Maida P Galvez

Summary

Affiliation: Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Associations between neighborhood resources and physical activity in inner-city minority children
    Maida P Galvez
    Department of Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10023, USA
    Acad Pediatr 13:20-6. 2013
  2. ncbi Effective risk communication in children's environmental health: lessons learned from 9/11
    Maida P Galvez
    Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1 Gustave L Levy Place, Box 1512, New York, NY 10029, USA
    Pediatr Clin North Am 54:33-46, viii. 2007
  3. ncbi Race and food store availability in an inner-city neighbourhood
    Maida P Galvez
    Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
    Public Health Nutr 11:624-31. 2008
  4. ncbi Childhood obesity and neighborhood food-store availability in an inner-city community
    Maida P Galvez
    Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
    Acad Pediatr 9:339-43. 2009
  5. ncbi Childhood obesity and the built environment
    Maida P Galvez
    Department of Preventive Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
    Curr Opin Pediatr 22:202-7. 2010
  6. ncbi Temporal variability in urinary concentrations of perchlorate, nitrate, thiocyanate and iodide among children
    Nancy Mervish
    Department of Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029, USA
    J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol 22:212-8. 2012
  7. ncbi Associations between phthalate metabolite urinary concentrations and body size measures in New York City children
    Susan L Teitelbaum
    Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Department of Preventive Medicine, One Gustave L Levy Place, Box 1057, NY 10029, USA
    Environ Res 112:186-93. 2012
  8. ncbi Dietary and physical activity behaviors of New York City children from different ethnic minority subgroups
    Nita Vangeepuram
    Department of Preventive Medicine and Pediatrics, Division of General Pediatrics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
    Acad Pediatr 12:481-8. 2012
  9. ncbi Measures of obesity associated with asthma diagnosis in ethnic minority children
    Nita Vangeepuram
    Department of Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1 Gustave L Levy Place, Box 1512, New York, NY 10029, USA
    J Obes 2011:517417. 2011
  10. ncbi Environmental justice and the health of children
    Philip J Landrigan
    Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY USA
    Mt Sinai J Med 77:178-87. 2010

Detail Information

Publications11

  1. ncbi Associations between neighborhood resources and physical activity in inner-city minority children
    Maida P Galvez
    Department of Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10023, USA
    Acad Pediatr 13:20-6. 2013
    ..We describe how availability of physical activity resources varies by individual and block characteristics and then examine its associations with physical activity levels of Latino and black children in East Harlem, New York City...
  2. ncbi Effective risk communication in children's environmental health: lessons learned from 9/11
    Maida P Galvez
    Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1 Gustave L Levy Place, Box 1512, New York, NY 10029, USA
    Pediatr Clin North Am 54:33-46, viii. 2007
    ..This article describes the theory behind effective risk communication using examples from events following September 11, 2001. It shares lessons learned and provides a template for risk communication that can guide pediatric providers...
  3. ncbi Race and food store availability in an inner-city neighbourhood
    Maida P Galvez
    Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
    Public Health Nutr 11:624-31. 2008
    ..Less is known about whether differences in availability of resources by African American or Latino race/ethnicity exist within a single minority community...
  4. ncbi Childhood obesity and neighborhood food-store availability in an inner-city community
    Maida P Galvez
    Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
    Acad Pediatr 9:339-43. 2009
    ....
  5. ncbi Childhood obesity and the built environment
    Maida P Galvez
    Department of Preventive Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
    Curr Opin Pediatr 22:202-7. 2010
    ..Whereas studies on the impacts of neighborhood factors on adult obesity are relatively common, studies examining these same factors on childhood obesity are far fewer...
  6. ncbi Temporal variability in urinary concentrations of perchlorate, nitrate, thiocyanate and iodide among children
    Nancy Mervish
    Department of Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029, USA
    J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol 22:212-8. 2012
    ..Surrogate analysis show that single-spot urine samples reliably categorize participant's exposure providing support for the use of a single sample as an exposure measure in epidemiological studies that use relative ranking of exposure...
  7. ncbi Associations between phthalate metabolite urinary concentrations and body size measures in New York City children
    Susan L Teitelbaum
    Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Department of Preventive Medicine, One Gustave L Levy Place, Box 1057, NY 10029, USA
    Environ Res 112:186-93. 2012
    ..To examine prospectively associations between urinary phthalate metabolite concentrations and body size measures in children...
  8. ncbi Dietary and physical activity behaviors of New York City children from different ethnic minority subgroups
    Nita Vangeepuram
    Department of Preventive Medicine and Pediatrics, Division of General Pediatrics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
    Acad Pediatr 12:481-8. 2012
    ..To examine racial/ethnic differences in diet and physical activity behaviors in ethnic minority New York City children...
  9. ncbi Measures of obesity associated with asthma diagnosis in ethnic minority children
    Nita Vangeepuram
    Department of Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1 Gustave L Levy Place, Box 1512, New York, NY 10029, USA
    J Obes 2011:517417. 2011
    ..63 (95% CI 1.12-2.39), 1.50 (95% CI 1.02-2.21), and 1.56 (95% CI 1.04-2.34), resp.). Conclusions. This study found a significant association between increased body size and asthma diagnosis, regardless of the measurement examined...
  10. ncbi Environmental justice and the health of children
    Philip J Landrigan
    Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY USA
    Mt Sinai J Med 77:178-87. 2010
    ..Documentation of linkages between health disparities and environmental injustice is an important step toward achieving environmental justice...
  11. ncbi Obesity in the 21st century
    Maida P Galvez
    Environ Health Perspect 111:A684-5. 2003