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April 6, 2010 | Journal Article
This article examines whether the alcohol consumption behavior of individuals is influenced by the alcohol consumption of people in their social network. A more nuanced understanding of the relationship between social networks and alcohol consumption is important because alcohol has complex health ramifications, both negative and positive.
March 23, 2010 | Journal Article
This article examines how an individual’s decision to cooperate or not cooperate in a game setting can influence subsequent interactions between other players. Little is known about whether cooperative or uncooperative behavior can have a cascading influence on the behavior of people who were not part of the original decision.
March 1, 2010 | Journal Article
In this study, the authors map the social networks of 8,349 adolescents in order to study how sleep behavior spreads how drug use behavior spreads and how a friend's sleep behavior influences one's own drug use.
March 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This paper examines the economic causes and consequences of obesity, the rationales for government intervention, the cost-effectiveness of various policies, and the need for more research funding.
December 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This article presents qualitative findings from the first study of how physicians respond when patients raise the issue of prayer. The study recruited pediatric physicians from thirteen hospitals on U.S. News and World Report?s ?honor roll.?
November 1, 2009 | Journal Article
An analysis suggests that more than one in 10 victims in a 24-hour period asked for but didn't get help.
September 1, 2010 | Book
Unimaginable until the 20th century, the clinical practice of transferring eggs and sperm from body to body is now the basis of a bustling market.
March 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This article examines the relationship between the proximity of fast-food restaurants to schools and children's eating patterns and weight.
April 1, 2006 | Journal Article
The reliance on discretionary spending for American Indian/Alaska Native health care has produced a system that is insufficient and unreliable and is associated with ongoing health disparities. Moreover, the gap between mandatory spending on a Medic ...
April 1, 2006 | Journal Article
The authors examined social risk factors (poverty, minority race/ethnicity, low parental education and not living with both biological parents) to assess whether an accretion of risk factors had a cumulative effect on child health. They also investi ...