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Author Archives: Built Environment and Health
Where Do Older Pedestrians Experience a Risk of Being Killed in a Motor Vehicle Crash?
Our newest paper just came out in the Journal of American Geriatrics Society and shows that across the US, pedestrian fatalities from motor vehicle crashes among older adults cluster around senior centers, community centers, libraries, pharmacies/drug stores, and healthcare/hospital/health services. … Continue reading
Posted in Active Transport, Adults, Health Care Access, Injury, Safety, Transportation, Walkability
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Tree Canopy Cover Linked to Lower Risk of Pedestrian Falls
Our latest research, just published online in the American Journal of Epidemiology, suggests that higher levels of tree canopy cover helps prevent injurious pedestrian falls. The research found that during summer months, locations on streets and sidewalks where pedestrians fell … Continue reading
Expanding the BEH Research Portfolio
This summer we had the good fortune to start working with Emergent BioSolutions and have recently completed our first round of deliverables: an abstract accepted to the American Public Health Association (APHA) conference; and a paper on new methods to … Continue reading
Posted in Injury, Methods, Pedestrian Injury, Safety, Transportation
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The Links Between Vibrant Retail Business Environments and Resident’s Health
We have completed a series of studies showing that neighborhood access to small and medium size retail businesses that provide for community member’s living needs – the goods and services we need to function, live and thrive, such as banks, … Continue reading
Pedestrian Falls and Alcohol Use
Our recent paper highlights an often-overlooked aspect of pedestrian safety: the role alcohol and drug use play in falls that occur outdoors, particularly on streets and sidewalks. We used data from the National Emergency Medical Services Information System (NEMSIS), which … Continue reading
Posted in Active Transport, Adults, Alcohol, Injury
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Pedestrian Injury Research
Our work on pedestrian safety is an extension of our work on how urban design can be used to support engagement in pedestrian activity and physical activity. As we have built our portfolio of pedestrian injury research, we have come … Continue reading
Posted in Active Transport, Alcohol, Bike Share, CANVAS, Injury, Pedestrian Injury, Physical Activity, Safety, Street View, Transportation, Urban Design, Walkability
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Neighborhood Walkability and Lower Risk of Incident Diabetes
Continuing our collaboration with the NYU Women’s Health Study team (see here) to understand how neighborhood walkability affects chronic disease risk, we recently published a paper showing that higher walkability is associated with lower diabetes risk. Among 11,037 women free … Continue reading
Posted in Active Transport, Adults, Diabetes, Urban Design, Walkability
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Increases in Micromobility Injuries in the US: Implications for Public Health
Micromobility – bicycles, E-bikes, E-scooters, and hoverboards – has experienced immense growth in recent years, and we just published a paper in the first look section of AJPH exploring how this growth parallels the rise in electric micromobility injuries and … Continue reading
Posted in Bike Share, Bikeshare, Safety, Transportation, Urban Design
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Mr. Robot Hallucinates: Using ChatGPT-4 to Analyze Unstructured Clinical Notes in Electronic Medical Records
The Columbia Population Research Center’s Computing and Methods Core has been developing a series of research methods use cases for Large Language Model generative AI tools, largely focusing on ChatGPT-4. Our first case study was just published in JAMA Network … Continue reading
Posted in Active Transport, Injury, Methods, Safety, Tools
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Falls prevention focuses on indoor falls, but outdoor falls are just as severe.
Continuing our work on pedestrian falls we just published a paper in Injury Epidemiology focused on describing the clinical severity of injurious falls, distinguishing between falls that occur indoors and those that occur outdoors. While falls prevention guidelines focus on … Continue reading
Posted in Injury, Pedestrian Injury, Physical Activity, Safety, Walkability
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