Mailman school researchers studying link between obesity and the urban environment
... results, Dr. Rundle found that people who live in neighborhoods that have a mixture of residential and commercial ...ve lower levels of obesity than people who live in neighborhoods that are closer to being 100 percent residential. "The more mixed an area, the skinnier people are,"...Former smoker-led intervention program helps women quit
...nrolled 150 women from four Augusta public housing neighborhoods Underwood Homes, Delta Manor, Dogwood Terrace and...on and treatment neighborhoods, but only treatment neighborhoods feature group sessions with a community health worker....Half of active children pursue non-traditional physical activities
...her the physical structures that favor exercise in neighborhoods influence the physical activity levels of children... rates. Children in predominantly African-American neighborhoods tended not to bike or walk around their neighborhood or to activity locations, and also participated...Severe periodontal disease is more frequent among socioeconomically disadvantaged individuals
...s that low-income Whites residing in disadvantaged neighborhoods had almost twice the odds of experiencing severe periodontitis than high-income Whites living in high-socioeconomic status neighborhoods. This is the first study of its kind to investigate neighborhood effects on periodontal disease, although it had...Parents' impressions of neighborhood safety linked to children's weight
Children who live in neighborhoods that their parents believe are unsafe are more likely to be overweight than those in neighborhoods perceived as safe, according to a study in the January issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent ...Cervical cancer screening failure linked to poverty
...ity outreach programs should focus on high poverty neighborhoods to decrease the proportion of black women who are not adhering to cervical cancer screening recommendations."...Toward the future of cancer prevention
...ower educational levels. "We know that poor neighborhoods often do not have grocery stores with fresh vegetables and fruit, but only convenience stores that primarily sell snack food, cigarettes and alcohol," Wetter says. "There are often no sidewalks, so it is not safe to walk. These factors set up conditi...Increased suicide rate with possible link to nearby industry chemicals in second N.C. community
...94 through 2003, the suicide rate in two Salisbury neighborhoods was found to be 38.4 per 100,000 individuals a year, roughly three times the statewide average. That study was presented to the 17th Annual U.S. Psychiatric and Mental Health Congress in 2004 and at the National Institute of Mental Health New Clinica...Researcher says flu responders can learn from 1918 epidemic
... that people will sit pat in the projects and poor neighborhoods of our country and watch as their family and friends, their very communities, die? I don't see why there wouldn't be civil unrest." What is certainly likely to repeat itself is the swiftness with which the flu raced through communities. In many ...Weight-loss surgery increasing, except for the poor
...le. Surgical treatment for those from less wealthy neighborhoods also increased but at a much slower pace. The authors found that despite a shift toward higher-risk patients, in-hospital complications remained stable and length of hospital stay decreased from 4.5 days in 1998 to 3.3 days in 2002. As obesity spread...UCSD leads team to build Geographic Information System to assess toxic hazards from Katrina
... as well as maps and satellite images of schools, neighborhoods and medical facilities. The information will then be overlaid with demographic information on local populations. "We will bring on line 40 terrabytes of storage capability. To put this in context, all the texts in the Library of Congress would equal...Study shows Hurricane Katrina affected 20,000 physicians, up to 6,000 may have been displaced
... in the community health centers within the poorer neighborhoods of New Orleans. "Reconstructing those records is really going to be extra difficult," he said. Ricketts said one possibly positive result of the disasters could be greater support for electronic medical records. Also, some health-care officials may s...Air pollution found to pose greater danger to health than earlier thought
...iculate matter, called PM2.5 for short, across the neighborhoods of Los Angeles. It is often found in smoke, vehicle exhaust, industrial emissions and haze, driven by the burning of fossil fuels. Scientists also tracked ozone pollution, but found no link between ozone levels and mortality. Increased deaths from he...NYU Child Study Center raises over $165,000 at Picnic for ParentCorps
...en and families from New York's most disadvantaged neighborhoods turn their lives around. In New York City alone there are 10,000 students suspended from school each year, mostly for aggressive or violent behaviors. ParentCorps' 26-week parenting program decreases aggressive behavior in preschoolers, preventing be...Researchers model avian flu outbreak, impact of interventions
...he strain that emerges, quarantining the houses or neighborhoods of infected people, and combinations of these approaches. Giving a low-efficacy vaccine to just half the population before the start of a pandemic would greatly enhance the success of other containment strategies, according to the model. Longini r...NYU Child Study Center to hold picnic for ParentCorps
...en and families from New York's most disadvantaged neighborhoods turn their lives around. Picnic guests will include Liz Robbins; Allen Grubman; Benjamin Lambert; Beth Rudin DeWoody; Byron Wien; Robert Wiesenthal; Eric Ruttenberg and Perri Peltz; Steven Rubenstein; Anne Keating, Senior Vice President, Public Relat...Swamped city: New Orleans and nature
...entimes, the flooding tended to impact the poorest neighborhoods the most not because floods are selective, but because people with the fewest resources tend to live in the most flood-prone areas where no one else wanted to live," he said. "Meanwhile, the wealthy would live uptown or up on the natural levee." I...Study ties risk of problem gambling with proximity to casinos and other gambling opportunities
... Welte said respondents living in disadvantaged neighborhoods reported much higher rates of problem gambling tha...ercent of those who live in the most disadvantaged neighborhoods are problem gamblers as compared to about one percent of those who live in the least disadvantaged n...Jimmy Buffett hosts event to benefit NYU Child Study Center
...en and families from New York's most disadvantaged neighborhoods turn their lives around. Children with behavioral ...n an additional 20 schools in highly disadvantaged neighborhoods with over 1,000 preschoolers and their families. "ParentCorps keeps kids out of jail and that benefi...Even in Canada's universal health plan, wealth effects hospitalization
...nomic gradient with residents of the lowest-income neighborhoods having both more ambulatory care and more hospital...onditions, individuals living in the lowest income neighborhoods had significantly more ambulatory visits before hospitalization than those living in wealthier neigh...