News tagged with neighborhoods
Racial disparities exist in access to kidney transplantation
A new study published in the American Journal of Transplantation reveals that racial disparities exist in both the early and late steps in access to kidney transplantation. This study is part of the February special themed ...
Feb 09, 2012 |
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Even neighborhoods with higher-educated ethnic minorities arouse resistance
The resistance towards ethnically mixed neighborhoods decreases if higher-educated people from ethnic minorities live there. Yet even then a large proportion of the autochthonous Dutch population still prefer to avoid neighbourhoods ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jan 09, 2012 |
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Socioeconomic status may explain racial disparities in diet, exercise, and weight
Large disparities exist in obesity and other chronic diseases across racial/ethnic groups in the United States. Are racial differences in diet, exercise, and weight status related to better knowledge about healthy eating ...
Nov 28, 2011 |
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Study finds voters concerned with privacy in US elections
Ever had the feeling that someone was looking over your shoulder while you voted?
Nov 04, 2011 |
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Nextdoor launches neighborhood social networks
Internet startup Nextdoor launched a social network Wednesday designed to strengthen communities by connecting real-world neighbors.
Oct 26, 2011 |
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Moving poor women to lower-poverty neighborhoods improves their health
Low-income women with children who move from high-poverty to lower-poverty neighborhoods experience notable long-term improvements in some aspects of their health, namely reductions in diabetes and extreme obesity, according ...
Oct 20, 2011 |
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Study: growing up in bad neighborhoods has a devastating impact
Growing up in a poor neighborhood significantly reduces the chances that a child will graduate from high school, according to a study published in the October issue of the American Sociological Review. And, the longer a chil ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 04, 2011 |
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Examining motherly fears
Neighborhood poverty is likely to make a mother more fearful about letting her children play outdoors, according to a new study by sociologists at Rice University and Stanford University.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 03, 2011 |
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Resisting peer pressure
The company an adolescent keeps, particularly when it comes to drugs and criminal activity, affects bad behavior. Right?
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 28, 2011 |
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Cellphones spread into pre-teen demographic
Brandon Gonzales has been carrying his black Pantech cellphone with the slide-out keyboard for two years. Brandon is 12.
Sep 22, 2011 |
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Living in poor neighborhood a risk factor for out-of-hospital cardiac death
People living in poor neighborhoods are at higher risk of dying of heart disease outside a hospital than are people who live in wealthier neighborhoods, research suggests.
Sep 20, 2011 |
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Confronting meaninglessness
You've just finished an amazing dinner at your favorite restaurant and you are ready to put on your comfy pajamas and slip into sweet slumber. You arrive at your doorstep and find the front door ajar. Your heart beats wildly ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 12, 2011 |
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Uninsured trauma patients are more likely to use the ED for follow-up care
Providing access to an outpatient clinic isn't enough to keep some trauma patients who have been discharged from the hospital from returning to the emergency department (ED) for follow-up care, even for such minor needs as ...
Aug 25, 2011 |
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Study: Community organization can reduce, negate impact of alcohol outlets on neighborhood violence
The density of businesses that sell alcohol in a community has been tied to local levels of violence, but new research has found that the influence depends on the nature of the community. More stable communities can see little ...
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Aug 22, 2011 |
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Child's face restored after accident, a first in Mexico
Surgeons have re-attached a large part of the face of a seven year-old child torn in a pitbull attack, Mexico's state-run Social Security Institute said Tuesday.
Aug 10, 2011 |
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Neighbourhood
A neighbourhood or neighborhood (see spelling differences) is a geographically localised community within a larger city, town or suburb. Neighbourhoods are often social communities with considerable face-to-face interaction among members. "Researchers have not agreed on an exact definition. Neighbourhood is generally defined spatially as a specific geographic area and functionally as a set of social networks. Neighbourhoods, then, are the spatial units in which face-to-face social interactions occur – the personal settings and situations where residents seek to realise common values, socialise youth, and maintain effective social control."
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