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Better but Not Well: Mental Health Policy in the United States Since 1950The past half-century has been marked by major changes in the treatment of mental illness: important advances in understanding mental illnesses, increases in spending on mental health care and support of people with mental illnesses, and the availability …
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Oportunidades para Exportação de Produtos Compatíveis com a Floresta na Amazônia BrasileiraQuais atividades podem impulsionar o desenvolvimento econômico regenerativo e de baixo carbono da Amazônia ainda nessa década? As respostas mais frequentes envolvem o processamento de matérias-primas que hoje são vendidas em estado bruto, a venda de …
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Preserving History or Hindering Progress: Effect of Historic Districts on Local Housing Markets Picture an iconic Greenwich Village street. Centuries-old cobblestone underfoot. Earth-toned homes, no more than a few stories high. Picture-perfect trees lining the sidewalk and lush ivy climbing the brownstones... That’s no accident. One of 115 …
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NYU Tandon School of EngineeringOVERVIEW While we cannot guarantee capacity for NYU Wagner students in NYU Tandon School of Engineering (NYU Tandon)'s courses you are welcome to request registration for an approved course. NYU Wagner students who wish to take an elective at the NYU …
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Leading Large Scale Change in Government Large-scale change initiatives are efforts that require the collaboration of multiple agencies; the creation of detailed, shared protocols; the requisite shifts in organizational culture; strong personal commitment and leadership; and frequently the …
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Study Co-Authored by Professor Victor Rodwin Finds Delhi's Health System Is Making Inadequate Progress Over the past decade, India has emerged as one of world’s most important engines of economic growth. In the health sector, India is often associated with its accomplishments in promoting innovation in the delivery of health services and production of …
Faculty Profile
Eileen Sullivan-Marx Eileen Sullivan-Marx is dean emerita of New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing. She served as dean and Erline Perkins McGriff Professor from 2012-2023. She is past president of the American Academy of Nursing. Prior to NYU, Dr. Sullivan-Marx …
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Stephanie MavronicolasWhat led you to your current organization/role? I credit my experience at NYU Wagner with helping to form my path to working in the public sector in affordable housing finance. While I was completing my Masters, I was able to gain exposure to City …
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Transit mess was years in the making—
now we must all chip in to fix itMitchell L. Moss, NYU Rudin Center Director, wrote an op-ed in Crain's New York Business urging policymakers to fund the subways with car service fees and gas and internet sales taxes. "Joe Lhota is the right leader for the Metropolitan Transportation …
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Social Innovation & Investment InitiativeAs the world’s population continues to grow, so does the need for finding innovative entrepreneurial and financial solutions to address our most pressing social challenges. NYU Wagner’s Social Innovation & Investment Initiative provides the tools, …
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What’s the Worst That Can Happen? Social Media Protocols and PoliciesTimely updates, increased citizen engagement, and more effective marketing are just a few of the reasons transportation agencies have already started to adopt social media networking tools. Best Practices for Transportation Agency Use of Social Media …
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Methylmercury exposure in a subsistence fishing community in Lake Chapala, Mexico: an ecological approachBACKGROUND: Elevated concentrations of mercury have been documented in fish in Lake Chapala in central Mexico, an area that is home to a large subsistence fishing community. However, neither the extent of human mercury exposure nor its sources and routes …
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Attitudinal and contextual factors associated with discussion of sexual issues during adolescent health visitsThe purpose was to examine attitudinal and contextual factors associated with the occurrence of sexual health assessments during adolescent primary care visits. A total of 313 primarily African-American youth aged 11-21 years from 16 community-based …
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Factors influencing participation in weekly support groups among women completing an HIV/STD Intervention programOver the past three decades, the influence and importance of social support has been well documented and the findings have suggested a beneficial effect on stress-related situations, mental and physical health, and social functioning. More recently, small …
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Digital Infrastructures: Enabling Civil and Environmental Systems through Information TechnologyAn invisible network of digital technology systems underlies the highly visible networks of roads, waterways, satellites, and power-lines. Increasingly, these systems are becoming the "infrastructure's infrastructure," providing a crucial array of data on …
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Medicare Payments, Health Care Services Use, and Telemedicine Implementation Cost in Randomized Trial Comparing Telemedicine Case Management With Usual Care in Medically Underserved Patients With Diabetes MellitusObjective To determine whether a diabetes case management telemedicine intervention reduced healthcare expenditures, as measured by Medicare claims, and to assess the costs of developing and implementing the telemedicine intervention. Design We studied …
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Do We Get What We Pay For? Cost-Effectiveness of Adding Contingency Management.Aims To assess the relative cost-effectiveness of lower versus higher cost prize-based contingency management (CM) treatments for cocaine abuse. Design Cost-effectiveness analyses based on resource utilization, unit costs and outcomes from a previous CM …
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Themes and New DirectionsAn invisible network of digital technology systems underlies the highly visible networks of roads, waterways, satellites, and power-lines. Increasingly, these systems are becoming the "infrastructure's infrastructure," providing a crucial array of data on …
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WaterAn invisible network of digital technology systems underlies the highly visible networks of roads, waterways, satellites, and power-lines. Increasingly, these systems are becoming the "infrastructure's infrastructure," providing a crucial array of data on …
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Telecommunications: Catastrophe and Recovery in the Information CityAn invisible network of digital technology systems underlies the highly visible networks of roads, waterways, satellites, and power-lines. Increasingly, these systems are becoming the "infrastructure's infrastructure," providing a crucial array of data on …
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Housing Partnerships: A New Approach to a Market at a CrossroadsA revolutionary housing finance concept can help many more Americans buy the homes of their dreams, while simultaneously furnishing vast, new investment opportunities for financial institutions and investors. The idea: enable consumers to purchase part of …
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Mass Transit Infrastructure and Urban HealthMass transit is a critical infrastructure of urban environments worldwide. The public uses it extensively, with roughly 9 billion mass transit trips occurring annually in the United States alone according to the U.S. Department of Transportation data. Its …
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Nonprofit Housing and Neighborhood SpilloversNonprofit organizations play a critical role in U.S. housing policy, a role typically justified by the claim that their housing investments produce significant neighborhood spillover benefits. However, little work has actually been done to measure these …