The association between parent racial socialization and child competence was examined in
a socioeconomically diverse sample of African American preschoolers living in an urban …

Background Domestic violence results in long-term and immediate health problems. This
study compared selected physical health problems of abused and never abused women with …

Census data are widely used for assessing neighborhood socioeconomic context. Research
using census data has been inconsistent in variable choice and usually limited to single …

Psychiatric epidemiologists were among the first to use the term “social epidemiology”(1),
and the role of the social environment in the etiology and course of major mental disorders …

OBJECTIVES: Past research on low birthweight has focused on individual-level risk factors.
We sought to assess the contribution of macrolevel social factors by using census tract-level …

Objective To examine mortality in a representative nationwide sample of homeless and
marginally housed people living in shelters, rooming houses, and hotels. Design Follow-up study…

This study sought to determine whether and to what extent maternal employment in the early
postpartum period is associated with the initiation and continuation of breast-feeding in a …

Public health researchers have provided a growing body of evidence on the salutary effects
of social capital for individual well being. The importance of these findings for social …

In this article, the authors introduce concept mapping as a useful participatory research method
for public health researchers interested in generating hypotheses and developing theory. …

In less than 10 years, the field of epidemiology has been transformed. During this time,
multilevel modeling has gone from a little-known and perhaps even unwelcome method of …