Stephen Buka
Biographic Data
| ID | 1728009 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Buka |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Buka |
| SIGNATURE | BUKA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | S. Bryn Austin and Aarti Patel are with the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Children’s Hospital, Boston, Mass. S. Bryn Austin is also with the Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston. Steven J. Melly is with the Department of Biostatistics and the Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health; Brisa N. Sanchez is with the Department of Biostatistics; and Stephen Buka and Steven L. Gortmaker are with the... |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Longitudinal associations of neighborhood socioeconomic status with cardiovascular risk factors: A 46-year follow-up study
Critical Windows of Prenatal Exposure to Cadmium and Size at Birth
Prenatal cadmium (Cd) exposure has been associated with adverse birth outcomes, but the findings of previous studies are inconsistent. We measured Cd concentrations in urine samples at or near 13, 24, and 35 gestational weeks from 282 women in Wuhan, China. We used generalized estimating equation models to assess the associations between maternal creatinine adjusted urinary Cd concentrations at each trimester and birth size. A significant inverse…
The Interactive Systems Framework Applied to the Strategic Prevention Framework: The Rhode Island Experience
The Interactive Systems Framework for Dissemination and Implementation (ISF) was introduced as a heuristic systems level model to help bridge the gap between research and practice (Wandersman et al., in Am J Commun Psychol 41:171–181, 2008). This model describes three interacting systems with distinct functions that (1) distill knowledge to develop innovations; (2) provide supportive training and technical assistance for dissemination to; (3) a p…
A multilevel investigation of neighborhood effects on parental warmth
Although researchers recognize that social contexts shape parenting behaviors, the relationship between neighborhood environment and parenting remains poorly understood. To address this gap, we investigated the associations between compositional and contextual (structural, social, and safety) characteristics of neighborhoods and parental warmth. Data came from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN) Study and the 1990 Ce…
Depressive Symptoms as a Longitudinal Predictor of Sexual Risk Behaviors Among US Middle and High School Students
OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this study was to examine whether depressive symptoms are predictive of subsequent sexual risk behavior in a national probability sample of US middle and high school students. METHODS. Sexually active, unmarried, middle and high school students (n = 4152) participated in home interviews in waves I and II of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, at an ∼1-year interval. Associations between baseline depress…
Austin Et Al. Respond
We thank Spielman for commenting on our article and giving us an opportunity to continue the dialogue on methodological issues in studying food environments. In response to his point about network versus straight-line distances, we would like to note that in a related study, our research team found network and straight-line distances in Chicago to be highly correlated, and results did not differ when models were tested with network versus straigh…
Clustering of Fast-Food Restaurants Around Schools: A Novel Application of Spatial Statistics to the Study of Food Environments
Objectives. We examined the concentration of fast food restaurants in areas proximal to schools to characterize school neighborhood food environments. Methods. We used geocoded databases of restaurant and school addresses to examine locational patterns of fast‐food restaurants and kindergartens and primary and secondary schools in Chicago. We used the bivariate K function statistical method to quantify the degree of clustering (spatial dependence…
Race/ethnicity and depressive symptoms: A cross-cultural/ethnic comparison among university students in East Asia, North and South America
Clustering of Fast-Food Restaurants Around Schools: A Novel Application of Spatial Statistics to the Study of Food Environments
Objectives. We examined the concentration of fast food restaurants in areas proximal to schools to characterize school neighborhood food environments. Methods. We used geocoded databases of restaurant and school addresses to examine locational patterns of fast‐food restaurants and kindergartens and primary and secondary schools in Chicago. We used the bivariate K function statistical method to quantify the degree of clustering (spatial dependence…
Race/ethnicity and depressive symptoms: A cross-cultural/ethnic comparison among university students in East Asia, North and South America
A multilevel investigation of neighborhood effects on parental warmth
Although researchers recognize that social contexts shape parenting behaviors, the relationship between neighborhood environment and parenting remains poorly understood. To address this gap, we investigated the associations between compositional and contextual (structural, social, and safety) characteristics of neighborhoods and parental warmth. Data came from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN) Study and the 1990 Ce…
Longitudinal associations of neighborhood socioeconomic status with cardiovascular risk factors: A 46-year follow-up study
The Interactive Systems Framework Applied to the Strategic Prevention Framework: The Rhode Island Experience
The Interactive Systems Framework for Dissemination and Implementation (ISF) was introduced as a heuristic systems level model to help bridge the gap between research and practice (Wandersman et al., in Am J Commun Psychol 41:171–181, 2008). This model describes three interacting systems with distinct functions that (1) distill knowledge to develop innovations; (2) provide supportive training and technical assistance for dissemination to; (3) a p…
Race/ethnicity and depressive symptoms: A cross-cultural/ethnic comparison among university students in East Asia, North and South America
Clustering of Fast-Food Restaurants Around Schools: A Novel Application of Spatial Statistics to the Study of Food Environments
Objectives. We examined the concentration of fast food restaurants in areas proximal to schools to characterize school neighborhood food environments. Methods. We used geocoded databases of restaurant and school addresses to examine locational patterns of fast‐food restaurants and kindergartens and primary and secondary schools in Chicago. We used the bivariate K function statistical method to quantify the degree of clustering (spatial dependence…
Depressive Symptoms as a Longitudinal Predictor of Sexual Risk Behaviors Among US Middle and High School Students
OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this study was to examine whether depressive symptoms are predictive of subsequent sexual risk behavior in a national probability sample of US middle and high school students. METHODS. Sexually active, unmarried, middle and high school students (n = 4152) participated in home interviews in waves I and II of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, at an ∼1-year interval. Associations between baseline depress…
Austin Et Al. Respond
We thank Spielman for commenting on our article and giving us an opportunity to continue the dialogue on methodological issues in studying food environments. In response to his point about network versus straight-line distances, we would like to note that in a related study, our research team found network and straight-line distances in Chicago to be highly correlated, and results did not differ when models were tested with network versus straigh…
A multilevel investigation of neighborhood effects on parental warmth
Although researchers recognize that social contexts shape parenting behaviors, the relationship between neighborhood environment and parenting remains poorly understood. To address this gap, we investigated the associations between compositional and contextual (structural, social, and safety) characteristics of neighborhoods and parental warmth. Data came from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN) Study and the 1990 Ce…
The Interactive Systems Framework Applied to the Strategic Prevention Framework: The Rhode Island Experience
The Interactive Systems Framework for Dissemination and Implementation (ISF) was introduced as a heuristic systems level model to help bridge the gap between research and practice (Wandersman et al., in Am J Commun Psychol 41:171–181, 2008). This model describes three interacting systems with distinct functions that (1) distill knowledge to develop innovations; (2) provide supportive training and technical assistance for dissemination to; (3) a p…
Critical Windows of Prenatal Exposure to Cadmium and Size at Birth
Prenatal cadmium (Cd) exposure has been associated with adverse birth outcomes, but the findings of previous studies are inconsistent. We measured Cd concentrations in urine samples at or near 13, 24, and 35 gestational weeks from 282 women in Wuhan, China. We used generalized estimating equation models to assess the associations between maternal creatinine adjusted urinary Cd concentrations at each trimester and birth size. A significant inverse…
Longitudinal associations of neighborhood socioeconomic status with cardiovascular risk factors: A 46-year follow-up study
Medicine (6 works) · Demography (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Population (3 works) · Psychiatry (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Statistics (3 works) · Anxiety (2 works) · Cartography (2 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (2 works)