Cities

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 12-month prevalence and concomitants of DSM-IV depression and anxiety disorders in two violence-prone cities in Brazil. 
  • A multi-city community based smoking research intervention project in the African-American population. 
  • An observation-based model for analyzing ozone precursor relationships in the urban atmosphere. 
  • Antimicrobial resistance genes are enriched in aerosols near impacted urban surface waters in La Paz, Bolivia. 
  • Apoptotic and inflammatory effects induced by different particles in human alveolar macrophages. 
  • Are environmental pollution and biodiversity levels associated to the spread and mortality of COVID-19? A four-month global analysis. 
  • Are free anti-tuberculosis drugs enough? An empirical study from three cities in China. 
  • Assessing the Sustainability of Long-Term Care Insurance Systems Based on a Policy-Population-Economy Complex System: The Case Study of China. 
  • Association between Cold Spells and Mortality Risk and Burden: A Nationwide Study in China. 
  • Association of city-level walkability, accessibility to biking and public transportation and socio-economic features with COVID-19 infection in Massachusetts, USA: An ecological study. 
  • Bioaerosol sampling optimization for community exposure assessment in cities with poor sanitation: A one health cross-sectional study. 
  • Bioaerosol sampling optimization for community exposure assessment in cities with poor sanitation: A one health cross-sectional study. 
  • Bioaerosol sampling optimization for community exposure assessment in cities with poor sanitation: A one health cross-sectional study. 
  • Changes in the Recreational Built Environment and Youth Body Mass Index. 
  • Characterization of Spatial Air Pollution Patterns Near a Large Railyard Area in Atlanta, Georgia. 
  • Characterization of aerosol optical properties, chemical composition and mixing states in the winter season in Shanghai, China. 
  • Chlordanes in the indoor and outdoor air of three U.S. cities. 
  • City-scale analysis of water-related energy identifies more cost-effective solutions. 
  • Climate and lawn management interact to control C4 plant distribution in residential lawns across seven U.S. cities. 
  • Combined effects of gender affirmation and economic hardship on vulnerability to HIV: a qualitative analysis among U.S. adult transgender women. 
  • Comment on "Atmospheric particulate matter pollution during the 2008 Beijing Olympics". 
  • Comparing recruitment strategies to engage hard-to-reach men who have sex with men living with HIV with unsuppressed viral loads in four US cities: Results from HPTN 078. 
  • Comparison of water-energy trajectories of two major regions experiencing water shortage. 
  • Composition of fine particulate matter and risk of preterm birth: A nationwide birth cohort study in 336 Chinese cities. 
  • Conservation efforts may increase malaria burden in the Brazilian Amazon. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of defending against bioterrorism: a comparison of vaccination and antibiotic prophylaxis against anthrax. 
  • Democratizing health system data to impact social and environmental health contexts: a novel collaborative community data-sharing model. 
  • Detection and Quantification of Enteric Pathogens in Aerosols Near Open Wastewater Canals in Cities with Poor Sanitation. 
  • Disparities in Dental Service Utilization among Adults in Chinese Megacities: Do Health Insurance and City of Residence Matter? 
  • Electron microscopy identification of SARS-COV-2: what is the evidence? 
  • Environmental greenspace, subjective well-being, and all-cause mortality in elderly Chinese: Association and mediation study in a prospective cohort. 
  • Evidence for high molecular weight nitrogen-containing organic salts in urban aerosols. 
  • Genetic ancestry, skin color and social attainment: The four cities study. 
  • HIV Prevalence and Associated Risks in a Respondent-Driven Sample of Illicit Stimulant Users in a Southern United States City. 
  • HOME Plus: Program design and implementation of a family-focused, community-based intervention to promote the frequency and healthfulness of family meals, reduce children's sedentary behavior, and prevent obesity. 
  • Hourly Air Pollutants and Acute Coronary Syndrome Onset in 1.29 Million Patients. 
  • Impacts of implementing Healthy Building guidelines for daily PM_2.5 limit on premature deaths and economic losses in urban China: A population-based modeling study. 
  • Increasing the Uptake of HIV Testing among Men in Tanzania: A Novel Intervention for Bar Patrons. 
  • Indoor air pollution and lung function growth among children in four Chinese cities. 
  • Is there a fair distribution of the structure of dental services in the capitals of the Brazilian Federative Units? 
  • Latent class analysis of acceptability and willingness to pay for self-HIV testing in a United States urban neighbourhood with high rates of HIV infection. 
  • Life cycle assessment of nutrient recycling from wastewater: A critical review. 
  • Life-cycle energy impacts for adapting an urban water supply system to droughts. 
  • Long-term ambient air pollution levels in four Chinese cities: inter-city and intra-city concentration gradients for epidemiological studies. 
  • Long-term exposure to PM2.5 and incidence of disability in activities of daily living among oldest old. 
  • Low-Carbon Urban Water Systems: Opportunities beyond Water and Wastewater Utilities? 
  • Magnitude of urban heat islands largely explained by climate and population. 
  • Mapping Air Pollution with Google Street View Cars: Efficient Approaches with Mobile Monitoring and Land Use Regression. 
  • Maternal cortisol disproportionately impacts fetal growth in male offspring: evidence from the Philippines. 
  • Morphological characteristics of urban water bodies: mechanisms of change and implications for ecosystem function. 
  • Municipal regulation of residential landscapes across US cities: Patterns and implications for landscape sustainability. 
  • National COVID-19 vaccination plan: using artificial spatial intelligence to overcome challenges in Brazil. 
  • Nationwide trends in residential and non-residential out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and differences in bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation. 
  • Open Waste Canals as Potential Sources of Antimicrobial Resistance Genes in Aerosols in Urban Kanpur, India. 
  • Optimal design of an electrochemical reactor for blackwater treatment. 
  • Outdoor urban nanomaterials: The emergence of a new, integrated, and critical field of study. 
  • Outpatient Visits among Older Adults Living Alone in China: Does Health Insurance and City of Residence Matter? 
  • Perfluoroalkyl substances exposure in early pregnancy and preterm birth in singleton pregnancies: a prospective cohort study. 
  • Physician practice competition and prices paid by private insurers for office visits. 
  • Plant nitrogen concentration and isotopic composition in residential lawns across seven US cities. 
  • Pollutant particles produce vasoconstriction and enhance MAPK signaling via angiotensin type I receptor. 
  • Population density, distance to public transportation, and health of women in low-income neighborhoods. 
  • Primary care physicians' perceptions of barriers and facilitators to management of chronic kidney disease: A mixed methods study. 
  • Protected Areas' Impacts on Brazilian Amazon Deforestation: Examining Conservation-Development Interactions to Inform Planning. 
  • Quality of Care and Contraceptive Use in Urban Kenya. 
  • Quantitative microbial risk assessment of outdoor aerosolized pathogens in cities with poor sanitation. 
  • Redlining has led to increasing rates of nephrolithiasis in minoritized populations: a hypothesis. 
  • Reducing Indoor Levels of "Outdoor PM_2.5 " in Urban China: Impact on Mortalities. 
  • Residential household yard care practices along urban-exurban gradients in six climatically-diverse U.S. metropolitan areas. 
  • Residential mercury contamination in adobe brick homes in Huancavelica, Peru. 
  • Rural, Large Town, and Urban Differences in Optimal Subspecialty Follow-up and Survivorship Care Plan Documentation among Childhood Cancer Survivors. 
  • Season and size of urban particulate matter differentially affect cytotoxicity and human immune responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis. 
  • Sedimentary nonylphenol contamination in an urbanized, industrialized segment of the Delaware River estuary, USA. 
  • Similarities between inorganic sulfide and the strong Hg(II)-complexing ligands in municipal wastewater effluent. 
  • Site-scale Urban Water Mass Balance Assessment (SUWMBA) to quantify water performance of urban design-technology-environment configurations. 
  • Social Network Clustering and the Spread of HIV/AIDS Among Persons Who Inject Drugs in 2 Cities in the Philippines. 
  • Social and physical environments and disparities in risk for cardiovascular disease: the healthy environments partnership conceptual model. 
  • Spatial heterogeneity of PM10 and O3 in São Paulo, Brazil, and implications for human health studies. 
  • Spatial-temporal association of soil Pb and children's blood Pb in the Detroit Tri-County Area of Michigan (USA). 
  • Speciation and bioaccessibility of mercury in adobe bricks and dirt floors in Huancavelica, Peru. 
  • Suicide mortality among youth in southern Brazil: a spatiotemporal evaluation of socioeconomic vulnerability. 
  • The Impact of Socioeconomic Factors, Coverage and Access to Health on Heart Ischemic Disease Mortality in a Brazilian Southern State: A Geospatial Analysis. 
  • The Tsinghua-Lancet Commission on Healthy Cities in China: unlocking the power of cities for a healthy China. 
  • The impact of super-spreader cities, highways, and intensive care availability in the early stages of the COVID-19 epidemic in Brazil. 
  • The impact of temperature on mortality in a subtropical city: effects of cold, heat, and heat waves in São Paulo, Brazil. 
  • The quest for improved air quality may push China to continue its CO₂ reduction beyond the Paris Commitment. 
  • U.S. transgender women's preferences for microeconomic interventions to address structural determinants of HIV vulnerability: a qualitative assessment. 
  • Understanding urban water performance at the city-region scale using an urban water metabolism evaluation framework. 
  • Understanding, managing, and minimizing urban impacts on surface water nitrogen loading. 
  • Urban foodscape trends: Disparities in healthy food access in Chicago, 2007-2014. 
  • Urban-Soil Pedogenesis Drives Contrasting Legacies of Lead from Paint and Gasoline in City Soil. 
  • Urinary carboxylic acid metabolites as possible novel biomarkers of exposures to alkylated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. 
  • Use of mental health services by community-resident adults with DSM-IV anxiety and mood disorders in a violence-prone area: São Paulo, Brazil. 
  • Weathering in Detroit: Place, Race, Ethnicity, and Poverty as Conceptually Fluctuating Social Constructs Shaping Variation in Allostatic Load. 
  • Where Are Adults Active? An Examination of Physical Activity Locations Using GPS in Five US Cities. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Hsu-Kim, Heileen, Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Makhulu, Anne-Maria B., Associate Professor in the Department of Cultural Anthropology, Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship
  • Richter, Daniel D., Professor in the Division of Earth and Climate Science, Environmental Sciences and Policy