Browsing by Author "Arcaya, Mariana"
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A Health Impact Assessment of a Proposed Bill to Decrease Speed Limits on Local Roads in Massachusetts (U.S.A.)
James, Peter; Ito, Kate; Banay, Rachel Frances; Buonocore, Jonathan James; Wood, Benjamin; Arcaya, Mariana C (MDPI AG, 2014)Decreasing traffic speeds increases the amount of time drivers have to react to road hazards, potentially averting collisions, and makes crashes that do happen less severe. Boston’s regional planning agency, the Metropolitan ... -
A Health Impact Assessment of Proposed Public Transit Service Cuts and Fare Increases in Boston, Massachusetts
James, Peter; Ito, Katherine; Buonocore, Jonathan James; Levy, Jonathan Ian; Arcaya, Mariana C (MDPI, 2014-06-13)Transportation decisions have health consequences that are often not incorporated into policy-making processes. Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is a process that can be used to evaluate health effects of transportation ... -
A Health Impact Assessment of Proposed Public Transportation Service Cuts and Fare Increases in Boston, Massachusetts (U.S.A.)
James, Peter; Ito, Kate; Buonocore, Jonathan J.; Levy, Jonathan I.; Arcaya, Mariana C. (MDPI, 2014)Transportation decisions have health consequences that are often not incorporated into policy-making processes. Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is a process that can be used to evaluate health effects of transportation ... -
Hospital Differences in Cesarean Deliveries in Massachusetts (US) 2004–2006: The Case against Case-Mix Artifact
Cáceres, Isabel A.; Arcaya, Mariana C; Declercq, Eugene; Belanoff, Candice M.; Janakiraman, Vanitha; Cohen, Bruce; Ecker, Jeffrey Lawrence; Smith, Lauren A.; Subramanian, S.V. Venkata (Public Library of Science, 2013)Objective: We examined the extent to which differences in hospital-level cesarean delivery rates in Massachusetts were attributable to hospital-level, rather than maternal, characteristics. Methods: Birth certificate and ... -
Inequalities in health: definitions, concepts, and theories
Arcaya, Mariana C.; Arcaya, Alyssa L.; Subramanian, S. V. (Co-Action Publishing, 2015)Individuals from different backgrounds, social groups, and countries enjoy different levels of health. This article defines and distinguishes between unavoidable health inequalities and unjust and preventable health ... -
Maternal Clinical Diagnoses and Hospital Variation in the Risk of Cesarean Delivery: Analyses of a National US Hospital Discharge Database
Kozhimannil, Katy B.; Arcaya, Mariana C.; Subramanian, S. V. (Public Library of Science, 2014)Background: Cesarean delivery is the most common inpatient surgery in the United States, where 1.3 million cesarean sections occur annually, and rates vary widely by hospital. Identifying sources of variation in cesarean ... -
Neighborhood Self-Selection: The Role of Pre-Move Health Factors on the Built and Socioeconomic Environment
James, Peter; Hart, Jaime E.; Arcaya, Mariana C.; Feskanich, Diane; Laden, Francine; Subramanian, S.V. (MDPI, 2015)Residential self-selection bias is a concern in studies of neighborhoods and health. This bias results from health behaviors predicting neighborhood choice. To quantify this bias, we examined associations between pre-move ... -
Role of health in predicting moves to poor neighborhoods among Hurricane Katrina survivors
Arcaya, Mariana C; Subramanian, S.V. Venkata; Rhodes, Jean E.; Waters, Mary C. (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2014)In contrast to a large literature investigating neighborhood effects on health, few studies have examined health as a determinant of neighborhood attainment. However, the sorting of individuals into neighborhoods by health ...