Urban Health

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Accelerated epigenetic age as a biomarker of cardiovascular sensitivity to traffic-related air pollution. 
  • Anticipated Negative Police-Youth Encounters and Depressive Symptoms among Pregnant African American Women: A Brief Report. 
  • Association of a Park-Based Violence Prevention and Mental Health Promotion After-School Program With Youth Arrest Rates. 
  • Changing fruit and vegetable consumption among children: the 5-a-Day Power Plus program in St. Paul, Minnesota. 
  • Chlordanes in the indoor and outdoor air of three U.S. cities. 
  • Chronic kidney disease in HIV infection: an urban epidemic. 
  • Cognitive and sociodemographic risk factors for mortality in the Seattle Longitudinal Study. 
  • Common cancers in India: knowledge, attitudes and behaviours of urban slum dwellers in New Delhi. 
  • Determinants of hypertension in West Africa: contribution of anthropometric and dietary factors to urban-rural and socioeconomic gradients. 
  • Diabetes-specific emotional distress among African Americans and Hispanics with type 2 diabetes. 
  • Early childhood caries: analysis of psychosocial and biological factors in a high-risk population. 
  • Effectiveness of a city-wide program to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission in Lusaka, Zambia. 
  • Emergence of Salmonella enterica serotype Paratyphi A as a major cause of enteric fever in Kathmandu, Nepal. 
  • Esophageal eosinophilia is increased in rural areas with low population density: results from a national pathology database. 
  • Ethnic subgroup differences in hypertension in Pakistan. 
  • Exploring associations between physical activity and perceived and objective measures of the built environment. 
  • Exposure and peritraumatic response as predictors of posttraumatic stress in children following the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. 
  • Facial fractures of the upper craniofacial skeleton predict mortality and occult intracranial injury after blunt trauma: an analysis. 
  • Factors associated with overweight among urban American Indian adolescents: findings from Project EAT. 
  • Fibromyalgia in rheumatology practice: a survey of Canadian rheumatologists. 
  • HIV incidence and risk behaviours after voluntary HIV counselling and testing (VCT) among adults aged 19-35 years living in peri-urban communities around Chiang Mai city in northern Thailand, 1999. 
  • Incidence and Risk of Suicide Among Patients With Head and Neck Cancer in Rural, Urban, and Metropolitan Areas. 
  • Introduction to the Special Issue of the Journal of Urban Health on Incarceration and Health. 
  • Knowledge about human papillomavirus among adolescents. 
  • Learning from 2523 trauma deaths in India- opportunities to prevent in-hospital deaths. 
  • Linking clinical and public health approaches to improve access to health care for socially disadvantaged mothers and children. A feasibility study. 
  • Making the case for school-based health: where do we stand? 
  • Mapping routine measles vaccination in low- and middle-income countries. 
  • Neighborhood clustering of non-communicable diseases: results from a community-based study in Northern Tanzania. 
  • Neighborhood structural characteristics and mental disorder: Faris and Dunham revisited. 
  • Non-AIDS-defining events among HIV-1-infected adults receiving combination antiretroviral therapy in resource-replete versus resource-limited urban setting. 
  • Perception of friends' use of alcohol, cigarettes, and marijuana among urban schoolchildren: a longitudinal analysis. 
  • Population density, distance to public transportation, and health of women in low-income neighborhoods. 
  • Pre-Pregnancy Hypertension Among Women in Rural and Urban Areas of the United States. 
  • Prevalence and Associations of Metabolic Syndrome in an Urban High Diabetes Risk Population in a Low/Middle-Income Country. 
  • Prevalence of Helicobacter pylori infection and associated factors among adults in Southern Brazil: a population-based cross-sectional study. 
  • Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in Karnataka, India. 
  • Public knowledge of automatic external defibrillators in a large U.S. urban community. 
  • Rapidly rising rates of overweight and obesity coupled with persistently high rates of undernutrition among school aged children in an urban Indo-Asian population: authors' response. 
  • Relationships of Indoor, Outdoor, and Personal Air (RIOPA). Part I. Collection methods and descriptive analyses. 
  • Reproductive and family planning history, knowledge, and needs: a community survey of low-income women in Beijing, China. 
  • Rise in childhood obesity with persistently high rates of undernutrition among urban school-aged Indo-Asian children. 
  • Risk of napping: excessive daytime sleepiness and mortality in an older community population. 
  • Root caries patterns and risk factors of middle-aged and elderly people in China. 
  • Rural-urban blood lead differences in North Carolina children. 
  • Rural-urban differences in HIV viral loads and progression to AIDS among new HIV cases. 
  • Safe to walk? Neighborhood safety and physical activity among public housing residents. 
  • Season and size of urban particulate matter differentially affect cytotoxicity and human immune responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis. 
  • Secular Trends in Meal and Snack Patterns among Adolescents from 1999 to 2010. 
  • Shifting Gears: Triage and Traffic in Urban India 
  • Small area variation in low birthweight: looking beyond socioeconomic predictors. 
  • Social inequalities in BMI trajectories: 8-year follow-up of the Pró-Saúde study in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 
  • Social inequalities, stressors and self reported health status among African American and white women in the Detroit metropolitan area. 
  • Social inequality and depressive disorders in Bahia, Brazil: interactions of gender, ethnicity, and social class. 
  • Social networks and health-related quality of life among Chinese old adults in urban areas: results from 4th National Household Health Survey. 
  • Tackling the challenges to health equity in China. 
  • Tales of the tenements: midwifery training in Glasgow. 
  • The Tsinghua-Lancet Commission on Healthy Cities in China: unlocking the power of cities for a healthy China. 
  • The blind men and the elephant: Identification of a latent maltreatment construct for youth in foster care. 
  • The effects of California Proposition 187 on ophthalmology clinic utilization at an inner-city urban hospital. 
  • The predominance of membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis in childhood nephrotic syndrome in Ibadan, Nigeria. 
  • The prevalence of and risk factors for pterygium in an urban Malay population: the Singapore Malay Eye Study (SiMES). 
  • Trends in head and neck cancer incidence in Tianjin, China, between 1981 and 2002. 
  • Urban airborne particle exposure impairs human lung and blood Mycobacterium tuberculosis immunity. 
  • Urban-Rural Mortality Disparities from Chronic Lower Respiratory Diseases in the United States, 1999-2019. 
  • Urinary tract pathogens and antimicrobial sensitivity patterns in children in Ibadan, Nigeria. 
  • Using technology to promote postpartum weight loss in urban, low-income mothers: a pilot randomized controlled trial. 
  • Whole genome sequencing identifies circulating Beijing-lineage Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains in Guatemala and an associated urban outbreak. 
  • Workers' compensation experience of North Carolina residential construction workers, 1986-1994. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Bennett, Vann, George Barth Geller Distinguished Professor of Molecular Biology, Duke Cancer Institute