Decades of research have demonstrated that diabetes affects racial and ethnic minority and
low-income adult populations in the US disproportionately, with relatively intractable …

Background: Black/African American women in the United States are more likely to live in
neighborhoods with higher social vulnerability than other racial/ethnic groups, even when …

Aim The social environment (SE), including social contacts, norms and support, is an
understudied element of the living environment which impacts health. We aim to …

Individuals living in low-income neighborhoods have disproportionately high rates of
obesity, Type-2 diabetes, and cardiometabolic conditions. Perceived safety in one's …

Background Understanding determinants of metabolic risk has become a national priority
given the increasingly high prevalence rate of this condition among US adults. Purpose This …

Background This study aims to examine the effect of time‐variant perceived neighborhood
social cohesion, perceived neighborhood physical disorder, and local crime on …

Perceptions of neighbourhood change have been an important area of inquiry for several
reasons, including for their effects upon place attachment, mobility intentions, and links to …

Introduction Despite the growing recognition of the importance of neighborhood conditions
for cardiometabolic health, causal relationships have been difficult to establish owing to a …

Purpose To examine the association between neighborhood-level social vulnerability and
adherence to scheduled ophthalmology appointments. Methods In this retrospective cohort …

Neighborhood conditions are dynamic; the association of changing neighborhood
socioeconomic factors with cancer preventive behaviors remains unclear. We examined …