The past few years have witnessed an explosion of interest in neighborhood or area effects
on health. Several types of empiric studies have been used to examine possible area or …

▪ Abstract Over the past few years there has been growing interest in considering factors
defined at multiple levels in public health research. Multilevel analysis has emerged as one …

While most organizational theories avoid emotion, many entrepreneurs act with emotion.
Entrepreneurs often describe their businesses as their “babies,” expressing personal …

This article explores the possible causal pathways through which neighborhoods might
affect health and then reviews the existing evidence. Although methodological issues make …

Background Research indicates that the double jeopardy of exposure to environmental
hazards combined with place-based stressors is associated with maternal and child health …

In their later years, Americans of different racial and ethnic backgrounds are not in equally
good-or equally poor-health. There is wide variation, but on average older Whites are …

Objectives. Previous studies of maternal health-seeking behavior focused on individual-and
household-level factors. We examined community-level influences on the decision to deliver …

The prevalence of autism has increased precipitously—roughly 10-fold in the past 40 years—
yet no one knows exactly what caused this dramatic rise. Using a large and representative …

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 …

Differences in maternal characteristics only partially explain the lower birth weights of infants
of African-American women. It is hypothesized that economic and social features of urban …