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Author Archives: Built Environment and Health
Neighborhood Walkability and Body Mass Index among African American Cancer Survivors
Increasingly, health care systems are becoming stakeholders in urban design and infrastructure planning processes, and are considering how neighborhood environments can support the health of communities and patient populations within health system catchment areas. To this end, health systems are: … Continue reading
Posted in Adults, Cancer Survivors, Urban Design, Walkability
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Improving the measurement of Neighborhood Physical Disorder
Neighborhood audit methods (AKA Systematic Social Observation) are often used to create measures of neighborhood built and social environments. But even with the enhanced efficiency of virtual neighborhood audit methods using CANVAS-Street View, it is generally not possible to collect … Continue reading
Posted in CANVAS, Methods, Street View, Tools
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Newly Funded Work on Pedestrian Injury
We have recently been funded by NIH to conduct a four-year study of how urban design, the locations of alcohol selling establishments, night life districts and locations of services for the homeless influence pedestrian fatality risk. We will be conducting … Continue reading
Physical Activity in an Urban Environment and Associations with Air Pollution and Lung Function
In new work published in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society we analyzed the links between where children are physically active and their exposure to air pollution and lung function. Physical activity is associated with increased ventilation because of … Continue reading
Posted in Accelerometers, Asthma, Childhood, GPS
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Mapping Food Insecurity During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, 11% of households and nearly 16% of families with children were food insecure. With schools closed and families out of work, food insecurity rates are expected to skyrocket in the coming months. During the crisis, … Continue reading
Updated: County Level Estimates of Highly Stressed Health Care Systems
Our online mapping tool has been updated with new data showing counties that are at high risk of experiencing patient volumes that exceed their hospital capacity over the next 6 weeks. The maps show at risk counties for three different levels … Continue reading
County Level Estimates of When Hospital Capacity will be Overwhelmed
We have been working as part of a multi-institution team to make county level estimates for the U.S. of the time until health systems are overwhelmed with patients. The analyses use a 28 day look forward window from 3/24/2020 and … Continue reading
Estimated ICU Beds Available to Respond to Patient Surges
In collaboration with Charles Branas in the Department of Epidemiology and colleagues from Patient Insight, the Mount Sinai Health System and MIT, we have been working to estimate the number of hospital critical care beds, including ICU beds and other … Continue reading
At Risk Populations for Severe COVID-19, Part IV
Our geographer extraordinaire, James Quinn, built a new version of our interactive mapping tool for severe COVID-19. The map depicts populations at high risk of severe COVID-19 due to older age or underlying health conditions, the availability of ICU beds … Continue reading
Posted in Health Care Access, Tools
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At Risk Populations for Severe COVID-19, part III
We have continued our partnership with PolicyMap.Com and they created us an interactive mapping widget that shows the data on populations at risk of severe COVID-19. The at risk populations we mapped are: the number of people 65 years and … Continue reading
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