With over 100 Research Affiliates from various disciplines under its wing, CSDE proudly supports a broad spectrum of demographic research. Check out some of our scholars’ accomplishments and news coverage below.
CSDE Research Highlights
Health Disparities in Liver Cancer are Analyzed by Dwyer-Lindgren, Mokdad, and Colleagues | March 13th, 2024 |
CSDE Affiliates Laura Dwyer-Lindgren (Health Metrics Sciences, Global Health) and Ali H. Mokdad (Health Metrics Sciences, Epidemiology) released an article in The Lancet Public Health, titled “Burden of liver cancer mortality by county, race, and ethnicity in the USA, 2000–19: a systematic analysis of health disparities“. Understanding how specific populations are affected by liver cancer is important for identifying priorities, policies, and interventions to mitigate health risks and reduce disparities. |
Cohen Evaluates Post-Decentralization Effects in Uganda | March 13th, 2024 |
CSDE Affiliate Isabelle Cohen (Public Policy & Governance) authored a new study in The World Bank Economic Review, titled “Documenting Decentralization: Empirical Evidence on Administrative Unit Proliferation from Uganda“. Decentralization is an important and commonplace type of reform, yet our understanding of its effects remains limited. This paper documents the effects of the 2009–10 wave of district creation in Uganda, which increased the country’s districts by 42 percent, |
Racial/Ethnic Disparities in the Economic Costs of Dementia are Studied by Mudrazija and Colleagues | March 13th, 2024 |
CSDE Affiliate Stipica Mudrazija (Health Systems and Population Health) authored new research with colleagues in the Journal of Aging and Health, titled “Preclinical Dementia and Economic Well-Being Trajectories of Racially Diverse Older Adults“. This study examined the magnitude, changes, and racial/ethnic disparities in the economic costs of the 16-year preclinical phase of dementia—a period of cognitive decline without significant impact on daily activities. The study utilized two dementia algorithms to classify individuals with incident dementia in the Health and Retirement Study. |
Casey and Co-authors Assess the Accuracy of Self-Reported Distance to Nearest Unconventional Oil and Gas Wells | March 13th, 2024 |
CSDE Affiliate Joan A. Casey (Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences) co-authored new research in the Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology, titled “Accuracy of self-reported distance to nearest unconventional oil and gas well in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia residents and implications for exposure assessment“. The study was lead-authored by Cassandra J. Clark, a postdoctoral fellow at Yale. Self-reported distances to industrial sources have been used in epidemiology as proxies for exposure to environmental hazards and indicators of awareness and perception of sources. |
Swanson Co-authors Research Examining the U.S. Decline in the Non-Hispanic White Population | March 13th, 2024 |
CSDE Affiliate David Swanson (Sociology, UC Riverside) co-authored new research in Social Science Quarterly, titled “The decline of the non-Hispanic white population in the United States of America“. The question of a declining non-Hispanic white (NHW) population has sparked debate in the United States. In examining this question, three bodies of research have emerged. One group reports that the decline is real, a second argues that it is an illusion, |
Research by Vaughan-Wynn and Jung Examines Uneven Food Geographies of Seattle in the Era of Amazon | March 13th, 2024 |
CSDE Trainee Natalie Vaughan-Wynn (Geography) and CSDE Affiliate Jin-Kyu Jung (Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences) published an article in Environment and Planning F, titled “Digital food apartheid: The uneven food geographies of Seattle in the era of Amazon“. This article puts forward the concept of “digital food apartheid” to articulate differentiation in terms of one’s agency concerning their food that is mediated by, reified through, |
Chen and Colleagues Introduce Remote Sensing Method to Identify Landslides | March 7th, 2024 |
CSDE Affiliate Tzu-Hsin Karen Chen (Urban Design and Planning, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences) released new research with colleagues in Science of the Total Environment, titled “Identifying recurrent and persistent landslides using satellite imagery and deep learning: A 30-year analysis of the Himalaya“. This paper presents a remote sensing-based method to efficiently generate multi-temporal landslide inventories and identify recurrent and persistent landslides. Authors used free data from Landsat, |
New Study by Prusynski, Mroz, and Co-authors Compares Home Health Services Under Traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage | March 7th, 2024 |
CSDE Affiliates Rachel Prusynski (Rehabilitation Medicine) and Tracy Mroz (Rehabilitation Medicine) published an article with co-authors in JAMA Health Forum, titled “Differences in Home Health Services and Outcomes Between Traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage“. Private Medicare Advantage (MA) plans recently surpassed traditional Medicare (TM) in enrollment. However, MA plans are facing scrutiny for burdensome prior authorization and potential rationing of care, including home health. |
Hess and Co-authors Model the Role of Weather and Pilgrimage on Dengue Fever in Saudi Arabia | March 7th, 2024 |
CSDE Affiliate Jeremy Hess (Emergency Medicine, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, Global Health) co-authored new research in Pathogens, titled “Modeling the Role of Weather and Pilgrimage Variables on Dengue Fever Incidence in Saudi Arabia“. The first case of dengue fever (DF) in Saudi Arabia appeared in 1993 but by 2022, DF incidence was 11 per 100,000 people. Climatologic and population factors, such as the annual Hajj, |
Swanson Evaluates Models for Estimating Population Stability | March 7th, 2024 |
CSDE Affiliate David Swanson (Sociology, UC Riverside) authored new research in Canadian Studies in Population, titled “Models for Estimating Intrinsic r and the Mean Age of a Population at Stability: Evaluations at the National and Sub-national Level“. Using Canada’s provinces and territories in conjunction with the “Cohort Change Ratio” approach to generating a stable population, Swanson tested the accuracy of regression models constructed from national-level data designed to estimate two factors of a population at stability from initial conditions at the sub-national levels: (1) its constant rate of change, |