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Alcohol outlets and binge drinking in urban neighborhoods: the implications of nonlinearity for intervention and policyJennifer Ahern
Division of Epidemiology, University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health, Berkeley, CA 94720 7358, USA
Am J Public Health 103:e81-7. 2013..However, potential nonlinearity in the relation between outlet density and alcohol consumption has not been rigorously examined...
Navigating non-positivity in neighbourhood studies: an analysis of collective efficacy and violenceJennifer Ahern
Division of Epidemiology, Berkeley School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
J Epidemiol Community Health 67:159-65. 2013....- Population vulnerabilities and capacities related to health: a test of a modelJennifer Ahern
Division of Epidemiology, University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health, 101 Haviland Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 7358, USA
Soc Sci Med 66:691-703. 2008..Understanding the vulnerabilities and capacities that characterize populations may help us better understand the production of population health, and may inform efforts aimed at improving population health... - Social context and depression after a disaster: the role of income inequalityJennifer Ahern
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley, 140 Warren Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 7636, USA
J Epidemiol Community Health 60:766-70. 2006..To examine the association between neighbourhood income inequality and depression, both overall and among those with different levels of income, in the post-disaster context... 
Stigma, discrimination and the health of illicit drug usersJennifer Ahern
Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, 109 Observatory Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 88:188-96. 2007..The association of stigma and discrimination with poor health among drug users suggests the need for debate on the relative risks and benefits of stigma and discrimination in this context...- "Culture of drinking" and individual problems with alcohol useJennifer Ahern
Division of Epidemiology, University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health, Berkeley, CA 94720 7358, USA
Am J Epidemiol 167:1041-9. 2008..Analyses that consider social and structural factors that shape harmful drinking may inform efforts targeting the problematic aspects of alcohol consumption... - Neighborhood smoking norms modify the relation between collective efficacy and smoking behaviorJennifer Ahern
Division of Epidemiology, University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health, 101 Haviland Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 100:138-45. 2009..Although neighborhoods with more collective efficacy have better health in general, recent work suggests that social norms and collective efficacy may in combination influence health behaviors such as smoking... - Estimating the effects of potential public health interventions on population disease burden: a step-by-step illustration of causal inference methodsJennifer Ahern
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 7358, USA
Am J Epidemiol 169:1140-7. 2009..With this approach, the potential effects of an intervention targeting neighborhoods, individuals, or other units can be estimated... - Collective efficacy and major depression in urban neighborhoodsJennifer Ahern
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720 7358, USA
Am J Epidemiol 173:1453-62. 2011..Similar results were suggested among younger adults; however, the confidence interval crossed the null. These and other study findings suggest that community-randomized trials targeting collective efficacy merit consideration... - Education inequality and use of cigarettes, alcohol, and marijuanaSandro Galea
Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 2548, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 90:S4-15. 2007.... - Neighborhood income and income distribution and the use of cigarettes, alcohol, and marijuanaSandro Galea
Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104 2548, USA
Am J Prev Med 32:S195-202. 2007..Further research should investigate specific pathways that may explain the relationship between neighborhood characteristics and use of different substances... - Urban neighborhood poverty and the incidence of depression in a population-based cohort studySandro Galea
Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, USA
Ann Epidemiol 17:171-9. 2007..We assessed the relation between urban neighborhood poverty and incident depression in a population-based prospective cohort study... - Neighborhood education inequality and drinking behaviorFélice Lê
Division of Epidemiology, University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health, 101 Haviland Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 112:18-26. 2010..The neighborhood distribution of education (education inequality) may influence substance use among neighborhood residents... - To GEE or not to GEE: comparing population average and mixed models for estimating the associations between neighborhood risk factors and healthAlan E Hubbard
Division of Biostatistics, Berkeley School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Epidemiology 21:467-74. 2010..We conclude that the estimation-equation approach of population average models provides a more useful approximation of the truth... - Social norms, collective efficacy, and smoking cessation in urban neighborhoodsDeborah Karasek
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, 94720 7358, USA
Am J Public Health 102:343-51. 2012..We examined the separate and combined relations of neighborhood-level social norms and collective efficacy with individuals' cigarette smoking cessation... - Longitudinal determinants of posttraumatic stress in a population-based cohort studySandro Galea
Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104 2548, USA
Epidemiology 19:47-54. 2008..Posttraumatic stress disorder is a prevalent and disabling psychologic pathology. Longitudinal research on the predictors of posttraumatic stress symptomatology is limited... - What explains the association between neighborhood-level income inequality and the risk of fatal overdose in New York City?Arijit Nandi
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
Soc Sci Med 63:662-74. 2006..Implications of these findings for the reduction of drug overdose mortality associated with the distribution of income are discussed... - Maternal exposure to unexpected economic contraction and birth weight for gestational ageClaire E Margerison-Zilko
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Epidemiology 22:855-8. 2011..The macro-level economy may affect fetal health through maternal behavioral or physiologic responses... - Invited commentary: Considerations about specificity of associations, causal pathways, and heterogeneity in multilevel thinkingSandro Galea
Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48104-2548, USA
Am J Epidemiol 163:1079-82; discussion 1083. 2006 - Male fetal loss in the U.S. following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001Tim A Bruckner
Public Health and Planning, Policy and Design, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
BMC Public Health 10:273. 2010..We test the communal bereavement hypothesis among gravid women by examining whether male fetal deaths rose above expected levels in the US following September 11, 2001... - Revisiting rose: comparing the benefits and costs of population-wide and targeted interventionsJennifer Ahern
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Milbank Q 86:581-600. 2008..Beyond his discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of these approaches, there is no empiric work examining the conditions under which one of these approaches may be better than the other... - Gender-specific selection in utero among contemporary human birth cohortsRalph Catalano
School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 23:273-8. 2009..The results suggest that natural selection conserved the stress mechanism in females to end the gestation of relatively less fit males and that this mechanism manifests itself in contemporary human societies... - Social participation and drug use in a cohort of Brazilian sex workersHannah Hogan Leslie
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California, 101 Haviland Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 7358, USA
J Epidemiol Community Health 67:491-7. 2013..We assessed social participation and drug use before and after implementation of a clinical, social and structural intervention with sex workers intended to prevent sexually transmitted infections/HIV infection... - Income distribution and risk of fatal drug overdose in New York City neighborhoodsSandro Galea
Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies, New York Academy of Medicine, New York 10024, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 70:139-48. 2003..Disinvestment in social and economic resources in unequal neighborhoods may explain this association. Public health interventions related to overdose risk should pay particular attention to highly unequal neighborhoods... - Urban built environment and depression: a multilevel analysisSandro Galea
Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies, New York Academy of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
J Epidemiol Community Health 59:822-7. 2005..To assess the relations between characteristics of the neighbourhood internal and external built environment and past six month and lifetime depression... - Health status among emergency department patients approximately one year after consecutive disasters in New York CityWilliam George Fernandez
Boston University School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Acad Emerg Med 12:958-64. 2005.... - Distribution of education and population health: an ecological analysis of New York City neighborhoodsSandro Galea
Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies, New York Academy of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Am J Public Health 95:2198-205. 2005..We assessed the relationship between distribution of education and health indicators in a large urban area to determine if distribution of education may be a determinant of population health... - A failure of resilience: estimating response of New York City's public health ecosystem to sudden disasterRodrick Wallace
New York State Psychiatric Institute, Epidemiology of Mental Disorders Research Department, Box 47, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York 10032, USA
Health Place 13:545-50. 2007..Paradoxically, then, these urban neighborhoods constitute a single, highly interdependent, health ecosystem, despite substantial socioeconomic and racial segregation... - The built environment and alcohol consumption in urban neighborhoodsKyle T Bernstein
Department of Emergency Medicine, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY 10013, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 91:244-52. 2007..To examine the relations between characteristics of the neighborhood built environment and recent alcohol use... - Interpersonal discrimination and the health of illicit drug usersMichael Young
Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies, New York Academy of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse 31:371-91. 2005..Discrimination may contribute to poor mental and physical health in this marginalized population, potentially complicating the provision of substance abuse treatment... - Psychological sequelae of the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York CitySandro Galea
Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies, New York Academy of Medicine, New York, NY 10029 5283, USA
N Engl J Med 346:982-7. 2002..We assessed the prevalence and correlates of acute post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression among residents of Manhattan five to eight weeks after the attacks... - The association between multiple domains of discrimination and self-assessed health: a multilevel analysis of Latinos and blacks in four low-income New York City neighborhoodsJennifer Stuber
Division of Health and Science Policy, The New York Academy of Medicine, New York 10029-5283, USA
Health Serv Res 38:1735-59. 2003..CONCLUSIONS: Discrimination due to race and other attributes was a significant correlate of mental health among Latinos and blacks independent of other accepted determinants of health... - Relationship of self-reported asthma severity and urgent health care utilization to psychological sequelae of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center among New York City area residentsJoanne Fagan
Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies, New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue, New York City, NY 10029-5283, USA
Psychosom Med 65:993-6. 2003..CONCLUSIONS: PTSD related to the September 11 terrorist attacks contributed to symptom severity and the utilization of urgent health care services among asthmatics in the NYC metropolitan area... - Racial differences in discrimination experiences and responses among minority substance usersThomas Minior
Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York, USA
Ethn Dis 13:521-7. 2003..These differences may help explain racial and ethnic differences in health among marginalized populations, and identify avenues for effective, targeted intervention... - Awareness and perceptions of a communitywide mental health program in New York city after September 11Sasha Rudenstine
Center for Epidemiologic Studies, New York Academy of Medicine, New York City, New York, USA
Psychiatr Serv 54:1404-6. 2003..The results of the study suggest that although awareness of this public mental health services was low, Project Liberty was well received among the people who may be most likely to need its services... - Trends of probable post-traumatic stress disorder in New York City after the September 11 terrorist attacksSandro Galea
Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies, New York Academy of Medicine, New York, NY 10029 5283, USA
Am J Epidemiol 158:514-24. 2003..The psychological consequences of a large-scale disaster in a densely populated urban area may extend beyond persons directly affected by the disaster to persons in the general population... - Racial/ethnic disparities in overdose mortality trends in New York City, 1990-1998Sandro Galea
Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies, New York Academy of Medicine, New York, New York 10029 5283, USA
J Urban Health 80:201-11. 2003.... - Television images and psychological symptoms after the September 11 terrorist attacksJennifer Ahern
Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies, Room 556, New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10029-5283, USA
Psychiatry 65:289-300. 2002..Specific disaster-related television images were associated with PTSD and depression among persons who were directly exposed to a disaster. Future research should address causal directionality of this association... - Utilization of mental health services following the September 11th terrorist attacks in Manhattan, New York CityJoseph A Boscarino
Division of Health and Science Policy, Room 552, New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10029 5283, USA
Int J Emerg Ment Health 4:143-55. 2002.... - Posttraumatic stress disorder in Manhattan, New York City, after the September 11th terrorist attacksSandro Galea
Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies, New York Academy of Medicine, New York, New York 10029, USA
J Urban Health 79:340-53. 2002..These findings can help guide resource planning for future disasters in densely populated urban areas... - Increased use of cigarettes, alcohol, and marijuana among Manhattan, New York, residents after the September 11th terrorist attacksDavid Vlahov
Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies, New York Academy of Medicine, New York, NY 10029 5283, USA
Am J Epidemiol 155:988-96. 2002..Increase in use of different substances may be associated with the presence of different comorbid psychiatric conditions... - Sustained increased consumption of cigarettes, alcohol, and marijuana among Manhattan residents after september 11, 2001David Vlahov
Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies, New York Academy of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
Am J Public Health 94:253-4. 2004..These sustained increases in substance use following the September 11 terrorist attacks suggest potential long-term health consequences as a result of disasters... - Consumption of cigarettes, alcohol, and marijuana among New York City residents six months after the September 11 terrorist attacksDavid Vlahov
Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies, New York Academy of Medicine, Room 556, 1216 Fifth Ave, New York, NY 10029 5283, USA
Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse 30:385-407. 2004..These results suggest that the increase in substance use after a disaster may be a cause for public health concern in the long-term... - Income inequality and risk of suicide in New York City neighborhoods: a multilevel case-control studyJeffrey R Miller
Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies, New York Academy of Medicine, NY 10029, USA
Suicide Life Threat Behav 35:448-59. 2005..These data suggest that income inequality may contribute to the risk of suicide in younger adults... - Job loss, unemployment, work stress, job satisfaction, and the persistence of posttraumatic stress disorder one year after the September 11 attacksArijit Nandi
Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies, New York Academy of Medicine, New York, NY 10029-5283, USA
J Occup Environ Med 46:1057-64. 2004..02). High levels of perceived work stress predicted PTSD persistence among persons employed at follow-up (P = 0.02). Persons unemployed in the aftermath of a disaster may be at risk for poor mental health in the long-term... - Opiates, cocaine and alcohol combinations in accidental drug overdose deaths in New York City, 1990-98Phillip O Coffin
Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies, New York Academy of Medicine, New York 10029, USA
Addiction 98:739-47. 2003..CONCLUSIONS: These data suggest that interventions to prevent accidental overdose mortality should address the use of drugs such as heroin, cocaine and alcohol in combination... - War-related psychological sequelae among emergency department patients in the former Republic of YugoslaviaBrett D Nelson
Center for International Emergency, Disaster and Refugee Studies, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
BMC Med 2:22. 2004..We sought to assess the burden of metal health dysfunction among emergency department (ED) patients presenting for care three years post-war in Serbia... - Period and birth-cohort effects on age of first phencyclidine (PCP) use among drug users in New York City, 1960 to 2000Whitney K Bryant
Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies, New York Academy of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Ann Epidemiol 16:266-72. 2006..The aim of the study is to determine period and birth-cohort effects in the early initiation of phencyclidine (PCP) use in drug users in New York City (NYC)... - Impact of increased syringe access: preliminary findings on injection drug user syringe source, disposal, and pharmacy sales in Harlem, New YorkCrystal M Fuller
Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies, New York Academy of Medicine, NY, USA
J Am Pharm Assoc (Wash) 42:S77-82. 2002..To evaluate the New York State Expanded Syringe Access Demonstration Program (ESAP) through injection drug user (IDU) surveys, discarded needles and syringes studies, and pharmacy sales and experiences surveys... - More pharmacists in high-risk neighborhoods of New York City support selling syringes to injection drug usersPhillip O Coffin
The Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies, New York Academy of Medicine, NY 10029, USA
J Am Pharm Assoc (Wash) 42:S62-7. 2002..To document changes in pharmacists' opinions and practices from the time of passage to implementation of a law permitting selling syringes without a prescription (the Expanded Syringe Access Demonstration Program [ESAP])... - Gender, social support, and posttraumatic stress in postwar KosovoJennifer Ahern
Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies, New York Academy of Medicine, New York, New York 10029, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 192:762-70. 2004..Interventions targeting social support may be important public health efforts in the postwar context... - Racial/ethnic differences in screening for colon cancer: report from the New York Cancer ProjectDavid Vlahov
Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies, New York Academy of Medicine, NY 10029, USA
Ethn Dis 15:76-83. 2005..To determine whether racial/ethnic differences in colon cancer screening are independent of socioeconomic and personal risk factors... - Drugs and firearm deaths in New York City, 1990-1998Sandro Galea
Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies, New York Academy of Medicine, New York, New York 10029, USA
J Urban Health 79:70-86. 2002..These results suggest a complex role of drugs in firearm-related deaths... - Mental health service and medication use in New York City after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attackJoseph A Boscarino
New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue, DHSP Room 552, New York, NY 10029, USA
Psychiatr Serv 55:274-83. 2004..A survey assessed use of mental health services and psychiatric medications in New York City four to five months after the September 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center... - Psychiatric medication use among Manhattan residents following the World Trade Center disasterJoseph A Boscarino
Division of Health and Science Policy, New York Academy of Medicine, New York 10029 5293, USA
J Trauma Stress 16:301-6. 2003..5%). However, among those who used postdisaster medications (n = 129), new users tended to be those with panic attacks (44.1%) and those with panic attacks and PTSD (69.2%)... - Mental health status among ethnic Albanians seeking medical care in an emergency department two years after the war in Kosovo: a pilot projectWilliam G Fernandez
Division of Emergency Medicine, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Ann Emerg Med 43:E1-8. 2004..CONCLUSION: Mental health problems among ED patients in Kosovo, particularly among specific vulnerable populations, are a significant public health concern 2 years after the conflict... - Predictors of peritraumatic reactions and PTSD following the September 11th terrorist attacksSteven R Lawyer
Department of Psychology of Idaho State University, USA
Psychiatry 69:130-41. 2006..These results support a growing literature concerning the predictive value of peritraumatic reactions in relation to PTSD. Implications for preventive efforts and suggestions for future research are discussed... - Television watching and the risk of incident probable posttraumatic stress disorder: a prospective evaluationKyle T Bernstein
Department of Emergency Medicine, NYU School of Medicine, New York, New York 10016, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 195:41-7. 2007..4-fold increased risk of new-onset probable PTSD (p=0.004). Exposure to television coverage of the September 11 anniversary was associated with new-onset probable PTSD among a cohort of New Yorkers with no probable PTSD at baseline... - Contextual determinants of drug use risk behavior: a theoretic frameworkSandro Galea
Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies, New York Academy of Medicine, New York, New York 10029 5283, USA
J Urban Health 80:iii50-8. 2003.... - Television images and probable posttraumatic stress disorder after September 11: the role of background characteristics, event exposures, and perievent panicJennifer Ahern
New York Academy of Medicine, Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies, New York, NY, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 192:217-26. 2004..Television may merit consideration as a potential exposure to a traumatic event... - For the patient. Does discrimination affect the mental health of substance abusers?Thomas Minior
Ethn Dis 13:549-50. 2003 - Probable cigarette dependence, PTSD, and depression after an urban disaster: results from a population survey of New York City residents 4 months after September 11, 2001Arijit Nandi
Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies, New York Academy of Medicine, USA
Psychiatry 68:299-310. 2005..3% vs. 13.3%, p = 0.027). This study showed the co-occurrence of probable cigarette dependence with increased cigarette use and the co-occurrence of probable cigarette dependence with probable PTSD and depression after September 11... - Posttraumatic stress in women after the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York CityTiffany Pulcino
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 12:809-20. 2003..Isolating the characteristics that place women at greater risk for probable PTSD after disasters can inform public health prevention strategies and spur further research... - Oral beta2-agonist use by preschool children with asthma in East and Central Harlem, New YorkSebastian Bonner
Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies, The New York Academy of Medicine, New York, NY 10029-5293
J Asthma 43:31-5. 2006..Use of oral ss(2)-agonist was associated with more severe symptoms. This study documents the continued widespread use of oral ss(2)-agonist for treatment of children in a low-income community with high prevalence of asthma... - A model of underlying socioeconomic vulnerability in human populations: evidence from variability in population health and implications for public healthSandro Galea
Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies, New York Academy of Medicine, 1216, 5th Avenue, Room 553, New York, NY 10029, USA
Soc Sci Med 60:2417-30. 2005....