A study in Pediatrics contributes to the evidence that links early exposure to antibiotics with higher body weight in five-year old children. Lead author of the study is Jason Block, MD, a Harvard Pop Center faculty member and former Harvard RWJF Health & Society Scholar. Learn more in this news item.
Does exposure to trauma explain lower rates of psychopathology among racial, ethnic minorities in the United States?
David R. Williams, a Harvard Pop Center faculty member, collaborated with a Harvard RWJF Health & Society Scholar program alumna and current Harvard faculty member Katie McLaughlin and colleagues in this study to shed light on whether exposure to trauma might be partly at play in explaining why racial and ethnic minorities have lower rates of psychopathology in the U.S.
What may help you get enough fruit and vegetables into your regular diet?
Laura Kubzansky, PhD, is an author on a study that indicates that higher levels of psychological well-being are associated with maintaining higher levels of health-promoting fruit and vegetable consumption.
A 21st-century-approach to qualitative data analysis
Mary Waters has co-authored a research article in Sociological Methods & Research that challenges the status-quo method (grounded theory framework) for qualitative coding procedures. The researchers suggest a way to better leverage today’s software, designed to support rigorous, transparent, and flexible analysis of in-depth interview data.
How does the interaction of multiple life events, plus our age, affect our health?
Recent Bell Fellow Juli Simon Thomas, PhD, has published a study in the Longitudinal and Life Course Studies: International Journal. She finds that the negative health impacts of such disruptive events as divorce and job loss are worsened when they overlap (the more the events, the worse the health impacts) and these events take a greater toll on health when experienced at a later age.
New HCPDS Working Paper: Estimates of child malnutrition indicators for 543 Parliamentary Constituencies in India
Rockli Kim, SD, Yun Xu, MA, William Joe, PhD, and S (Subu) V Subramanian, PhD, have authored a novel working paper that presents robust estimates on five indicators of child malnutrition for each Parliamentary Constituency (PC) in India in 2016.
A holistic research framework: Factoring in role that discrimination may play in child and adolescent health
Harvard Pop Center faculty member David R. Williams, MPH, PhD, and colleagues have penned an editorial in JAMA Pediatrics that prescribes the inclusion of discrimination (including race/ethnicity, immigrant status, sexual orientation, religion, and disability status) in the health research of an increasingly diverse population of children and adolescents.
Despite ART rapidly scaling up, level of knowledge of HIV among general population in sub-Saharan Africa has not
Alexander Tsai, MD, PhD, is co-author of a study published in the Journal of the International AIDS Society that indicates that has been a minimal increase in HIV knowledge across 33 sub-Saharan African countries over time, despite rapid antiretroviral therapy scale-up.
Subramanian comments: The value of intrinsic value in public health interventions
In this Commentary in Social Science & Medicine, Harvard Pop Center S (Subu) V Subramanian, PhD, and a colleague make a case for why sometimes (in this case, as it relates to sanitation) an end in itself is enough motivation to launch a public health intervention, regardless of economic or social outcomes.
Leveraging digital adherence technologies (DATs) to help manage treatment of leading infectious cause of death globally
Harvard Pop Center faculty member Professor Kenneth Mayer, MD, is an author on an analysis published in BMJ Global Health that: provides an historical context for the use of DATs (e.g., phone-based and smartphone-based technologies, digital pillboxes and ingestible sensors) to help manage the treatment of tuberculosis (TB); describes the variety of DATs currently being used and their potential functionality as a powerful tool to help manage TB therapy; and…