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Assessing the Benefits of a Rising Tide: Educational Attainment and Increases in Neighborhood Socioeconomic Advantage

The finding neighborhood economic improvement is positively associated with educational attainment for adolescents of all races is consistent across two distinct analytic strategies and two different measures of educational attainment.

Aug 18, 2017
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Neighborhood Age Structure and Cognitive Function in a Nationally-Representative Sample of Older Adults in the U.S.

In this nationally-representative sample of U.S. adults aged 51 and over, living in a neighborhood in the highest tertile of the percent of adults 65 and older was associated with significantly better cognitive function.

Aug 8, 2017
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Does Opening a Supermarket in a Food Desert Change the Food Environment?

Opening a supermarket in a 'food desert' caused little improvement in the net availability of healthy foods, challenging the underpinnings of policies such as the Healthy Food Financing Initiative.

Aug 4, 2017
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Ethics and Science in the Participatory Era: A Vignette-Based Delphi Study

Vignettes could be an effective way to train researchers in the responsible conduct of research in the participatory era.

Jul 26, 2017
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Promoting Physical Activity in High-Poverty Neighborhood Parks: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

Modest efforts, such as free classes, to increase physical activity in high-poverty area parks attracted visitors during special programming but were not sufficient to increase overall park use.

Jul 18, 2017
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A Framework for Synthetic Control Methods With High-Dimensional, Micro-Level Data: Evaluating a Neighborhood-Specific Crime Intervention

Our study illustrates the advantages of using high-dimensional, micro-level data in the context of synthetic control methods.

Jun 30, 2017
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Telomere Length and Neighborhood Circumstances: Evaluating Biological Response to Unfavorable Exposures

Studying neighborhood effects on telomere length could provide insight into how neighborhood factors relate to biology.

May 31, 2017
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Improved Parental Dietary Quality Is Associated with Children's Dietary Intake Through the Home Environment

Among families living in a former food desert, nutrition and physical activity norms of the home environment had a larger effect on childrens' dietary intake than the types of food available at home.

May 16, 2017
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Using Systematic Observations to Understand Conditions That Promote Interracial Experiences in Neighbourhood Parks

We analysed observations from 31 neighbourhood parks, with each park mapped into smaller target areas for study, across five US cities generated using the System for Observing Play and Recreation in the Community (SOPARC).

May 16, 2017
Commentary

Using Wearable Fitness Devices to Monitor More Than Just Fitness

Manufacturers could reinvigorate the market for personal health devices by incorporating measures of health and well-being beyond step counts. Wearables could gauge a neighborhood's air quality, safety, or its level of social connectedness.

May 14, 2017
Research Brief

Nurse-Designed Care Models: What Can They Tell Us About Advancing a Culture of Health?

This brief summarizes findings from case studies of three innovative nurse-designed care models, and it discusses lessons learned from these case studies that might inform our understanding of the health sector's role in building a Culture of Health.

Apr 19, 2017
Report

Nurse-Designed Care Models and Culture of Health: Review of Three Case Studies

This report presents case studies of three nurse-designed care models that help foster a culture of health -- an action framework that focuses on well-being and equity with the goal of empowering and supporting people to lead healthier lives.

Apr 19, 2017
Report

How Cultural Alignment and the Use of Incentives Can Promote a Culture of Health: Stakeholder Perspectives

This report draws on interviews with Culture of Health stakeholders whose work focused on culture, incentives, or both to learn how organizations are addressing and leveraging culture and incentives to promote health and well-being.

Apr 14, 2017
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Examination of Neighborhood Disadvantage and Sleep in a Multi-Ethnic Cohort of Adolescents

Greater perceived neighborhood-level social cohesion and lower neighborhood-level poverty were associated with better sleep outcomes in adolescents.

Apr 11, 2017
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Dr. Pedro José Greer, Jr.'s Philanthropy Supports Community-Based Solutions

Dr. Pedro José Greer, Jr. channels his compassion for those in need into philanthropic support to help RAND address health issues and disparities. He has been involved in RAND's health policy work for nearly 30 years, serving in advisory and leadership roles.

Mar 27, 2017
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One Size Doesn't Fit All: Cross-Sectional Associations Between Neighborhood Walkability, Crime and Physical Activity Depends on Age and Sex of Residents

“Walkability” appears to increase physical activity in low-income, urban neighborhoods, most notably for women under 65.

Mar 14, 2017
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Encouraging Residential Moves to Opportunity Neighborhoods: An Experiment Testing Incentives Offered to Housing Voucher Recipients

Given the potential benefits of upwardly mobile residential moves, housing practitioners should continue testing policies to facilitate voucher-based opportunity moves.

Jan 24, 2017
Report

Report

Demographic, Social, Economic, and Housing Characteristics: Development of a U.S. Contextual Database of 1990–2010 Measures

This report describes a contextual database of demographic, social, economic, housing, cultural, and urbanization measures for U.S. census tracts, counties, and metropolitan statistical areas for use in research.

Jan 3, 2017
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Do Neighborhood Characteristics Affect Sleep Quality?

Perceptions of a neighborhood's characteristics, such as safety, were associated with sleep quality among low-income African-American adults. But objective characteristics, such as crime rates, were not.

Nov 30, 2016
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Creating Healthier, More Equitable Communities by Improving Governance and Policy

Political and governance considerations should play a central role in the national conversation about improving health and health equity.

Nov 28, 2016

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