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Weitzman, B.C., Knickman, J.R., and Shinn, M.Weitzman, B.C., Knickman, J.R., and Shinn, M. …
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Social relations and vulnerability to homelessnessShinn, M, Knickman, J.R., and Weitzman, B.C …
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Predictors of shelter use among low income families: Psychiatric history, substance abuse, and victimizationWeitzman, B.C., Knickman, J.R., and Shinn, M. …
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Factors affecting housing comfort among formerly homeless families: Housing quality or individual vulnerabilities?Berry, C.A. and Weitzman, B.C. …
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Predictors of homelessness from shelter request to housing stability among families in New York CityShinn, M., Weitzman, B.C., Stojanovic, D., Knickman, J.R., Jimenez, L., Duchon, L., James, S., and Krantz, D.H. …
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Appreciative narratives as leadership research: Matching method to lensE. Schall, S. Ospina, B. Godsoe, and J. Dodge …
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A la santé de l'oncle Sam: regards croisés sur les systémes de santé; américain et français (To Uncle Sam's Health: Cross perspectives on the American and French Health Systems)Victor Rodwin, professor of health policy and management at NYU Wagner, and his colleague Didier Tabuteau, counselor of state and professor of health policy at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques and the University of Paris Descartes, have published a new …
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Hidden Talent: Tacit Skill Formation and Labor Market Incorporation of Latino Immigrants in the United StatesThis article examines informal training and skill development pathways of Latino immigrant construction workers in two different urban labor markets: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina. We find that institutional differences …
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101 Careers in Healthcare ManagementCareers in health administration continue to grow despite an overall downturn in the economy. This is a field that offers tremendous job opportunities across the spectrum of healthcare delivery and payment organizations. 101 Careers in Healthcare …
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Access to primary care in Hong Kong, Greater London and New York CityWe investigate avoidable hospital conditions (AHC) in three world cities as a way to assess access to primary care. Residents of Hong Kong are healthier than their counterparts in Greater London or New York City. In contrast to their counterparts in New …
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Race/Ethnicity-Specific Associations of Urinary Phthalates with Childhood Body Mass in a Nationally Representative SampleBackground : Phthalates have antiandrogenic effects and may disrupt lipid and carbohydrate metabolism. Racial/ethnic subpopulations have been documented to have varying urinary phthalate concentrations and prevalences of childhood obesity. Objective : We …
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Banking The WorldAbout 2.5 billion adults, just over half the world’s adult population, lack bank accounts. If we are to realize the goal of extending banking and other financial services to this vast “unbanked” population, we need to consider not only such product …
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How Social Media Moves New York, Part 2: Recommended Social Media Policy for Transportation ProvidersSocial media networks allow transportation providers to reach large numbers of people simultaneously and without a fee, essential factors for the millions of commuters and leisure travelers moving through the New York region every day. This report, based …
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Do Federally Assisted Households Have Access to High Performing Public Schools?A family’s housing unit provides more than simply shelter. It also provides a set of neighborhood amenities and a package of local public services, including, most critically, a local school. Yet housing and education policymakers rarely coordinate their …
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How Social Media Moves New York: Twitter Use by Transportation Providers in the New York RegionSocial media networks are valuable tools for the public outreach needs of transportation providers: they are free, instantaneous, reach large numbers of people simultaneously, and allow for sideline discussions. When transportation providers are trying to …
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Hong Kong and Other World CitiesWith population aging and increasing urbanization, it is important to examine the quality of life of older people living in cities, in particular world cities. However, few comparative studies of world cities examine their health, long-term care systems, …
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Association between urinary bisphenol A concentration and obesity prevalence in children and adolescents.CONTEXT: Bisphenol A (BPA), a manufactured chemical, is found in canned food, polycarbonate-bottled liquids, and other consumer products. In adults, elevated urinary BPA concentrations are associated with obesity and incident coronary artery disease. BPA …
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Entrepreneurship in Services and Socially Disadvantaged in IndiaWhile substantial literature now exists on poverty and inequality among social groups, until now, almost nothing has been known about how the socially dis-advantaged groups fare in entrepreneurship in terms of shares in the GVA, workers employed, and …
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Services Growth in India: A Look Inside the Black Box In this chapter, we take a first stab at analyzing the growth of services in India using firm-level data. …
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Association Between Urinary Bisphenol A Concentration and Obesity Prevalence in Children and AdolescentsContext Bisphenol A (BPA), a manufactured chemical, is found in canned food, polycarbonate-bottled liquids, and other consumer products. In adults, elevated urinary BPA concentrations are associated with obesity and incident coronary artery disease. BPA …
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Infant Antibiotic Exposures and Early-Life Body MassObjectives: To examine the associations of antibiotic exposures during the first 2 years of life and the development of body mass over the first 7 years of life. Design: Longitudinal birth cohort study. Subjects: A total of 11 532 children born at 2500 g …
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Use of community-level data in the National Children's Study to establish the representativeness of segment selection in the Queens Vanguard Site.BACKGROUND: The WHO Multiple Exposures Multiple Effects (MEME) framework identifies community contextual variables as central to the study of childhood health. Here we identify multiple domains of neighborhood context, and key variables describing the …