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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A 35-Year Evolution of Free Flap-Based Breast Reconstruction at a Large Urban Academic Center. 
  • A Novel Tool for Evaluation of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Patients in the Emergency Department: Does Robotic Assessment of Neuromotor Performance Following Injury Predict the Presence of Postconcussion Symptoms at Follow-up? 
  • A cancer incidence survey in Tianjin: the third largest city in China-between 1981 and 2000. 
  • A case-control method for assessing environmental risks from multiple industrial point sources. 
  • A community-based smoking-cessation program: self-care behaviors and success. 
  • A motivational intervention can improve retention in PCIT for low-motivation child welfare clients. 
  • A novel approach for measuring residential socioeconomic factors associated with cardiovascular and metabolic health. 
  • A novel enoxaparin regime for ST elevation myocardial infarction patients undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention: a WEST sub-study. 
  • A participatory action research pilot study of urban health disparities using rapid assessment response and evaluation. 
  • A protocol for a discrete choice experiment: understanding preferences of patients with cancer towards their cancer care across metropolitan and rural regions in Australia. 
  • A qualitative analysis of partner selection, HIV serostatus disclosure, and sexual behaviors among HIV-positive urban men. 
  • A simple method for estimating the prevalence of undiagnosed HIV infection in an emergency department. 
  • A single urban center experience with adult pedestrians struck by motor vehicles. 
  • Ability to generate patient registries among practices with and without electronic health records. 
  • Accelerometer-measured physical activity among older adults in urban India: Results of a study on global AGEing and adult health substudy. 
  • Access to ophthalmologic care in Thailand: a regional analysis. 
  • Accidental communities: race, emergency medicine, and the problem of polyheme. 
  • Adapting hypertension self-management interventions to enhance their sustained effectiveness among urban African Americans. 
  • Addiction, drinking behavior, and driving under the influence. 
  • Additional analyses of the seven city lead study. 
  • Adequate access to healthcare and added life expectancy among older adults in China. 
  • Adjustment of iron intake for dietary enhancers and inhibitors in population studies: bioavailable iron in rural and urban residing Russian women and children. 
  • Adolescent expectancies, parent-adolescent communication and intentions to have sexual intercourse among inner-city, middle school youth. 
  • Adolescent vegetarians: how well do their dietary patterns meet the healthy people 2010 objectives? 
  • Alcohol abuse and dependence in the rural South. 
  • Ambulatory high-dose methotrexate administration among pediatric osteosarcoma patients in an urban, underserved setting is feasible, safe, and cost-effective. 
  • An exploration of lifetime trauma exposure in pregnant low-income African American women 
  • Anterior chamber dimensions and posterior corneal arc length in Malay eyes: an anterior segment optical coherence tomography study. 
  • Are Hospice Admission Practices Associated With Hospice Enrollment for Older African Americans and Whites? 
  • Are neighborhood education levels associated with BMI among adults in Cairo, Egypt? 
  • Association Between Diabetes and Cause-Specific Mortality in Rural and Urban Areas of China. 
  • Association Between Symptom Burden and Time to Hospitalization, Nursing Home Placement, and Death Among the Chronically Ill Urban Homebound. 
  • Association between Dying Experience and Place of Death: Urban-Rural Differences among Older Chinese Adults. 
  • Association between access to health-promoting facilities and participation in cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk screening among populations with low socioeconomic status (SES) in Singapore. 
  • Association between the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 and patient wait times and travel distance for chemotherapy. 
  • Association of community food environment and obesity among US adults: a geographical information system analysis. 
  • Association of obesity with patient-reported outcomes in patients with axial spondyloarthritis: a cross-sectional study in an urban Asian population. 
  • Associations Between Peer Network Gender Norms and the Perpetration of Intimate Partner Violence Among Urban Tanzanian Men: a Multilevel Analysis. 
  • Associations of neighborhood concentrated poverty, neighborhood racial/ethnic composition, and indoor allergen exposures: a cross-sectional analysis of los angeles households, 2006-2008. 
  • Availability of Foods and Beverages in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-Authorized Dollar Stores in a Region of North Carolina. 
  • Barriers and facilitators to home computer and internet use among urban novice computer users of low socioeconomic position. 
  • Barriers to accessing TB diagnosis for rural-to-urban migrants with chronic cough in Chongqing, China: a mixed methods study. 
  • Barriers to influenza immunization in a low-income urban population. 
  • Black-white and urban-rural differences in stability of household composition among elderly persons. 
  • Blindness and visual impairment in an urban West African population: the Tema Eye Survey. 
  • Breastfeeding and the Verbal Ability of Three-Year-Olds in a Multi-City Sample 
  • Caesarean section rates in Mozambique. 
  • Cardiovascular disease research and the development agenda in low- and middle-income countries. 
  • Cardiovascular health in young adulthood and structural brain MRI in midlife: The CARDIA study. 
  • Cervical Cancer Screening Knowledge and Behavior among Women Attending an Urban HIV Clinic in Western Kenya. 
  • Changes and equity in use of maternal health care in China: from 1991 to 2003. 
  • Changes in health expenditures in China in 2000s: has the health system reform improved affordability. 
  • Changes in primary medical care delivery, 1975-1979: findings from the physician capacity utilization surveys. 
  • Changes in the associations of race and rurality with SARS-CoV-2 infection, mortality, and case fatality in the United States from February 2020 to March 2021: A population-based cohort study. 
  • Changes in tobacco smoking following treatment for cocaine dependence. 
  • Characteristics of the built environment and spatial patterning of type 2 diabetes in the urban core of Durham, North Carolina. 
  • Childhood Daily Energy Expenditure Does Not Decrease with Market Integration and Is Not Related to Adiposity in Amazonia. 
  • Childhood trauma is associated with depressive symptoms in Mexico City women. 
  • Children's respiratory morbidity prevalence in relation to air pollution in four Chinese cities. 
  • City directories as sources for survey work in low- and middle-income black communities. 
  • Clinical epidemiology of urban violence: responding to children exposed to violence in ten communities. 
  • Clinically significant depressive symptoms and associated factors in community elderly subjects from Sao Paulo, Brazil. 
  • Community-based HCV screening: knowledge and attitudes in a high risk urban population. 
  • Comparing Effects of FOXO3 and Residing in Urban Areas on Longevity: A Gene-Environment Interaction Study. 
  • Comparing Palliative Care Knowledge in Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Areas of the United States: Results from a National Survey. 
  • Comparing Perceptions with Actual Reports of Close Friend's HIV Testing Behavior Among Urban Tanzanian Men. 
  • Comparison of Delay Times from Symptom Onset to Medical Contact in Blacks Versus Whites With Acute Myocardial Infarction. 
  • Comparison of altitude effect on Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection between rural and urban communities in Peru. 
  • Concordance of Advance Care Plans With Inpatient Directives in the Electronic Medical Record for Older Patients Admitted From the Emergency Department. 
  • Connecting Mentally Ill Detainees in Large Urban Jails with Community Care. 
  • Conservation efforts may increase malaria burden in the Brazilian Amazon. 
  • Cooking fuels and risk of all-cause and cardiopulmonary mortality in urban China: a prospective cohort study. 
  • Costs of a community-based glaucoma detection programme: analysis of the Philadelphia Glaucoma Detection and Treatment Project. 
  • Counseling Spanish-speaking patients: Atlanta pharmacists' cultural sensitivity, use of language-assistance services, and attitudes. 
  • County-level cumulative environmental quality associated with cancer incidence. 
  • Cumulative Effects of Neighborhood Social Adversity and Personal Crime Victimization on Adolescent Psychotic Experiences. 
  • Demographic and Regional Trends of Mortality in Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction in the United States, 1999 to 2019. 
  • Demographic patterns of blood donors and donations in a large metropolitan area. 
  • Demographic variations in blood donor deferrals in a major metropolitan area. 
  • Dental service utilization among urban and rural older adults in China -- a brief communication. 
  • Diet and physical activity patterns of urban American Indian women. 
  • Dietary intake polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and associated cancer risk in a cohort of Chinese urban adults: Inter- and intra-individual variability. 
  • Dietary patterns and their association with hypertension among Pakistani urban adults. 
  • Dietary patterns differ between urban and rural older, long-term survivors of breast, prostate, and colorectal cancer and are associated with body mass index. 
  • Discrete improvement in racial disparity in survival among patients with stage IV colorectal cancer: a 21-year population-based analysis. 
  • Disentangling measures of individual perceptions of community social dynamics: results of a community survey. 
  • Disparities in stage at diagnosis for five common cancers in China: a multicentre, hospital-based, observational study. 
  • Disparity in reimbursement for tuberculosis care among different health insurance schemes: evidence from three counties in central China. 
  • Divergent trends in life expectancy across the rural-urban gradient and association with specific racial proportions in the contiguous USA 2000-2005. 
  • Do Adult Medicaid Enrollees Prefer Going to Their Primary Care Provider's Clinic Rather Than Emergency Department (ED) for Low Acuity Conditions? 
  • Does health insurance impact health service utilization among older adults in urban China? A nationwide cross-sectional study. 
  • Duration of Dermatitis Before Patch Test Appointment Is Associated With Distance to Clinic and County Poverty Rate. 
  • Dynamics of rural-urban migration in India: 1960-1981. 
  • Early life growth, socioeconomic status, and mammographic breast density in an urban US birth cohort. 
  • Effect of a multifaceted intervention on use of evidence-based therapies in patients with acute coronary syndromes in Brazil: the BRIDGE-ACS randomized trial. 
  • Effect of socioeconomic status on food availability and cost of the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) dietary pattern. 
  • Effectiveness of Task-Shifted Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Children Who Experienced Parental Death and Posttraumatic Stress in Kenya and Tanzania: A Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • Effects of air pollution on children's respiratory health in three Chinese cities. 
  • Effects of air pollution on respiratory health of adults in three Chinese cities. 
  • Effects of the status of women on the first-birth interval in Indian urban society. 
  • Efficacy of iron-supplement bars to reduce anemia in urban Indian women: a cluster-randomized controlled trial. 
  • Emergency Department Attending Physician Variation in Opioid Prescribing in Low Acuity Back Pain. 
  • Emergency department visits among patients transported by law enforcement officers. 
  • Emergency severity index triage category is associated with six-month survival. ESI Triage Study Group. 
  • Environmental factors in cancer: focus on air pollution. 
  • Equity in access to healthcare among the urban elderly in China: does health insurance matter? 
  • Ethnic/racial differences in weight-related concerns and behaviors among adolescent girls and boys: findings from Project EAT. 
  • Evaluation of diet quality and weight status of children from a low socioeconomic urban environment supports "at risk" classification. 
  • Exercise and pregnancy outcome among urban, low-income, black women. 
  • Exercise participation before and during pregnancy among low-income, urban, Black women: the Baltimore Preterm Birth Study. 
  • Exploring cancer support needs for older African-American men with prostate cancer. 
  • Exploring social contextual correlates of computer ownership and frequency of use among urban, low-income, public housing adult residents. 
  • Exploring the experiences of violence among individuals who are homeless using a consumer-led approach. 
  • Exposure-response relationships between lifetime exposure to residential coal smoke and respiratory symptoms and illnesses in Chinese children. 
  • Exposures to lead-based paint dust in an inner-city high school. 
  • Factors associated with consumption of alcohol in older adults - a comparison between two cultures, China and Norway: the CLHLS and the HUNT-study. 
  • Factors associated with elevated consumption of alcohol in older adults-comparison between China and Norway: the CLHLS and the HUNT Study. 
  • Factors associated with suboptimal analgesic use in community-dwelling elderly. 
  • Female sex workers in three cities in Russia: HIV prevalence, risk factors and experience with targeted HIV prevention. 
  • Fibroblast Growth Factor 23 Is Associated With Carotid Plaque Presence and Area: The Northern Manhattan Study. 
  • Fibroblast Growth Factor 23 and Cause-Specific Mortality in the General Population: The Northern Manhattan Study. 
  • Fibroblast Growth Factor-23 and a Vegetarian Diet. 
  • Financial burden of healthcare for cancer patients with social medical insurance: a multi-centered study in urban China. 
  • Fine organic particulate matter dominates indoor-generated PM2.5 in RIOPA homes. 
  • Focus groups with working parents of school-aged children: what's needed to improve family meals? 
  • Following the call: how providers make sense of their decisions to work in faith-based and secular urban community health centers. 
  • Frequency of abnormal carbohydrate metabolism and diabetes in a population-based screening of adolescents. 
  • Functional disability among elderly blacks and whites in two diverse areas: the New Haven and North Carolina EPESE. Established Populations for the Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly. 
  • Gay identity, interpersonal violence, and HIV risk behaviors: an empirical test of theoretical relationships among a probability-based sample of urban men who have sex with men. 
  • Gender differences in the association between migration and cognitive function among older adults in China and India. 
  • General practitioners' approach to hypertension in urban Pakistan: disturbing trends in practice. 
  • Genetic risk factors for perinatally acquired HIV-1 infection. 
  • Genotypic and Spatial Analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Transmission in a High-Incidence Urban Setting. 
  • Geographic clustering of elevated blood heavy metal levels in pregnant women. 
  • Glioma incidence and survival variations by county-level socioeconomic measures. 
  • Global Prevalence of Myopia and High Myopia and Temporal Trends from 2000 through 2050. 
  • Global self-ratings of health and mortality: hazard in the North Carolina Piedmont. 
  • HIV risk and associations of HIV infection among men who have sex with men in peri-urban Cape Town, South Africa. 
  • HIV-related stigma among an urban sample of persons living with HIV at risk for dropping out of HIV-oriented primary medical care. 
  • Head Injuries in School-Age Children Who Play Golf. 
  • Health and wages: evidence on men and women in urban Brazil. 
  • Health equity in transition from planned to market economy in China. 
  • Heart disease epidemic in Pakistan: women and men at equal risk. 
  • Heterogeneous HIV testing preferences in an urban setting in Tanzania: results from a discrete choice experiment. 
  • High cumulative incidence of uterine leiomyoma in black and white women: ultrasound evidence. 
  • Hospitalisation among the elderly in urban China. 
  • How Bachelorhood and Migration Increase the HIV Transmission Risk Through Commercial Sex in China? 
  • Human rights abuses and suicidal ideation among male injecting drug users in Delhi, India. 
  • Impact of Postdischarge Follow-Up Care on Medicare Expenditures: Does Rural Make a Difference? 
  • Impact of a low intensity and broadly inclusive ED care coordination intervention on linkage to primary care and ED utilization. 
  • Impact of an educational programme on reproductive health among young migrant female workers in Shenzhen, China: an intervention study. 
  • Incidence and remission of insomnia among elderly adults in a biracial cohort. 
  • Indications for routine repeat head computed tomography (CT) stratified by severity of traumatic brain injury. 
  • Individual-level factors attributable to urban-rural disparity in mortality among older adults in China. 
  • Indoor air pollution and lung function growth among children in four Chinese cities. 
  • Inequity in healthcare needs, health service use and financial burden of medical expenditures in China: results from a consecutive household monitoring study in Jiangsu Province. 
  • Influence of ambient (outdoor) sources on residential indoor and personal PM2.5 concentrations: analyses of RIOPA data. 
  • Internet education of African American consumers on quality of care. 
  • Interpreting the empirical evidence on illegal gun market dynamics. 
  • Is access to neighborhood green space associated with BMI among Egyptians? A multilevel study of Cairo neighborhoods. 
  • Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Associated with Chronic Kidney Disease in Northern Tanzania: A Community-Based Study. 
  • Latent possibility for a change of the fertility behaviors of rural-urban migrants. 
  • Life satisfaction and preterm birth among urban black women: findings from the Baltimore preterm birth study. 
  • Limits of the Health Plan Employer Data Information Set (HEDIS) criteria in determining asthma severity for children, applied to an impoverished, urban population. 
  • Living alongside more affluent neighbors predicts greater involvement in antisocial behavior among low-income boys. 
  • Longitudinal Change in Central Corneal Thickness in the Tema Eye Survey. 
  • Low discretionary time as a barrier to physical activity and intervention uptake. 
  • Magnitude of urban heat islands largely explained by climate and population. 
  • Major eye diseases and risk factors associated with systemic hypertension in an adult Chinese population: the Beijing Eye Study. 
  • Maternal work hours and adolescents' school outcomes among low-income families in four urban counties. 
  • Migration patterns of recent medical school graduates. 
  • Modernization and consanguineous marriage in Beirut. 
  • Mortality Trends in Colorectal Cancer in China During 2000-2015: A Joinpoint Regression and Age-Period-Cohort Analysis. 
  • Mortality recovery and stabilization in Kazakhstan, 1995-2001. 
  • Mothers' perspectives on the quality of postpartum care in Central Shanghai, China. 
  • Moving beyond disclosure: women's perspectives on barriers and motivators to seeking assistance for intimate partner violence. 
  • Multilevel examination of diabetes in modernising China: what elements of urbanisation are most associated with diabetes? 
  • Multiple risk factors in the development of externalizing behavior problems: group and individual differences. 
  • Neighborhood racial composition, neighborhood poverty, and the spatial accessibility of supermarkets in metropolitan Detroit. 
  • Newborn care training of midwives and neonatal and perinatal mortality rates in a developing country. 
  • Obstructive lung disease among the urban homeless. 
  • Ocular biometry in an urban Indian population: the Singapore Indian Eye Study (SINDI). 
  • Onset and persistence of postpartum depression in an inner-city maternal health clinic system. 
  • Out-of-Pocket Spending for Ambulatory Physical Therapy Services From 2008 to 2012: National Panel Survey. 
  • Outcomes from a group intervention for coping with HIV/AIDS and childhood sexual abuse: reductions in traumatic stress. 
  • Outcomes of Children With Critical Bronchiolitis Living in Poor Communities. 
  • Outcomes of Treatment of Gestational Trophoblastic Neoplasia in a Primarily Indigent Urban Population. 
  • Ozone in urban China: Impact on mortalities and approaches for establishing indoor guideline concentrations. 
  • Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury: Families and Healthcare Team Interaction Trajectories During Acute Hospitalization. 
  • Peer network influence on intimate partner violence perpetration among urban Tanzanian men. 
  • Perchlorate exposure in lactating women in an urban community in New Jersey. 
  • Perinatal HIV infection and the effect of zidovudine therapy on transmission in rural and urban counties. 
  • Peripheral arterial testing before lower extremity amputation among Medicare beneficiaries, 2000 to 2010. 
  • Personal history of voluntary HIV counseling and testing (VCT) among adults aged 19-35 years living in peri-urban communities, Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand. 
  • Pilot Integration of HIV Screening and Healthcare Settings with Multi- Component Social Network and Partner Testing for HIV Detection. 
  • Place of Residence and Cognitive Function among the Adult Population in India. 
  • Place of death by region and urbanization among gynecologic cancer patients: 2006-2016. 
  • Plasma FGF23 and the risk of stroke: the Northern Manhattan Study (NOMAS). 
  • Posttraumatic Symptom Reporting and Reported Cigarette Smoking During Pregnancy. 
  • Predictors and reproducibility of urinary organophosphate ester metabolite concentrations during pregnancy and associations with birth outcomes in an urban population. 
  • Predictors of longevity: evidence from the oldest old in China. 
  • Predictors of treatment engagement in ethnically diverse, urban children receiving treatment for trauma exposure. 
  • Preliminary evidence on retention rates of primary care physicians in rural and urban areas. 
  • Preliminary program evaluation of emergency department HIV prevention counseling. 
  • Prevalence and causes of visual impairment and blindness in an urban Indian population: the Singapore Indian Eye Study. 
  • Prevalence and determinants of blood pressure screening in Pakistan. 
  • Prevalence and predictors of major depression in HIV-infected patients on antiretroviral therapy in Bamenda, a semi-urban center in Cameroon. 
  • Prevalence and risk factors for age-related macular degeneration in Indians: a comparative study in Singapore and India. 
  • Prevalence and risk factors for refractive errors in the Singapore Malay Eye Survey. 
  • Prevalence and risk factors of diabetic retinopathy in migrant Indians in an urbanized society in Asia: the Singapore Indian eye study. 
  • Prevalence and risk factors of meibomian gland dysfunction: the Singapore Malay eye study. 
  • Prevalence and risk factors of ocular trauma in an urban south-east Asian population: the Singapore Malay Eye Study. 
  • Prevalence and risk factors of undercorrected refractive errors among Singaporean Malay adults: the Singapore Malay Eye Study. 
  • Prevalence of Diabetic Retinopathy and Blindness in Indonesian Adults With Type 2 Diabetes. 
  • Prevalence of cataract surgery and post-surgical visual outcomes in an urban Asian population: the Singapore Malay Eye Study. 
  • Prevalence of depression and associated risk factors among persons with type-2 diabetes mellitus without a prior psychiatric history: a cross-sectional study in clinical settings in urban Nepal. 
  • Prevalence of glaucoma in an urban West African population: the Tema Eye Survey. 
  • Prevalence of undiagnosed depression among persons with hypertension and associated risk factors: a cross-sectional study in urban Nepal. 
  • Prevalence survey of cytomegalovirus infection in children in Chengdu. 
  • Prevalence, awareness, and control of hypertension among Asian Indians living in urban Singapore and rural India. 
  • Prevalence, subtypes, severity and determinants of ocular trauma: The Singapore Chinese Eye Study. 
  • Pricing strategy to promote fruit and vegetable purchase in high school cafeterias. 
  • Program design and evaluation strategies for the Special Projects of National Significance Outreach Initiative. 
  • Propensity score interval matching: using bootstrap confidence intervals for accommodating estimation errors of propensity scores. 
  • Proteinuria in South Asian children: prevalence and determinants. 
  • Provider and patient drivers of ototopical antibiotic prescription variability. 
  • Psychiatric advance directives among public mental health consumers in five U.S. cities: prevalence, demand, and correlates. 
  • Psychiatric disorders. A rural/urban comparison. 
  • Psychosocial risk factors and urban/rural differences in the prevalence of major depression. 
  • Psychosocial stressors and low birthweight in an urban population. 
  • Quality of Care and Contraceptive Use in Urban Kenya. 
  • Quality of life in China rural-to-urban female migrant factory workers: a before-and-after study. 
  • Race, clinical factors and pre-term birth in a low-income urban setting. 
  • Race, psychosocial vulnerability and social support differences in inner-city women's symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Race-Ethnicity, Poverty, Urban Stressors, and Telomere Length in a Detroit Community-based Sample. 
  • Racial Differences in the Associations Between Food Insecurity and Fibroblast Growth Factor 23 in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults Study. 
  • Racial differences in the built environment--body mass index relationship? A geospatial analysis of adolescents in urban neighborhoods. 
  • Rapid changes in the gut microbiome during human evolution. 
  • Reasons for quitting smoking among low-income African American smokers. 
  • Recommendations from overweight youth regarding school-based weight control programs. 
  • Reductions in alcohol and cocaine use following a group coping intervention for HIV-positive adults with childhood sexual abuse histories. 
  • Reform of how health care is paid for in China: challenges and opportunities. 
  • Reform of the Chinese health care financing system. 
  • Relationship type, condom use and HIV/AIDS risks among men who have sex with men in six Chinese cities. 
  • Relationships between personal, indoor, and outdoor exposures to trace elements in PM(2.5). 
  • Relevance of the ADAM and UK Small Aneurysm trial data in the age of endovascular aneurysm repair. 
  • Reliability and One-Year Stability of the PIN3 Neighborhood Environmental Audit in Urban and Rural Neighborhoods. 
  • Religion and HIV in Tanzania: influence of religious beliefs on HIV stigma, disclosure, and treatment attitudes. 
  • Research With Children Exposed to Partner Violence: Perspectives of Service-Mandated, CPS- and Court-Involved Survivors on Research With Their Children. 
  • Residential Mobility and Cognitive Function Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults in China. 
  • Residential air exchange rates in three major US metropolitan areas: results from the Relationship Among Indoor, Outdoor, and Personal Air Study 1999-2001. 
  • Residential household yard care practices along urban-exurban gradients in six climatically-diverse U.S. metropolitan areas. 
  • Retinal vascular tortuosity, blood pressure, and cardiovascular risk factors. 
  • Rising cesarean delivery rate in primiparous women in urban China: evidence from three nationwide household health surveys. 
  • Running the Numbers: County Level Dynamics of Heroin Mortality in North Carolina. 
  • Rural Residence and Antihypertensive Medication Use in US Stroke Survivors. 
  • Rural and urban differences in treatment status among children with surgical conditions in Uganda. 
  • Rural health disparities in melanoma staging and prognostic outcomes in Iowa. 
  • Rural-Urban Differences in the Effect of Follow-Up Care on Postdischarge Outcomes. 
  • Rural-urban differences in health behaviors and outcomes among older, overweight, long-term cancer survivors in the RENEW randomized control trial. 
  • Rural-urban differences in preventable hospitalizations among community-dwelling veterans with dementia. 
  • Satisfaction With Life, Coping, and Spirituality Among Urban Families. 
  • Screening of child behavior problems for prevention programs at school entry 
  • Self-Reported Health Among Recently Incarcerated Mothers. 
  • Self-reported diabetes education among Chinese middle-aged and older adults with diabetes. 
  • Sensitivity, specificity, and predictive values of screening tests for eye conditions in a clinic-based population. 
  • Sexual behavior and reproductive health among HIV-infected patients in urban and rural South Africa. 
  • Shifting Gears: Triage and Traffic in Urban India 
  • Shigellosis in the United States: ten-year review of nationwide surveillance, 1964-1973. 
  • Short-term outcomes of splenectomy avoidance in trauma patients. 
  • Similar secondary stroke prevention and medication persistence rates among rural and urban patients. 
  • Singapore Indian Eye Study-2: methodology and impact of migration on systemic and eye outcomes. 
  • Social Network Influence on HIV Testing Among Urban Men in Tanzania. 
  • Social environment and HIV risk among MSM in Hanoi and Thai Nguyen. 
  • Social functioning in urban, predominantly African American, socially disadvantaged patients with first-episode nonaffective psychosis. 
  • Social injustice symposium: Urban, rural, and global disparities in access to care. 
  • Sociodemographic and Kidney Disease Correlates of Nutrient Intakes Among Urban African Americans With Uncontrolled Hypertension. 
  • Sociodemographic, lifestyle, and medical risk factors for visual impairment in an urban asian population: the singapore malay eye study. 
  • Socioeconomic disparities in the prevalence of work-related injuries among adolescents in the United States. 
  • Socioeconomic status and alcohol use among urban and rural residents in China. 
  • Socioeconomic status and obesity in Cairo, Egypt: a heavy burden for all. 
  • Soft drink consumption among US children and adolescents: nutritional consequences. 
  • Somatization symptoms in the community: a rural/urban comparison. 
  • Soy intake and breast cancer risk: a prospective study of 300,000 Chinese women and a dose-response meta-analysis. 
  • Suicide in Nepal: a modified psychological autopsy investigation from randomly selected police cases between 2013 and 2015. 
  • Surgical need among the ageing population of Uganda. 
  • Television viewing and pedometer-determined physical activity among multiethnic residents of low-income housing. 
  • The Great Smoky Mountains Study of Youth. Goals, design, methods, and the prevalence of DSM-III-R disorders. 
  • The Initiation of Rehabilitation Therapies and Observed Outcomes in Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury. 
  • The Prevalence and Types of Glaucoma in an Urban Chinese Population: The Singapore Chinese Eye Study. 
  • The Relationship Between Weight Loss and Health-related Quality of Life in a Serbian Population. 
  • The Tuskegee Legacy Project: willingness of minorities to participate in biomedical research. 
  • The Worcester Venous Thromboembolism study: a population-based study of the clinical epidemiology of venous thromboembolism. 
  • The association of age and depression among the elderly: an epidemiologic exploration. 
  • The associations between environmental quality and preterm birth in the United States, 2000-2005: a cross-sectional analysis. 
  • The cost-effectiveness of typhoid Vi vaccination programs: calculations for four urban sites in four Asian countries. 
  • The effect of cocaine abuse on birth weight and gestational age. 
  • The effects of China's universal two-child policy. 
  • The effects of household management practices on the global warming potential of urban lawns. 
  • The effects of residential proximity to bars on alcohol consumption. 
  • The emergency severity index triage algorithm version 2 is reliable and valid. 
  • The feasibility of a clinic-based parent intervention to prevent HIV, sexually transmitted infections, and unintended pregnancies among Latino and African American adolescents. 
  • The healthy migrant effect: new findings from the Mexican Family Life Survey. 
  • The impact of classroom aggression on the development of aggressive behavior problems in children 
  • The impact of highly active antiretroviral therapy on activities of daily living in HIV-infected adults in South Africa. 
  • The impact of human immunodeficiency virus infection on drug-resistant tuberculosis. 
  • The impact of methamphetamine ("tik") on a peri-urban community in Cape Town, South Africa. 
  • The impact of residential status on cognitive decline among older adults in China: Results from a longitudinal study. 
  • The influence of rural versus urban residence on utilization and receipt of care for chronic low back pain. 
  • The prevalence and risk factors of ocular trauma: the Singapore Indian eye study. 
  • The prevalence and types of glaucoma in an urban Indian population: the Singapore Indian Eye Study. 
  • The relationship between attending alcohol serving venues nearby versus distant to one's residence and sexual risk taking in a South African township. 
  • The role of relationship types on condom use among urban men with concurrent partners in Ghana and Tanzania. 
  • The role of social norms and friends' influences on unhealthy weight-control behaviors among adolescent girls. 
  • The stability of psychopathy across adolescence. 
  • The structure of urban mortality. A methodological study of Hannover, Germany. Part I. 
  • The structure of urban mortality. A methodological study of Hannover, Germany. Part II. 
  • The use of penicillin skin testing to assess the prevalence of penicillin allergy in an emergency department setting. 
  • Tobacco use among Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders, and mixed-race individuals: 2002-2010. 
  • Trends in and socio-demographic factors associated with caesarean section at a Tanzanian referral hospital, 2000 to 2013. 
  • Trends in heart failure-related cardiovascular mortality in rural versus urban United States counties, 2011-2018: A cross-sectional study. 
  • Trends in the incidence rates of nasopharyngeal carcinoma among Chinese Americans living in Los Angeles County and the San Francisco metropolitan area, 1992-2002. 
  • Types and severity of partner violence against women living in the community in Cali, Colombia 
  • U.S. regional differences in physical distancing: Evaluating racial and socioeconomic divides during the COVID-19 pandemic. 
  • Undermet needs for assistance in personal activities of daily living among community-dwelling oldest old in China from 2005 to 2008. 
  • Unfair treatment, neighborhood effects, and mental health in the Detroit metropolitan area. 
  • Unintended pregnancy and induced abortion among unmarried women in China: a systematic review. 
  • Unintended pregnancy and preterm birth. 
  • Upstream watershed condition predicts rural children's health across 35 developing countries. 
  • Urban Classification, Not COVID-19 Community Rates, Was Associated With Modes of Learning in US K-12 Schools? 
  • Urban teens: Trauma, posttraumatic growth, and emotional distress among female adolescents. 
  • Urban, individuals of color are impacted by fentanyl-contaminated heroin. 
  • Urban-Rural Disparities in Pulmonary Hypertension Mortality. 
  • Urban-rural differences in excess mortality among high-poverty populations: evidence from the Harlem Household Survey and the Pitt County, North Carolina Study of African American Health. 
  • Urban-rural differences in the association between access to healthcare and health outcomes among older adults in China. 
  • Urban-rural, age and gender differences in health behaviours in the Chinese population: findings from a survey in Hubei, China. 
  • Urinary Amino-Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Urban Residents: Finding a Biomarker for Residential Exposure to Diesel Traffic. 
  • Use of mobile phones for improving vaccination coverage among children living in rural hard-to-reach areas and urban streets of Bangladesh. 
  • Visual acuity and mortality in a chinese population. The Tanjong Pagar Study. 
  • Weight-loss practices, nutrition beliefs, and weight-loss program preferences of urban American Indian women. 
  • Who's crazy in Manhattan: a reexamination of "treatment of psychological disorders among urban children". 
  • Why Are Children in Urban Neighborhoods at Increased Risk for Psychotic Symptoms? Findings From a UK Longitudinal Cohort Study. 
  • Words can hurt: The effects of physical and psychological partner violence on condom negotiation and condom use among young women. 
  • Young children enforce social norms selectively depending on the violator's group affiliation. 
  • Youths' involvement with guns: motivation vs availability. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Pang, Herbert, Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Sampson, John Howard, Robert H., M.D. and Gloria Wilkins Professor of Neurosurgery, in the School of Medicine, Biomedical Engineering
  • Wu, Li-Tzy, Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine