CSDE Affiliate Katarina Guttmannova has recently published two new articles with a number of co-authors in Health Promotion International and Addictive Behaviors. The first article, available in full HERE, examined whether community prevention coalitions in Chile and Colombia perceived reports of risk and protective factors—based on the results of the Communities That Care Youth Survey—to be understandable, valid, useful, and worth disseminating. The second article, available in advance of publication HERE, explores potential prevention targets among young adults who use both alcohol and marijuana.
Rowhani-Rahbar and Co-Authors Explore Barriers to Randomized Trials Among Patients with Firearm Injuries in Recent Study
CSDE Affiliate and Executive Committee Member Ali Rowhani-Rahbar and several co-authors recently published this study in Injury Epidemiology. The paper discusses barriers to recruitment, retention, and intervention delivery in a randomized controlled trial (RCT) of patients presenting with firearm injuries to a Level 1 trauma center. This study was one of the first RCTs of a hospital- and community-based intervention provided solely among patients with firearm injuries.
Pörtner Publication on Birth Spacing and Sex-Selective Abortions in India Now Available
CSDE External Affiliate Claus Pörtner‘s recent article has just been released on Demography‘s website in advance of publication. This research spans four decades of data. Since the advent of prenatal sex-determination technologies in the mid-1980s, India has experienced an increasingly male-biased sex ratio at birth, presumably from sex-selective abortions. Abortions lengthen birth intervals, and this paper shows that, although the overall length of birth intervals increased from 1970 to the mid-2010s, well-educated women with no sons had the most substantial lengthening, as well as the most male-biased sex ratios.
CSSS Seminar: How parochial are we really? Matching methods to questions to better characterize human sociality
CSDE Seminar: The Importance of Community-Generated Data for Urban Resilience: Reflecting on Water Stories from Cape Town, South Africa
Population, Environmental Risks, and the Climate Crisis: Introducing the Community Demographic Model (CDM) Website
Research by Fyall and Trainee Fowle Cited in The New York Times
CSDE Trainee Matthew Fowle and CSDE Affiliate Rachel Fyall‘s research on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on low-income housing security was recently cited in a New York Times article on the impending eviction crisis in many U.S. cities. Fowle and Fyall’s report, available in full HERE, uses interview and survey data from low-income tenants to understand the effects of eviction moratoria on housing security.