Monthly Archives: September 2016

JAMA Pediatrics Jessica A. Nadeau, Louise-Anne McNutt* and Jana Shaw ABSTRACT This study assesses vaccination coverage rates and factors associated with either incomplete vaccination or exemptions among school-age children in New York State public schools outside of New York City. Gaps in intentional and unintentional vaccination coverage persist and appear to be associated with socioeconomic factors [...]

Population and Environment Tse-Chuan Yang* and Leif Jensen ABSTRACT Previous research on climatic conditions and human mortality in the United States has three gaps: largely ignoring social conditions, lack of nationwide focus, and overlooking potential spatial variations. Our goal is to understand whether climatic conditions contribute to mortality after considering social conditions and to investigate whether spatial non-stationarity [...]

Homicide Studies Meghan L. Rogers and William Alex Pridemore ABSTRACT Recent systematic research indicated percent of the population that is young is not significantly associated with cross-national homicide victimization rates. However, there are theoretical reasons to expect percent young may be associated with 15 to 24 age-specific and with gender-specific cross-national homicide victimization rates. We [...]

Housing Studies 31:2 Roderick W. Jones and William Alex Pridemore* ABSTRACT The US housing crisis affected millions of people nationwide. One recent study found a connection between foreclosure and suicide, and prior research showed an association between macro-level economic hardship and suicide rates. Using data from 142 US metropolitan statistical areas and a measure of [...]

Population Health Metrics 14:25 Tony H. Grubesic, Ran Wei, Alan T. Murray and William Alex Pridemore* ABSTRACT Background: A growing body of research recommends controlling alcohol availability to reduce harm. Various common approaches, however, provide dramatically different pictures of the physical availability of alcohol. This limits our understanding of the distribution of alcohol access, the [...]

Aggressive Behavior William Alex Pridemore* and Mark T. Berg ABSTRACT We examined risk of male premature mortality associated with recent criminal victimization. Prior victimization is among the most consistent predictors of future risk but the explanation of repeat victimization remains elusive. Two general perspectives frame this debate. According to the state-dependence perspective, repeat victimization is [...]

American Journal of Public Health Kirsten K. Davison, Selma Gicevic, Alyssa Aftosmes-Tobio, Claudia Ganter, Christine L. Simon, Sami Newlan, and Jennifer A. Manganello* ABSTRACT Background. Childhood obesity is one of the leading causes of compromised health in children. Because parents are fundamental stakeholders in childhood obesity prevention, it is critical that research informing parenting interventions [...]

PeerJ Iulia A. Neamtiu​, Michael S. Bloom*, Irina Dumitrascu, Carmen A. Roba, Cristian Pop, Claudia Ordeanu, Ovidiu Balacescu, and Eugen S. Gurzau ABSTRACT Background: Cancer research is a national and international priority, with the efficiency and effectiveness of current anti-tumor therapies being one of the major challenges with which physicians are faced. Objective: To assess [...]

Journal of Marriage and Family Zoya Gubernskaya* and Judith Treas ABSTRACT: This article explores how the diffusion of mobile phones is associated with communication between adult children and their mothers. The article analyzes 2001 International Social Survey Program data from 24 countries (N = 12,313) combined with the country-level data on the prevalence of mobile [...]

Journal of Human Lactation Janine M. Jurkowski, , Juliana Svistova, Trang Nguyen and Barbara A. Dennison ABSTRACT Background: Establishing breastfeeding in the first days of an infant’s life is important for longer term success in breastfeeding. In 2009, New York State (NYS) was the second state to require maternity care facilities to collect infant feeding [...]