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The urban elderly in the United States: health status and the environmentRuss Lopez
Department of Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02119, USA
Rev Environ Health 24:47-57. 2009..Planning for these challenges can create a supportive environment and improve the health of the urban elderly...
Segregation and black/white differences in exposure to air toxics in 1990Russ Lopez
Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA
Environ Health Perspect 110:289-95. 2002..The final model had an R(2) of 0.56. Increased segregation is associated with increased disparity in potential exposure to air pollution...
Urban sprawl and risk for being overweight or obeseRuss Lopez
Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Am J Public Health 94:1574-9. 2004..I examined the association between urban sprawl and the risk for being overweight or obese among US adults...
Income inequality and self-rated health in US metropolitan areas: a multi-level analysisRuss Lopez
Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health, 715 Albany St, Talbot 2E, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Soc Sci Med 59:2409-19. 2004..0% (95% confidence interval 1.6-6.5%). Given that self-rated health is a good predictor of morbidity and mortality, this suggests that metropolitan area income inequality is affecting the health of US adults...
Obesity, physical activity, and the urban environment: public health research needsRussell P Lopez
Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health, 715 Albany Street, Talbot 2E, Boston MA 02118, USA
Environ Health 5:25. 2006..Comparable research on the relationship of built environment and health is needed for urban, especially inner city, neighborhoods...
Black-white residential segregation and physical activityRuss Lopez
Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Talbot 2E, 715 Albany Street, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Ethn Dis 16:495-502. 2006..This finding may imply that the pathway between segregation and ill health includes physical inactivity...
Neighborhood risk factors for obesityRuss P Lopez
Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Talbot 2E, 715 Albany Street, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 15:2111-9. 2007..The goal of this study was to explore neighborhood environmental factors associated with obesity in a sample of adults living in a major U.S. metropolitan area...
Public health, the APHA, and urban renewalRuss P Lopez
School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Am J Public Health 99:1603-11. 2009..These failures have important implications for future health-related work on the built environment and other core public health activities...
The Boston schoolyard initiative: a public-private partnership for rebuilding urban play spacesRuss Lopez
Boston University, USA
J Health Polit Policy Law 33:617-38. 2008..Finally, the study shows that even older schools in inner-city neighborhoods, previously considered blights, can be turned into community, educational, and political assets...
