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Effect of Social Environments on Cardiovascular Disease in the United States [PDF]

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2022
Background This study aims to examine the effect of time‐variant perceived neighborhood social cohesion, perceived neighborhood physical disorder, and local crime on cardiovascular disease (CVD) incidence from 2006 through 2016.
Yeonwoo Kim, Ahyoung Lee, Catherine Cubbin   +2 more
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Loneliness in Middle-Aged and Older Adults: Effects of Social Environments [PDF]

Behavioral Sciences
Loneliness is a common subjective condition that is associated with distress and negative outcomes for psychosocial functioning and well-being, and it is grounded in destructive or inadequate social functioning.
Inna Murtazina, Kristina Krupina, Olga Strizhitskaya   +2 more
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An Improved STC-Based Full Coverage Path Planning Algorithm for Cleaning Tasks in Large-Scale Unstructured Social Environments [PDF]

Sensors
Some large social environments are expected to use Covered Path Planning (CPP) methods to handle daily tasks such as cleaning and disinfection. These environments are usually large in scale, chaotic in structure, and contain many obstacles.
Chao Wang, Wei Dong, Renjie Li, Hui Dong, Huajian Liu, Yongzhuo Gao   +5 more
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Survey of Methylmercury Exposures and Risk Factors Among Indigenous Communities in Guyana, South America [PDF]

Journal of Health and Pollution, 2020
Background. Gold mining activities in forested areas across Guyana have been a common practice for more than a century. The intensification of artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) in recent decades caused by global market demand is contributing ...
L. Cynthia Watson, Jorge L. Hurtado-Gonzales, Christopher J. Chin, Juliana Persaud   +3 more
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Age group differences in psychological distress and leisure-time exercise/socioeconomic status during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional analysis during 2020 to 2021 of a cohort study in Japan

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
ObjectiveThis study aimed to determine the association between psychological distress and leisure-time exercise/socioeconomic status by age group, using data from a cohort study in Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic.MethodsThis cross-sectional study was ...
Yoshinobu Saito, Yoshinobu Saito, Yoshinobu Saito, Sho Nakamura, Sho Nakamura, Kaname Watanabe, Kaname Watanabe, Hiromi Ikegami, Hiromi Ikegami, Naoko Shinmura, Naoko Shinmura, Shinya Sato, Shinya Sato, Shinya Sato, Yohei Miyagi, Hiroto Narimatsu, Hiroto Narimatsu, Hiroto Narimatsu, Hiroto Narimatsu   +18 more
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A multimethod approach for county-scale geospatial analysis of emerging infectious diseases: a cross-sectional case study of COVID-19 incidence in Germany

International Journal of Health Geographics, 2020
Background As of 13 July 2020, 12.9 million COVID-19 cases have been reported worldwide. Prior studies have demonstrated that local socioeconomic and built environment characteristics may significantly contribute to viral transmission and incidence rates,
Christopher Scarpone, Sebastian T. Brinkmann, Tim Große, Daniel Sonnenwald, Martin Fuchs, Blake Byron Walker   +5 more
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Youth’s Social Environments: Associations with Mental Problems and Achievement of Developmental Milestones in Times of Crises

Adolescents, 2023
So far, many studies indicated that youth experience mental problems during crises, such as the COVID-19 crisis, but little attention has been paid to the relation to age-adequate functioning and its association to layered social environments. This study
Leanne A. C. van Est-Bitincka, Hilde D. Schuiringa, Paul T. van der Heijden, Marcel A. G. van Aken, Odilia M. Laceulle   +4 more
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Parents’ perceptions of their children’s physical activity during the COVID-19 pandemic

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background COVID-19 has drastically changed the everyday lives of children, including limiting interactions with peers, loss of regularly organized activities, and closure of schools and recreational facilities.
Emma Ostermeier, Patricia Tucker, Danielle Tobin, Andrew Clark, Jason Gilliland   +4 more
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Neighborhood-health links: Differences between rural-to-urban migrants and natives in Shanghai

Demographic Research, 2015
Background: It is well known that migrant workers tend to have different perceptions of neighborhood environments than urban natives. However, less is known about how these differences in perception may be linked to the health of members of these two ...
Danan Gu, Haiyan Zhu, Ming Wen
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Factors shaping the timing of later entry into parenthood: Narratives of choice and constraint

Social Sciences and Humanities Open, 2023
Objective: This study explores the choices and constraints affecting timing of parenthood among those who became parents in their mid-thirties and early forties and how their fertility decisions were both affected by and negotiated within the interplay ...
Jessica Datta, Karen J. Maxwell, Kirstin R. Mitchell, Ruth Lewis, Kaye Wellings   +4 more
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