Nicholas Freudenberg
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 385567 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Nicholas Freudenberg |
| PRENOMES | Nicholas |
| SOBRENOME | Freudenberg |
| ASSINATURA | FREUDENBERG N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | City University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5159-6914 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 64 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 358 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 64 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1984 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Activism to Modify the Social Determinants of Health
While mainstream public health has recognized the prime role of social determinants of health (SDOH) in shaping patterns of health and disease, the field has struggled to find meaningful ways to tackle these fundamental causes of health and health inequities. Though often overlooked within the field of public health, activist campaigns have been a vital force for securing advances in confronting and modifying SDOH, from obtaining wage increases t…
Finding Solutions
Many economic, academic, and social factors influence college completion, and scholars have documented that a significant cause of students leaving school before graduation is that many do not have their basic needs for food, housing, and health care met. These barriers undermine their academic success by forcing students to reduce the time spent on their studies, work more hours, or stop out of school to support themselves or their families. Unm…
Urban Health in Africa
Corporate activities that influence population health
The Cumulative Impact of Unmet Essential Needs on Indicators of Attrition
Commercial determinants of health
Defining and conceptualising the commercial determinants of health
Integrating Public Health Research and Teaching With Social Justice Activism
In this commentary, we reflect on the lessons we have learned from our successes and failures in aligning the roles of scholars and activists. Our hope is to provide insights that can guide public health students, faculty, practitioners, and activists seeking to chart their professional, political, and personal futures in today’s polarized and catastrophe-burdened world. Several experiences motivate us to write this commentary now. In the last fe…
Assessing the health impacts of transnational corporations
BACKGROUND: The practices of transnational corporations (TNCs) affect population health through unhealthy products, shaping social determinants of health, or influencing the regulatory structures governing their activities. There has been limited research on community exposures to TNC policies and practices. The aim of this paper was to adapt existing Health Impact Assessment methods that were previously used for both a fast food and an extractiv…
The Mediating Effect of E-Cigarette Harm Perception in the Relationship between E-Cigarette Advertising Exposure and E-Cigarette Use
Exposure to e-cigarette advertising is associated with e-cigarette use among young people. This study examined the mediating effect of e-cigarette harm perception on the above relationship. Cross-sectional survey data were collected from 2112 college students in New York City in 2017-2018. The analytic sample comprised 2078 participants (58.6% females) who provided completed data. Structural equal modeling was performed to examine if e-cigarette …
Use of environmental scan to assess density, content, and variation of predatory food and beverage marketing in New York City
Becoming the Public Health Leaders We Need to Be
Becoming the Public Health Leaders We Need to Be Nicholas FreudenbergDrPH Affiliation The author is with the City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, New York, NY. CopyRightCorrespondence should be sent to Nicholas Freudenberg, DrPH, 55 W 125th St, New York, NY 10027 (e-mail: [email protected]). Reprints can be ordered at http://www.ajph.org by clicking the “Reprints” link. https://doi.org/10.210…
To Protect Young Children’s Health, Limit Marketing and Ubiquity of Unhealthy Foods and Beverages
Defining Priorities for Action and Research on the Commercial Determinants of Health
In recent years, the concept of commercial determinants of health (CDoH) has attracted scholarly, public policy, and activist interest. To date, however, this new attention has failed to yield a clear and consistent definition, well-defined metrics for quantifying its impact, or coherent directions for research and intervention. By tracing the origins of this concept over 2 centuries of interactions between market forces and public health action …
The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on College Students’ Health and Financial Stability in New York City
A Public Health Agenda for the 2020s
Preparing the Urban Public Health Workforce
Oxford University Press;2021 Hardcover: 361 pp;$38.50 ISBN-10: 0190885300 ISBN-13: 978-0190885304 rban Public Health: A Research Toolkit for Practice and Impact seeks to prepare public health and other professionals to understand, measure, and change urban settings to improve the well-being of people living in cities and shrink the wide gaps in health that now characterize most cities. Edited by Gina S. Lovasi, Ana V. Diez-Roux, and Jennifer Kolk…
Covid-19
A Call for a National Agenda for a Healthy, Equitable, and Sustainable Food System
In less than a month, US voters will choose their next president and Congress, creating the opportunity for food, farm, and social justice activists to shape a new federal food agenda. Whether Demo
Population Thinking Instruction in High Schools
College Students and SNAP
Over the last decade, multiple studies of food insecurity among college students have found rates from 20% to more than 50%, considerably higher than the 12% rate for the entire US population. Reasons for higher rates of food insecurity among college students include a growing population of low-income college students, high college costs and insufficient financial aid, more financial hardship among many low- and moderate-income families, a weak l…
The Lessons of Spring 1968 for Public Health
The article discusses the significance of social movements of the 1960's on public health in the U.S. Topics include the influence of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) organization founded in 1959 on the politics, career choices and values of its members, and the need for schools to nurture people to analyze health and disease, consider strategies to activate and mobilize around protecting health and advancing equity, and learn technica…
Defining Appropriate Roles for Corporations in Public Health Research and Practice
"Defining Appropriate Roles for Corporations in Public Health Research and Practice." , 108(11), pp. 1440–1441
Defining Roles for Schools and Programs of Public Health in the Age of Trump
Defining Roles for Schools and Programs of Public Health in the Age of Trump Affiliation Chris Palmedo PhD, Grace Sembajwe DSc, Elizabeth Geltman JD, Daliah Heller PhD, Lynn Roberts PhD, and Nicholas Freudenberg DrPHChris Palmedo, Lynn Roberts, and Nicholas Freudenberg are with the Department of Community Health and Social Sciences, Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, City University of New York, New York, NY. Grace Sembajwe is wi…
Assessing the Public Health Impact of the mHealth App Business
Do mobile health applications (mHealth apps) promise solutions to such pressing public health problems as increasing access to care, reducing inequalities in health, lowering health care costs, and providing people with new tools to reduce risky behavior and manage chronic diseases? To answer this question, public health professionals and researchers need to examine how the more than 259 000 mHealth apps now available in the US market contribute …
Cities and population health
Urban as a Determinant of Health
Cities are the predominant mode of living, and the growth in cities is related to the expansion of areas that have concentrated disadvantage. The foreseeable trend is for rising inequities across a wide range of social and health dimensions. Although qualitatively different, this trend exists in both the developed and developing worlds. Improving the health of people in slums will require new analytic frameworks. The social-determinants approach …
Coming Home From Jail
Each year, more than 10 million people enter US jails, most returning home within a few weeks. Because jails concentrate people with infectious and chronic diseases, substance abuse, and mental health problems, and reentry policies often exacerbate these problems, the experiences of people leaving jail may contribute to health inequities in the low-income communities to which they return. Our study of the experiences in the year after release of …
Not in our backyards
In the last decade, environmental activism in local communities has grown dramatically. Unlike the national environmental organizations, which are predominantly white and middle class, local environmental groups draw their members from a broad cross‐section of class and occupational categories. Members of minority groups are active as well, and women often have leadership roles. Unlike the nationals, grassroots groups emphasize protection of publ…
Citizen action for environmental health
A convenience sample of 242 community organizations involved in environmental health issues was surveyed regarding each group's goals, activities, and problems. The 110 groups that replied identified 153 health-threatening hazards including toxic waste dumps, pesticide spraying, and air or water pollution. The most common health conditions which respondents attributed to these hazards were cancer, respiratory problems, birth defects, and reproduc…
Addressing Urban Health in Detroit, New York City, and Seattle Through Community-Based Participatory Research Partnerships
Objective. This study describes key activities integral to the development of 3 community-based participatory research (CBPR) partnerships. Methods. We compared findings from individual case studies conducted at 3 urban research centers (URCs) to identify crosscutting adaptations of a CBPR approach in the first 4 years of the partnerships’ development. Results. Activities critical in partnership development include sharing decisionmaking, definin…
The Impact of New York City’s 1975 Fiscal Crisis on the Tuberculosis, HIV, and Homicide Syndemic
In 1975, New York City experienced a fiscal crisis rooted in long-term political and economic changes in the city. Budget and policy decisions designed to alleviate this fiscal crisis contributed to the subsequent epidemics of tuberculosis, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, and homicide in New York City. Because these conditions share underlying social determinants, we consider them a syndemic, i.e., all 3 combined to create an excess…
The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on College Students’ Health and Financial Stability in New York City
College Students and SNAP
Over the last decade, multiple studies of food insecurity among college students have found rates from 20% to more than 50%, considerably higher than the 12% rate for the entire US population. Reasons for higher rates of food insecurity among college students include a growing population of low-income college students, high college costs and insufficient financial aid, more financial hardship among many low- and moderate-income families, a weak l…
Adverse Effects of US Jail and Prison Policies on the Health and Well-Being of Women of Color
In the past few decades, US policies have led to an unprecedented increase in the number of people behind bars. While more men than women are incarcerated, the rate of increase for women has been higher. Evidence of the negative impact of incarceration on the health of women of color suggests strategies to reduce these adverse effects. Correctional policies contribute to disparities in health between White women and women of color, providing a pu…
Condom availability in New York City public high schools
OBJECTIVES: This study examines the impact of the condom availability program in New York City public high schools by comparing rates of sexual activity and condom use for New York students and similar students in Chicago. METHODS: A total of 7119 students from 12 randomly selected New York schools and 5738 students from 10 Chicago schools participated in a cross-sectional survey. RESULTS: New York students, compared with Chicago students, report…
Perspectives on urban conditions and population health
The majority of the world's population will live in cities in the next few years and the pace of urbanization worldwide will continue to accelerate over the coming decades. While the number of megacities is projected to increase, the largest population growth is expected to be in cities of less than one million people. Such a dramatic demographic shift can be expected to have an impact on population health. Although there has been historic intere…
Strengthening Community Capacity to Participate in Making Decisions to Reduce Disproportionate Environmental Exposures
Environmental exposures impose a disproportionate health burden on low-income populations and communities of color. One contributing factor may be the obstacles such communities face to full participation in making policy decisions about environmental health. This study described and analyzed the characteristics that contributed to communities' capacity to participate in making environmental decisions and suggested steps public agencies could tak…
Community Schools
Evidence, Power, and Policy Change in Community-Based Participatory Research
Meaningful improvements in health require modifying the social determinants of health. As policies are often underlying causes of the living conditions that shape health, policy change becomes a health goal. This focus on policy has led to increasing interest in expanding the focus of community-based participatory research (CBPR) to change not only communities but also policies. To best realize this potential, the relationship between evidence an…
The Cycle of Social Exclusion for Urban, Young Men of Color in the United States
This article explores how incarceration amplifies the disconnection from school and work experienced by urban, young men of color in the United States and ultimately leads to their social exclusion. The authors draw on longitudinal data collected in interviews with 397 men age 16 to 18 in a New York City jail and then again one year after their release. Using logistic regression analysis, the authors found that though incarceration did not appear…
Community Reentry
Toward a Healthy High Schools Movement
Although research shows that education and health are closely intertwined, health professionals have difficulty using this evidence to improve health and educational outcomes and reduce inequities. We call for a social movement for healthy high schools in the United States that would improve school achievement and graduation rates; create school environments that promote lifelong individual, family, and community health and prevent chronic illnes…
Cities of Consumption
Covid-19
The Association of Ethnic Pride With Health and Social Outcomes Among Young Black and Latino Men After Release From Jail
The goal of this study was to understand whether ethnic pride among young, incarcerated Black and Latino men was associated with successful community reentry. We interviewed 397 Black and Latino men 16 to 18 years old in a New York City jail and then again 1 year after their release to determine the relationship between participants' sense of ethnic pride during incarceration, and substance use, violence, recidivism, and education/employment afte…
Engaging Youth in Food Activism in New York City
Implications of the World Trade Center Attack for the Public Health and Health Care Infrastructures
The September 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center had profound effects on the well-being of New York City. The authors describe and assess the strengths and weaknesses of the city’s response to the public health, environmental/ occupational health, and mental health dimensions of the attack in the first 6 months after the event. They also examine the impact on the city’s health care and social service system. The authors suggest lessons th…
Can a Food Justice Movement Improve Nutrition and Health? A Case Study of the Emerging Food Movement in New York City
Finding Synergy
Although researchers acknowledge that health disparities have multiple determinants, most recommendations for reducing inequities focus on a single approach. We suggest integrating 2 approaches for reducing disparities: improving access to primary care and updating and more vigorously enforcing consumer and environmental protection laws. This strategy could reduce the main causes of disparities, such as chronic diseases and injuries; win public a…
Citizen action for environmental health
A convenience sample of 242 community organizations involved in environmental health issues was surveyed regarding each group's goals, activities, and problems. The 110 groups that replied identified 153 health-threatening hazards including toxic waste dumps, pesticide spraying, and air or water pollution. The most common health conditions which respondents attributed to these hazards were cancer, respiratory problems, birth defects, and reproduc…
Dr. Freudenberg Responds
Dr. Freudenberg Responds Nicholas Freudenberg Arnold Cohen David Harris CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.74.12.1422-b Published Online: October 07, 2011
Not in our backyards
In the last decade, environmental activism in local communities has grown dramatically. Unlike the national environmental organizations, which are predominantly white and middle class, local environmental groups draw their members from a broad cross‐section of class and occupational categories. Members of minority groups are active as well, and women often have leadership roles. Unlike the nationals, grassroots groups emphasize protection of publ…
Condom availability in New York City public high schools
OBJECTIVES: This study examines the impact of the condom availability program in New York City public high schools by comparing rates of sexual activity and condom use for New York students and similar students in Chicago. METHODS: A total of 7119 students from 12 randomly selected New York schools and 5738 students from 10 Chicago schools participated in a cross-sectional survey. RESULTS: New York students, compared with Chicago students, report…
Health promotion in the city
Jails, prisons, and the health of urban populations
Adverse Effects of US Jail and Prison Policies on the Health and Well-Being of Women of Color
In the past few decades, US policies have led to an unprecedented increase in the number of people behind bars. While more men than women are incarcerated, the rate of increase for women has been higher. Evidence of the negative impact of incarceration on the health of women of color suggests strategies to reduce these adverse effects. Correctional policies contribute to disparities in health between White women and women of color, providing a pu…
Healthy Housing
We sought to characterize and to evaluate the success of current public health interventions related to housing. Two reviewers contentanalyzed 72 articles selected from 12 electronic databases of US interventions from 1990 to 2001. Ninety-two percent of the interventions addressed a single condition, most often lead poisoning, injury, or asthma. Fifty-seven percent targeted children, and 13% targeted seniors. The most common intervention strategi…
Implications of the World Trade Center Attack for the Public Health and Health Care Infrastructures
The September 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center had profound effects on the well-being of New York City. The authors describe and assess the strengths and weaknesses of the city’s response to the public health, environmental/ occupational health, and mental health dimensions of the attack in the first 6 months after the event. They also examine the impact on the city’s health care and social service system. The authors suggest lessons th…
Addressing Urban Health in Detroit, New York City, and Seattle Through Community-Based Participatory Research Partnerships
Objective. This study describes key activities integral to the development of 3 community-based participatory research (CBPR) partnerships. Methods. We compared findings from individual case studies conducted at 3 urban research centers (URCs) to identify crosscutting adaptations of a CBPR approach in the first 4 years of the partnerships’ development. Results. Activities critical in partnership development include sharing decisionmaking, definin…
Coming Home From Jail
Each year, more than 10 million people enter US jails, most returning home within a few weeks. Because jails concentrate people with infectious and chronic diseases, substance abuse, and mental health problems, and reentry policies often exacerbate these problems, the experiences of people leaving jail may contribute to health inequities in the low-income communities to which they return. Our study of the experiences in the year after release of …
Perspectives on urban conditions and population health
The majority of the world's population will live in cities in the next few years and the pace of urbanization worldwide will continue to accelerate over the coming decades. While the number of megacities is projected to increase, the largest population growth is expected to be in cities of less than one million people. Such a dramatic demographic shift can be expected to have an impact on population health. Although there has been historic intere…
Cities and population health
Community Reentry
The Impact of New York City’s 1975 Fiscal Crisis on the Tuberculosis, HIV, and Homicide Syndemic
In 1975, New York City experienced a fiscal crisis rooted in long-term political and economic changes in the city. Budget and policy decisions designed to alleviate this fiscal crisis contributed to the subsequent epidemics of tuberculosis, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, and homicide in New York City. Because these conditions share underlying social determinants, we consider them a syndemic, i.e., all 3 combined to create an excess…
Freudenberg Responds
Urban as a Determinant of Health
Cities are the predominant mode of living, and the growth in cities is related to the expansion of areas that have concentrated disadvantage. The foreseeable trend is for rising inequities across a wide range of social and health dimensions. Although qualitatively different, this trend exists in both the developed and developing worlds. Improving the health of people in slums will require new analytic frameworks. The social-determinants approach …
Cities of Consumption
Nowhere to go
BACKGROUND: Drug and alcohol using women leaving prison or jail face many challenges to successful re-integration in the community and are severely hampered in their efforts by the stigma of drug or alcohol use compounded by the stigma of incarceration. METHODS: This qualitative study is based on individual semi-structured interviews and focus groups with 17 women who had recently left jail about the challenges they faced on reentry. RESULTS: Our…
To Reduce Urban Disparities in Health, Strengthen and Enforce Equitably Environmental and Consumer Laws
Sex partnerships, health, and social risks of young men leaving jail
This study highlights the importance and potential benefits of health interventions that engage young Black and Latino men who are involved in the criminal justice system in the US, as well as their sex partners, in health promotion programs. The study also confirms the need for programs that address the employment and housing needs of young men after they leave correctional facilities
A Tale of Two ObesCities
Finding Synergy
Although researchers acknowledge that health disparities have multiple determinants, most recommendations for reducing inequities focus on a single approach. We suggest integrating 2 approaches for reducing disparities: improving access to primary care and updating and more vigorously enforcing consumer and environmental protection laws. This strategy could reduce the main causes of disparities, such as chronic diseases and injuries; win public a…
Toward a Healthy High Schools Movement
Although research shows that education and health are closely intertwined, health professionals have difficulty using this evidence to improve health and educational outcomes and reduce inequities. We call for a social movement for healthy high schools in the United States that would improve school achievement and graduation rates; create school environments that promote lifelong individual, family, and community health and prevent chronic illnes…
Can a Food Justice Movement Improve Nutrition and Health? A Case Study of the Emerging Food Movement in New York City
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