Edmond D Shenassa
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 5535200 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Edmond D Shenassa |
| PRENOMES | Edmond D |
| SOBRENOME | Shenassa |
| ASSINATURA | SHENASSA E D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Brown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6244-5847 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 49 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1994 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2017 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Maternal smoking during pregnancy and offspring antisocial behaviour
BACKGROUND: Although many observational studies have found a strong association between maternal smoking during pregnancy (MSP) and offspring antisocial behaviour, the likelihood that this relationship is causal remains unclear. To comment on the potential causality of this association, the current investigation used a between-within decomposition approach to examine the association between MSP and multiple indices of adolescent and adult antisoc…
Davis et al. Respond
AffiliationsRegina R. Davis, Sandra L. Hofferth, and Edmond D. Shenassa are with the Department of Family Science, Maternal and Child Health Program, University of Maryland School of Public Health, College Park. Regina R. Davis is also with the American Public Health Association, Washington, DC
Gestational Weight Gain and Risk of Infant Death in the United States
Objectives. We examined the association of prepregnancy body mass index (BMI) and gestational weight gain (GWG) with risk of death during infancy using the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM’s) Pregnancy Weight Gain Guidelines. Methods. We obtained maternal and infant data for 2004–2008 from 159 244 women with a singleton, full-term, live birth in the 41 states that participated in phase 5 of the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System. We fit logi…
Maternal Smoking, Breastfeeding, and Risk of Childhood Overweight
Dampness and Mold in the Home and Depression
Objectives. We evaluated a previously reported association between residence in a damp and moldy dwelling and the risk of depression and investigated whether depression was mediated by perception of control over one’s home or mold-related physical illness. Methods. We used survey data from 8 European cities. A dampness and mold score was created from resident- and inspector-reported data. Depression was assessed using a validated index of depress…
Ethnic/Racial Disparities in Hospital Procedure Volume for Lung Resection for Lung Cancer
BACKGROUND: Ethnic/racial minorities experience poorer outcomes from lung cancer than non-Hispanic whites. Higher hospital procedure volume is associated with better survival from lung resection for lung cancer. OBJECTIVES: We examined whether (1) ethnic/racial minorities are more likely to obtain lung resections at lower volume hospitals, (2) ethnicity/race is associated with inpatient mortality, (3) hospital volume mediates this association, an…
The Environmental “Riskscape” and Social Inequality
BACKGROUND: Research indicates that the double jeopardy of exposure to environmental hazards combined with place-based stressors is associated with maternal and child health (MCH) disparities. OBJECTIVE AND DISCUSSION: Our aim is to present evidence that individual-level and place-based psychosocial stressors may compromise host resistance such that environmental pollutants would have adverse health effects at relatively lower doses, thus partial…
Utility of indices of gun availability in the community
Objective: To estimate the degree to which the proportion of homicides and suicides committed with a gun is associated with reported availability of firearms across Chicago neighbourhoods. Methods: Data were collected as part of the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN), a combined neighbourhood and individual level study of the city of Chicago. The study used data from 837 PHDCN participants between the ages of 17 and 22,…
Safer storage of firearms at home and risk of suicide
Objective: To estimate the protective effect of storing firearms locked or unloaded, or both, on the risk of suicide by firearms among people with relatively low intention to die. Design and setting: Cross sectional survey. The 1993 National Mortality Followback Survey of 22 957 deaths in the United States, representing 2.2 million people, conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics. Participants: Decedent’s next of kin answered questi…
Social Disparities in Housing and Related Pediatric Injury
Objectives. We conducted an ecologic analysis to determine whether housing characteristics mediate the associations between concentration of poverty and pediatric injury and between concentration of racial minorities and pediatric injury and whether the association between housing conditions and pediatric injury is independent of other risks. Methods. We created a hierarchical data set by linking individual-level data for pediatric injury with ce…
Lethality of firearms relative to other suicide methods
Objectives: (1) To quantify lethality of firearms relative to other suicide methods, (2) to quantify the extent to which suicide mortality may be reduced by limiting access to firearms. Methods: Data on suicides and hospitalised para-suicides that occurred in the state of Illinois from 1990 to 1997 were combined. Total number of episodes for each suicide method was estimated as the sum of the number of suicides and the number of para-suicides for…
Delivering the goods
The utility and feasibility of community intervention and prevention programs depend greatly on the accuracy by which programs' participants are screened from among community dwellers. This is because indiscriminate application of the program to the entire community benefits only a few, while it can even harm the many others. It is therefore necessary to define and screen a target population so the program can be delivered exclusively to them. Co…
On the application of community psychology to public health
On the application of community psychology to public health
Community psychology and public health should be natural allies, yet the two fields operate sufficiently independently of each other to undermine their capacity to reach what might be common objectives. This discontinuity is in part a reflection of differential priority attached to explaining health outcomes and identifying individuals' health status by the two fields. To foster crossdisciplinary work here we highlight the distinction between exp…
Adolescents' perceptions of their peers' health norms
OBJECTIVES. The purpose of this study was to determine the relative importance adolescents place on preventive health behaviors. METHODS. Data were from a survey of California adolescents (n = 5040). Respondents were asked how important it was to their peers to avoid drugs, marijuana, cigarettes, heavy drinking, and drinking and driving and to maintain seat belt use, fitness, weight control, and healthy eating habits. Results were compared with d…
Tobacco control for high-risk youth
Most tobacco use rates for adolescents do not take into account high school dropouts or students involved in alternative school settings. Project IMPACT (Innovative Methods for Peers Actively Controlling Tobacco) was a tobacco use prevention and cessation program for high-risk youth that tracked 680 continuation high school students for 18 months. Tracking and attrition is of particular concern in research on smoking and drug use in youth due to …
Lethality of firearms relative to other suicide methods
Objectives: (1) To quantify lethality of firearms relative to other suicide methods, (2) to quantify the extent to which suicide mortality may be reduced by limiting access to firearms. Methods: Data on suicides and hospitalised para-suicides that occurred in the state of Illinois from 1990 to 1997 were combined. Total number of episodes for each suicide method was estimated as the sum of the number of suicides and the number of para-suicides for…
Social Disparities in Housing and Related Pediatric Injury
Objectives. We conducted an ecologic analysis to determine whether housing characteristics mediate the associations between concentration of poverty and pediatric injury and between concentration of racial minorities and pediatric injury and whether the association between housing conditions and pediatric injury is independent of other risks. Methods. We created a hierarchical data set by linking individual-level data for pediatric injury with ce…
Safer storage of firearms at home and risk of suicide
Objective: To estimate the protective effect of storing firearms locked or unloaded, or both, on the risk of suicide by firearms among people with relatively low intention to die. Design and setting: Cross sectional survey. The 1993 National Mortality Followback Survey of 22 957 deaths in the United States, representing 2.2 million people, conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics. Participants: Decedent’s next of kin answered questi…
Dampness and Mold in the Home and Depression
Objectives. We evaluated a previously reported association between residence in a damp and moldy dwelling and the risk of depression and investigated whether depression was mediated by perception of control over one’s home or mold-related physical illness. Methods. We used survey data from 8 European cities. A dampness and mold score was created from resident- and inspector-reported data. Depression was assessed using a validated index of depress…
Delivering the goods
The utility and feasibility of community intervention and prevention programs depend greatly on the accuracy by which programs' participants are screened from among community dwellers. This is because indiscriminate application of the program to the entire community benefits only a few, while it can even harm the many others. It is therefore necessary to define and screen a target population so the program can be delivered exclusively to them. Co…
Gestational Weight Gain and Risk of Infant Death in the United States
Objectives. We examined the association of prepregnancy body mass index (BMI) and gestational weight gain (GWG) with risk of death during infancy using the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM’s) Pregnancy Weight Gain Guidelines. Methods. We obtained maternal and infant data for 2004–2008 from 159 244 women with a singleton, full-term, live birth in the 41 states that participated in phase 5 of the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System. We fit logi…
Maternal smoking during pregnancy and offspring antisocial behaviour
BACKGROUND: Although many observational studies have found a strong association between maternal smoking during pregnancy (MSP) and offspring antisocial behaviour, the likelihood that this relationship is causal remains unclear. To comment on the potential causality of this association, the current investigation used a between-within decomposition approach to examine the association between MSP and multiple indices of adolescent and adult antisoc…
Utility of indices of gun availability in the community
Objective: To estimate the degree to which the proportion of homicides and suicides committed with a gun is associated with reported availability of firearms across Chicago neighbourhoods. Methods: Data were collected as part of the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN), a combined neighbourhood and individual level study of the city of Chicago. The study used data from 837 PHDCN participants between the ages of 17 and 22,…
Adolescents' perceptions of their peers' health norms
OBJECTIVES. The purpose of this study was to determine the relative importance adolescents place on preventive health behaviors. METHODS. Data were from a survey of California adolescents (n = 5040). Respondents were asked how important it was to their peers to avoid drugs, marijuana, cigarettes, heavy drinking, and drinking and driving and to maintain seat belt use, fitness, weight control, and healthy eating habits. Results were compared with d…
Tobacco control for high-risk youth
Most tobacco use rates for adolescents do not take into account high school dropouts or students involved in alternative school settings. Project IMPACT (Innovative Methods for Peers Actively Controlling Tobacco) was a tobacco use prevention and cessation program for high-risk youth that tracked 680 continuation high school students for 18 months. Tracking and attrition is of particular concern in research on smoking and drug use in youth due to …
Adolescents' perceptions of their peers' health norms
OBJECTIVES. The purpose of this study was to determine the relative importance adolescents place on preventive health behaviors. METHODS. Data were from a survey of California adolescents (n = 5040). Respondents were asked how important it was to their peers to avoid drugs, marijuana, cigarettes, heavy drinking, and drinking and driving and to maintain seat belt use, fitness, weight control, and healthy eating habits. Results were compared with d…
On the application of community psychology to public health
On the application of community psychology to public health
Community psychology and public health should be natural allies, yet the two fields operate sufficiently independently of each other to undermine their capacity to reach what might be common objectives. This discontinuity is in part a reflection of differential priority attached to explaining health outcomes and identifying individuals' health status by the two fields. To foster crossdisciplinary work here we highlight the distinction between exp…
Delivering the goods
The utility and feasibility of community intervention and prevention programs depend greatly on the accuracy by which programs' participants are screened from among community dwellers. This is because indiscriminate application of the program to the entire community benefits only a few, while it can even harm the many others. It is therefore necessary to define and screen a target population so the program can be delivered exclusively to them. Co…
Lethality of firearms relative to other suicide methods
Objectives: (1) To quantify lethality of firearms relative to other suicide methods, (2) to quantify the extent to which suicide mortality may be reduced by limiting access to firearms. Methods: Data on suicides and hospitalised para-suicides that occurred in the state of Illinois from 1990 to 1997 were combined. Total number of episodes for each suicide method was estimated as the sum of the number of suicides and the number of para-suicides for…
Safer storage of firearms at home and risk of suicide
Objective: To estimate the protective effect of storing firearms locked or unloaded, or both, on the risk of suicide by firearms among people with relatively low intention to die. Design and setting: Cross sectional survey. The 1993 National Mortality Followback Survey of 22 957 deaths in the United States, representing 2.2 million people, conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics. Participants: Decedent’s next of kin answered questi…
Social Disparities in Housing and Related Pediatric Injury
Objectives. We conducted an ecologic analysis to determine whether housing characteristics mediate the associations between concentration of poverty and pediatric injury and between concentration of racial minorities and pediatric injury and whether the association between housing conditions and pediatric injury is independent of other risks. Methods. We created a hierarchical data set by linking individual-level data for pediatric injury with ce…
The Environmental “Riskscape” and Social Inequality
BACKGROUND: Research indicates that the double jeopardy of exposure to environmental hazards combined with place-based stressors is associated with maternal and child health (MCH) disparities. OBJECTIVE AND DISCUSSION: Our aim is to present evidence that individual-level and place-based psychosocial stressors may compromise host resistance such that environmental pollutants would have adverse health effects at relatively lower doses, thus partial…
Utility of indices of gun availability in the community
Objective: To estimate the degree to which the proportion of homicides and suicides committed with a gun is associated with reported availability of firearms across Chicago neighbourhoods. Methods: Data were collected as part of the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN), a combined neighbourhood and individual level study of the city of Chicago. The study used data from 837 PHDCN participants between the ages of 17 and 22,…
Dampness and Mold in the Home and Depression
Objectives. We evaluated a previously reported association between residence in a damp and moldy dwelling and the risk of depression and investigated whether depression was mediated by perception of control over one’s home or mold-related physical illness. Methods. We used survey data from 8 European cities. A dampness and mold score was created from resident- and inspector-reported data. Depression was assessed using a validated index of depress…
Ethnic/Racial Disparities in Hospital Procedure Volume for Lung Resection for Lung Cancer
BACKGROUND: Ethnic/racial minorities experience poorer outcomes from lung cancer than non-Hispanic whites. Higher hospital procedure volume is associated with better survival from lung resection for lung cancer. OBJECTIVES: We examined whether (1) ethnic/racial minorities are more likely to obtain lung resections at lower volume hospitals, (2) ethnicity/race is associated with inpatient mortality, (3) hospital volume mediates this association, an…
Maternal Smoking, Breastfeeding, and Risk of Childhood Overweight
Davis et al. Respond
AffiliationsRegina R. Davis, Sandra L. Hofferth, and Edmond D. Shenassa are with the Department of Family Science, Maternal and Child Health Program, University of Maryland School of Public Health, College Park. Regina R. Davis is also with the American Public Health Association, Washington, DC
Gestational Weight Gain and Risk of Infant Death in the United States
Objectives. We examined the association of prepregnancy body mass index (BMI) and gestational weight gain (GWG) with risk of death during infancy using the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM’s) Pregnancy Weight Gain Guidelines. Methods. We obtained maternal and infant data for 2004–2008 from 159 244 women with a singleton, full-term, live birth in the 41 states that participated in phase 5 of the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System. We fit logi…
Maternal smoking during pregnancy and offspring antisocial behaviour
BACKGROUND: Although many observational studies have found a strong association between maternal smoking during pregnancy (MSP) and offspring antisocial behaviour, the likelihood that this relationship is causal remains unclear. To comment on the potential causality of this association, the current investigation used a between-within decomposition approach to examine the association between MSP and multiple indices of adolescent and adult antisoc…
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