burdens ...
Amanda M Davies +3 more
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