Publications

The role of negative affectivity in the developmental pathway linking perinatal complications to behavioral and emotional problems in children.

Although temperamental negative affectivity has been identified as a developmental mechanism mediating the link between perinatal risk and internalizing problems in early childhood, its role in predicting broader behavioral and emotional problems across childhood remains understudied. We examined the longitudinal relations among perinatal complications (i.e., prenatal maternal depression and cardiometabolic complications, preterm birth, and low birth weight), children's negative affectivity (Mage = 2.76; SD = 2.32; range = 0.24-12.46 years), and children's internalizing, externalizing, and total problems (Mage = 5.12; SD = 2.63; range = 1.50-16.85 years) in the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) program (N = 3070; 47% females). Results support child negative affectivity as a mechanism in the developmental pathway linking perinatal maternal depressive symptoms and preterm birth to future emotional and behavioral problems, underscoring the importance of early prevention and intervention efforts to promote psychological well-being of at-risk children.

Development and psychopathology

Nutrition Assistance Programs and Pediatric Weight Outcomes: A Systematic Review.

Food insecurity and pediatric obesity have increased concurrently in the U.S., raising questions about the role of Federal Nutrition Assistance Programs (FNAPs) in shaping weight outcomes. This systematic review examined evidence on relationships between FNAP participation and pediatric weight outcomes.

Nutrients

Correction: Social Media as a Platform for Cancer Care Decision-Making Among Women: Internet Survey-Based Study on Trust, Engagement, and Preferences.

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JMIR cancer

A Role for Market Forces in US Health Care-Principles and Guardrails.

JAMA health forum

From Signal to Systems Change: The Convergence of Epidemiology and Implementation Science in Precision Cardiovascular Medicine.

Circulation. Population health and outcomes

Agreement between Surveillance, Epidemiology, End Results (SEER)- and Medicare claims-derived uterine cancer treatment data.

Despite prevalent use of SEER-Medicare data to study uterine cancer treatment patterns and survival, concordance between SEER and Medicare claims has not been a focus of prior research. We assessed agreement between SEER and Medicare claims, predictors of disagreement between sources, and associations between treatment (identified in SEER- vs. Medicare) and survival.

Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology

Pathways to self-reliance: a pilot trial of an integrated livelihoods and psychosocial program for displaced women in Colombia.

Forcibly displaced women face intersecting economic and psychosocial risks, yet few rigorously evaluated programs address both simultaneously. This pilot aimed to examine the preliminary feasibility and effects of the Entrepreneurship School with a Gender Lens (ESGL), an 8-9-month hybrid program combining business training, seed capital, and mental health and psychosocial support, could promote self-reliance among forcibly displaced women who have experienced or are at risk of gender-based violence (GBV).

Conflict and health

Harnessing the power of constitutional rights and legal frameworks to scale up public mental health implementation.

Despite the existence of effective public mental health interventions, global coverage remains low. Only a minority of people with mental disorders receive treatment, far fewer receive interventions to address or prevent the associated impacts of mental disorders, and there is negligible coverage of interventions to prevent mental disorders or promote mental wellbeing and resilience. This implementation failure breaches the right to health and statutory legislation in some countries and results in population-scale preventable suffering, broad societal and individual impacts, and associated economic costs. Various reasons account for public mental health implementation failure, including insufficient policy and implementation according to population needs, and insufficient knowledge, resource, political will, and legal protection regarding the right to mental health. This Health Policy highlights a further reason for implementation failure is that only 12% of constitutions covering 3·5% of the world's population explicitly recognise a constitutional right to mental health, compared with 70% of constitutions recognising a constitutional right to health or physical health. A legal framework that includes explicit constitutional protection for mental health would mean the right to mental health would supersede all other laws. This would thereby provide a basis for legislation and support legal opportunities to challenge, advocate, and improve effective public mental health implementation by different sectors. This framework and associated opportunities would support the scale-up of implementation of cross-sector policy based on the public mental health needs of a population. Such a holistic, coordinated legal approach would support scaled-up coverage of public mental health interventions to treat and prevent mental disorders and promote mental wellbeing and resilience, as well as action to address inequities and protect the rights of those with mental disorders. Improved implementation would result in broad impacts across different sectors and associated economic benefits.

The lancet. Psychiatry

Falls predict faster progression to Alzheimer's dementia.

In preclinical Alzheimer's disease (AD), amyloid accumulates in the brain while individuals remain cognitively unimpaired (Clinical Dementia Rating® [CDR] = 0). Differentiating trajectories of healthy aging and preclinical AD is challenging as both are associated with age-related impairments (e.g., falls).

Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association