Professor in the department of nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health and Pop Center faculty member Mathew Gillman has recently published a paper titled Vitamin D Status and Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy
Now signs of decline in health-care employment growth
Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government and Pop Center executive committee member Amitabh Chandra is quoted in this article in Bloomberg Opinion Online entitled Health-Care Jobs Are Getting Squeezed, Finally
Till Bärnighausen co-authors paper on understanding and validating measures of governments’ political commitment to HIV
Pop Center faculty member Dr. Till Bärnighausen has co-authored a paper in Global Public Health: An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice entitled “Bringing the state back in: Understanding and validating measures of governments’ political commitment to HIV.”
Yerby Fellow Mariana Arcaya’s Article on Tailoring Community-Based Wellness Initiatives With Latent Class Analysis
Mariana Arcaya’s article entitled Tailoring Community-Based Wellness Initiatives With Latent Class Analysis — Massachusetts Community Transformation Grant Projects has been published on the CDC website.
Bell Fellow Fahad Razak co-authors article in JAMA that examines how physicians can better assist patients with decision making
Pop Center Bell Fellow Fahad Razak has co-authored an article in Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) that explores the importance of integrating some behavioral science into medical training to allow physicians to better assist patients with medical decision making. This article focuses on the prospect theory, a framework to understand how choices are made, to help gain insight into how patients make choices in the face of uncertainty…
Human rights violations and smoking status among South African adults
Until now, no public health study has examined South Africans’ experiences of human rights violations and smoking. The first paper to examine this relationship has just been published in Social Science & Medicine; Pop Center faculty members Ichiro Kawachi, Cassandra Okechukwu, and David Williams are co-authors. The results of their analysis suggest that smoking behaviors are more prevalent in South Africans who report that they have experienced violations of their human…
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New Study: The relationship among workplace characteristics, physical activity, and BMI
Pop Center faculty member Orfeu Buxton and post-doctoral fellow Erika Sabbath contributed to a new study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine examining the relationship of BMI, physical activity, and age as they relate to workplace characteristics. Their paper presents intriguing insights into the relationship of workplace harassment and obesity, among other findings.
SV Subramanian & Ichiro Kawachi Co-Author Paper on Internet Addiction
Pop Center faculty members SV Subramanian, PhD, and Ichiro Kawachi, MD, PhD, publish paper on addictive Internet use amongst adolescent Korean population.
Association Among Socioeconomic Status, Health Behaviors, and All-Cause Mortality in the United States
Pop Center faculty member SV Subramanian, faculty affiliate Maria Glymour, and former post-doctoral fellow Arijit Nandi have co-authored a study in Epidemiology assessing the extent to which smoking, alcohol consumption, and physical inactivity have mediated the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and all-cause mortality in a representative sample of US adults. Their findings point to the importance of social inequalities in unhealthy behaviors.
Pande’s Oped in NYT on Pollution in India
Rohini Pande, PhD, Mohammed Kamal Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School and a Pop Center faculty member co-wrote an oped piece in the New York Times on pollution in India, drawing attention to health costs.