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Healthy Neighborhoods Study DUSP

WebThe Healthy Neighborhoods Study (HNS), based in Boston, is the largest resident-driven, participatory action research project in the US about neighborhood change processes, …

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Highlighting the Relationship Between Home and Health

WebIn the issue, DUSP’s Mariana Arcaya and Justin Steil and New York University’s (NYU) Ingrid Gould Ellen offer an overview of the relationship between …

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Emergency Medical Services and Health Equity DUSP

WebEnhancing Multi-Racial Democratic Governance. Tackling the Climate Crisis. The vision for this project is to identify, from the experiences of those on the frontline of health care in …

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Health Impact Assessment Program Development DUSP

WebHealth Impact Assessment is a tool to help gauge the potential ramifications proposed laws, regulations, programs, budgets, policies, or projects may have on health. HIAs often …

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Designing Better Public Health Interventions DUSP

WebHow did health risks associated with acute climate crisis events interact with the global COVID-19 pandemic? More broadly, which populations are most at risk from …

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Health in Unruly Environments DUSP

WebThe editors of the newest volume, Practices of Health in Unruly Environments, are Andrew Binet and Shin Bin Tan, both doctoral candidates at DUSP. …

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Community Ownership for Greater Physical and Mental …

WebA new paper from a collaboration between researchers from DUSP’s Healthy Neighborhoods Study (HNS) and the Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) demonstrates …

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Residential Segregation And Health DUSP

WebIn a new brief for Health Affairs, Justin Steil and Mariana Arcaya outline the history of residential segregation, review some of the extensive literature documenting …

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Showcasing MIT's Human Health-Related Research DUSP

Web“MIT’s work to understand and improve human health spans decades and covers the Institute,” said W. Eric L. Grimson PhD ’80, at MIT Better World (Health), a …

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Healthy Communities Through Housing Justice DUSP

WebHousing conditions are broadly understood to affect health, with research linking cost, crowding, unit quality, homelessness, eviction, foreclosure and other individual-level …

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Documenting the Inequity of Air Pollution Health Impacts

WebWhen one thinks of air pollution’s impact on public health, there is a popular misconception of a fairly evenly distributed effect across a geographic region. High resolution data on …

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Health, Wealth, and Cities DUSP

WebThe health issues are easier to overlook, partly because they are less visible. We don’t necessarily see the factors that create health inequities, such as particulates …

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Indoor Air Quality's Impact on Health and Productivity DUSP

WebCharacteristics of the indoor environmental quality directly impact humans’ ability to lead healthy and productive lives. We estimated the effects of changes in indoor air quality …

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WebProfessor of Urban Planning and Public Health. Mariana Arcaya is a social epidemiologist and urban planner whose work explores dynamic relationships between …

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MIT Global Health & Medical Humanities Initiative DUSP

WebHealth. Livelihoods. This Initiative examines illness and disease from multiple perspectives, not only as a matter of individual physiology. This means also thinking through the …

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Safeguarding Public Health with Eviction Moratoria DUSP

WebEviction moratoriums have been used to protect renters in danger of losing their housing at a time of economic strain caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. The study …

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Social Impact Investing for Health DUSP

WebThe Healthy Neighborhoods Equity Fund uses a “Quadruple Bottom Line” that considers community, environmental, and health impacts in addition to financial returns to select …

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Quantifying the Health Benefits of Urban Climate Mitigation …

Webin health outcomes associated with carbon mitigation actions. Health impact assessment is an increasingly common tool in the analysis of current health burdens, as well as health …

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Extreme Temperatures and Emotional Well-Being DUSP

WebThese measures taken along with future studies could help uncover, “emotional precursors to the more serious impacts of heat exposure upon mental health,” …

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Utilizing Urban Science to Better Understand Air Pollution Exposure

WebPublished. Across numerous scientific studies, exposure to fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) has been linked with a variety of health complications such as premature …

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Development of a Typology of Economic Place for Explaining

WebThe first is to broaden the lens on the types of economic variables that shape health factors and outcomes. While commonly-used measures like unemployment are vital, they …

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Developing a Guide to Urban Planning Interventions DUSP

WebOur paper offers a pathway to utilize the strengths of planning to design interventions to advance health equity and construct a more robust metric for evaluating …

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