Steven M Albert

Datos Biográficos

ID78592
NOMBRESteven M Albert
NOMBRESSteven M
APELLIDOAlbert
FIRMAALBERT S M
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Pittsburgh
ORCID0000-0001-6786-9956
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS52
TOTAL DE CITAS78
TOTAL COMO AUTOR52
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1984
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2024
ÍNDICE H6

  • Psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy for methamphetamine dependence

    Open AccessJeanne Brett, Jonathan Brett et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2024

    Methamphetamine (MA) dependence leads to severe physical and psychological issues. Current treatments, including psychosocial therapies and residential rehabilitation, face limitations such as high relapse rates, cost, and accessibility issues. As a result, there is an urgent need for novel approaches to treat MA dependence that are effective, affordable, and accessible to patients. Psilocybin, the active component in numerous mushrooms of the Ps…

  • Churn in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

    Liyang Xie, Jason C O’Connor et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2024Referencias: 20

    BACKGROUND: The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) provides financial assistance to low-income individuals and families to help them purchase food. However, when participants experience short-term disenrollment from the program, known as churn, it can disrupt their health care usage patterns or result in acute health care needs due to the loss of financial benefits and time burden required to reapply for SNAP. OBJECTIVE: The objecti…

  • Deprescribing as an Opportunity to Facilitate Patient-Centered Care

    Open AccessKenya Ie, Reiko Machino et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2023

    Deprescribing has recently been applied to address polypharmacy, particularly among older adults. However, the characteristics of deprescribing that are likely to improve health outcomes have not been well studied. This study explored the experiences and perspectives of general practitioners and pharmacists with regard to deprescribing in older adults with multimorbidity. A qualitative study was conducted involving eight semi-structured focus gro…

  • Grandparenting, Social Relations, and Mortality in Old Age

    Open AccessHeejung Jang, Fengyan Tang et al.ARTICLEResearch on Aging2022

    Guided by a convoy model of social relations, this study investigates the relationships between grandparenting status, social relations, and mortality among community-dwelling grandparents age 65 and older who are caring for their grandchildren. The data were drawn from the 2008 and 2016 waves of the Health and Retirement Study ( N = 564). Latent class analysis was used to identify the social network structure based on six indicators of interpers…

  • Kidney Disease, Health, and Commodification of Drinking Water

    M W Amarasiri De Silva, Steven M AlbertARTICLEHuman Organization2021

    In response to evidence suggesting that polluted drinking water is a risk factor for Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Etiology (CKDu) in Sri Lanka, the government introduced reverse osmosis (RO) water as an alternative form of drinking water in the North Central Province (NCP) between 2010 and 2016. We examine whether CKDu prevalence and disease progression have been reduced as a result of the introduction of RO water and behavioral changes and …

  • Utility of Self-Reported Heat Stress Symptoms and NGAL Biomarker to Screen for Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Origin (CKDu) in Sri Lanka

    Open AccessPavithra N Kulasooriya, Kithsiri Jayasekara et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021

    Both heat stress symptoms and NGAL values were higher among agricultural workers in endemic CKDu regions. Correlations between NGAL and microalbumin suggested a link between acute kidney injury and chronic kidney disease in the more-exposed sample

  • Use of Zip Code Based Aggregate Indicators to Assess Race Disparities in Covid-19

    Kevin D Long, Steven M AlbertARTICLEEthnicity & Disease2021

    Use of census-defined race-ethnicity proportions by zip code offers a way to identify disparities when individual race-ethnicity data are unavailable

  • GSA Journal Commitment to Inclusion, Equity, and Diversity

    Open AccessSuzanne Meeks, Steven M Albert et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2021

  • Educating the Next Generation of Public Health Social Work Leaders

    Edward Pecukonis, Robert H Keefe et al.ARTICLEJournal of Teaching in Social Work2019Referencias: 1

    This article reports the findings of a 2-day public health social work (PHSW) summit that brought together PHSW educators, practitioners, and administrators to generate ideas for preparing the next generation of PHSW leaders. Data from focus groups revealed four themes: the importance of PHSW in our healthcare delivery system, the need for public health social workers to develop their professional identity, the significance of branding/promoting …

  • National Sleep Foundation's sleep quality recommendations

    Open AccessMaurice M Ohayon, Maurice Ohayon et al.ARTICLESleep Health2017

  • Transgenerational Transmission of Preterm Birth Risk

    Open AccessCollette N Ncube, Daniel A Enquobahrie et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Health Journal2017

  • Racial disparities in the transgenerational transmission of low birthweight risk

    Collette N Ncube, Daniel A Enquobahrie et al.ARTICLEEthnicity and Health2017Referencias: 4

    Objective: To examine the association of maternal low birthweight (LBW) with infant LBW and infant LBW subgroups (i.e. moderate and very LBW), overall and among non-Hispanic (NH) white and NH black mothers. Design: We conducted a population-based cohort study in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, using linked birth record data of NH white and NH black mother-infant pairs ( N = 6,633) born in 1979-1998 and 2009-2011, respectively. The exposure of int…

  • Structural violence and chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology in Sri Lanka

    Open AccessM W Amarasiri De Silva, Steven M Albert et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2017Citada por: 7Referencias: 39

  • Suicide in Sri Lanka

    M W Amarasiri De Silva, Steven M AlbertARTICLEAnthropological Quarterly2017

    Reviewed by: Suicide in Sri Lanka: The Anthropology of an Epidemic by Tom Widger M. W. Amarasiri de Silva and Steven M. Albert Tom Widger, Suicide in Sri Lanka: The Anthropology of an Epidemic (Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series). New York: Routledge, 2014. 222 pp. Anthropology deals with "living people in small places" (Eriksen 2001). In this sense suicide raises fundamental issues for anthropologists. The person who commits suicide succes…

  • Housing Relocation Policy and Violence

    Open AccessAndrea Casas, Jessica Duell et al.ARTICLETrauma Violence & Abuse2016

    This article summarizes and reviews the cross-discipline literature on violent crime in destination neighborhoods postrelocation in order to build a more comprehensive picture of risk factors for violence, as well as how and why housing policies influence risk of violence. High rates of violent crime continue to be a persistent problem in areas of concentrated poverty and public housing. Modern housing programs such as Moving to Opportunity and H…

  • Health behavior change in advance care planning

    Open AccessNatalie C Ernecoff, Christopher R Keane et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2016

    Our ABM is a useful method for representing dynamic social and experiential influences on the ACP decision making process. This model suggests structural interventions, e.g. increasing access to ACP materials in primary care clinics, in addition to improved methods of data collection for behavioral studies, e.g. incorporating longitudinal data to capture behavioral dynamics

  • Association of neighborhood context with offspring risk of preterm birth and low birthweight

    Open AccessCollette N Ncube, Daniel A Enquobahrie et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2016

  • Partnership Building and Implementation of an Integrated Healthy-Aging Program

    Janice C Zgibor, Elizabeth A Schlenk et al.ARTICLEProgress in community health…2016Referencias: 1

    This collaborative partnership created a productive synergy maximizing strengths in both research and program delivery

  • National Sleep Foundation’s updated sleep duration recommendations

    Open AccessMax Hirshkowitz, Kaitlyn Whiton et al.ARTICLESleep Health2015

  • National Sleep Foundation’s sleep time duration recommendations

    Open AccessMax Hirshkowitz, Kaitlyn Whiton et al.ARTICLESleep Health2015

  • The Vicious Cycle of Parental Caregiving and Financial Well-being

    Yeonjung Lee, Fengyan Tang et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2014Citada por: 9Referencias: 4

    This study suggests that there exists a vicious cycle of parental care and lower household income among women. A key concern for policy is female caregivers' financial status when care of older parents is assumed and care burden when women's financial status declines

  • Kumar et al. Respond

    Supriya Kumar, John J Grefenstette et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2014Referencias: 2

    AffiliationsSupriya Kumar and Donald S. Burke are with the Department of Epidemiology Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. John J. Grefenstette and David Galloway are with the Public Health Dynamics Laboratory, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh. Steven M. Albert is with the Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsbu…

  • Primary Prevention of Falls

    Steven M Albert, Jennifer King et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2014Citada por: 2Referencias: 20

    Objectives. We examined a population-wide program, Pennsylvania’s Healthy Steps for Older Adults (HSOA), designed to reduce the incidence of falls among older adults. Older adults completing HSOA are screened and educated regarding fall risk, and those identified as being at high risk are referred to primary care providers and home safety resources. Methods. From 2010 to 2011, older adults who completed HSOA at various senior center sites (n = 81…

  • Correlates of Self-Reported Depressive Symptoms

    Open AccessFauzia Maqsood, Jason D Flatt et al.ARTICLEJournal of Cross-Cultural…2013Referencias: 45

  • Policies to Reduce Influenza in the Workplace

    Supriya Kumar, John J Grefenstette et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2013Citada por: 7Referencias: 27

    Objectives. We examined the impact of access to paid sick days (PSDs) and stay-at-home behavior on the influenza attack rate in workplaces. Methods. We used an agent-based model of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, with PSD data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, standard influenza epidemic parameters, and the probability of staying home when ill. We compared the influenza attack rate among employees resulting from workplace transmission, focu…