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Neighborhood segregation, tree cover and firearm violence in 6 U.S. cities, 2015–2020

Neighborhood segregation, tree cover and firearm violence in 6 U.S. cities, 2015–2020

Publications

Gina South, Michelle Kondo, and colleagues found that even after adjusting for neighborhood privilege, more tree cover was linked to less violence. Takeaways and future directions are discussed in an LDI blog post. Read the full publication
Restraint use characteristics among crash-involved child passengers: identifying opportunities to enhance optimal restraint use

Restraint use characteristics among crash-involved child passengers: identifying opportunities to enhance optimal restraint use

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Allison Curry, Rachel Myers, and team at CHOP CIRP assessed the prevalence of and characteristics related to restraint use from a sample of police reports for motor vehicle crashes that involved a child passenger. They found that optimal age-based restraint use was...
American Academy of Pediatrics: Teen Drivers Often Unsafe on the Road with Speeding and Handheld Cellphone Use

American Academy of Pediatrics: Teen Drivers Often Unsafe on the Road with Speeding and Handheld Cellphone Use

News

A study from Kate McDonald, Kit Delgado, Kevin Rix, Jeff Ebert, and colleagues was featured in a press release from the American Academy of Pediatrics, picked up by Science Daily, and re-shared by Penn Today. Assessing risky teen driving behaviors via smartphone app,...
Effectiveness of a Text Message Intervention Promoting Seat Belt Use Among Young Adults

Effectiveness of a Text Message Intervention Promoting Seat Belt Use Among Young Adults

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Kate McDonald, Kit Delgado, and colleagues demonstrated the effectiveness of a text-messaging program in increasing young adult seat belt use. Among young adults who reported not wearing a seat belt at baseline, 41% in the intervention group used a seat belt at six...
The Epidemiology of Firearm Injuries in the US: The Need for Comprehensive, Real-time, Actionable Data

The Epidemiology of Firearm Injuries in the US: The Need for Comprehensive, Real-time, Actionable Data

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Elinore Kaufman and Kit Delgado wrote a viewpoint paper for JAMA’s Special Issue on Firearm Violence, which summarizes current data on firearm injuries in the US, discusses the limitations of available data sources, and proposes measures for a comprehensive...
Building Black Wealth — The Role of Health Systems in Closing the Gap

Building Black Wealth — The Role of Health Systems in Closing the Gap

Publications

Gina South and colleagues about the role of health system in closing the racial wealth gap, noting its inextricable link to health outcomes. Read the full publication
STAT: How health systems can truly value Black lives: help close the racial wealth gap

STAT: How health systems can truly value Black lives: help close the racial wealth gap

News

Gina South and colleagues penned an op-ed for STAT, suggesting ways health systems can play a role in addressing “one of the most upstream drivers of racial health disparities: the racial wealth gap,” noting that it is difficult to move the needle on...
USA Today: Livestreamed violence compounds America’s horror and inspires copycats, experts say. When will it stop?

USA Today: Livestreamed violence compounds America’s horror and inspires copycats, experts say. When will it stop?

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Desmond Upton Patton was quoted in a USA Today article about the impacts of violence being recorded and shared online. “I’ve been having the same conversation for the last decade,” speaking about the impact of social media on mental health and violence. “We need to...
The Philadelphia Citizen: The Doc Saving Us From Ourselves

The Philadelphia Citizen: The Doc Saving Us From Ourselves

News

Penn physician-scientist Kit Delgado applies what he learns from treating injured patients in the ER to changing the behavior that gets us there in the first place. Read the full story
Unexplained Variation in Firearm Deaths Points to Opportunities

Unexplained Variation in Firearm Deaths Points to Opportunities

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Following the publication of a recent article in JAMA Network Open with a team of PISC Scholars, Elinore Kaufman and Michelle Degli Esposti describe in an LDI blog post how the findings identify opportunities for teasing out what makes the difference in firearm...
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