Utilizing residential histories to assess environmental exposure and socioeconomic status over the life course among mesothelioma patients.

Background: Exposure misclassification based solely on the address at cancer diagnosis has been widely recognized though not commonly assessed.

Methods: We linked 1,015 mesothelioma cases diagnosed during 2011-2015 from the New York State Cancer Registry to inpatient claims and LexisNexis administrative data and constructed residential histories. Percentile ranking of exposure to ambient air toxics and socioeconomic status (SES) were based on the National Air Toxic Assessment and United States Census data, respectively.

Utilizing Residential History to Examine Heterogeneous Exposure Trajectories: A Latent Class Mixed Modeling Approach Applied to Mesothelioma Patients.

Background: Life-course exposure assessment, as opposed to a one-time snapshot assessment based on the address at cancer diagnosis, has become increasingly possible with available cancer patients' residential history data. To demonstrate a novel application of residential history data, we examined the heterogeneous trajectories of the nonasbestos air toxic exposures among mesothelioma patients, and compared the patients' residential locations with the spatiotemporal clusters estimated from the National Air Toxic Assessment (NATA) data.

Methods: Patients' residential histories were obtained by linking mesothelioma cases diagnosed during 2011-2015 in the New York State (NYS) Cancer Registry to LexisNexis administrative data and inpatient claims data.

Estimating uncertainty in a socioeconomic index derived from the American community survey.

Socioeconomic indexes are widely used in public health to facilitate neighborhood-scale analyses. Although they are calculated with high levels of precision, they are rarely reported with accompanying measures of uncertainty (e.g.

Predictors of Survival among Male and Female Patients with Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma: A Random Survival Forest Analysis of Data from the 2000-2017 Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program.

Background: Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is a rare and aggressive malignancy with a dismal prognosis. We aimed to identify predictors of survival among male and female MPM patients in the United States.

Methods: We identified MPM cases reported by 18 cancer registries in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program (2000-2017).

Can Oncology Practice Claims Data Replace Physician Reporting to State Cancer Registries?

Background: Recently, the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program facilitated the linkage of claims data from oncology practices to cancer registry data. Since physician reporting places a burden on oncology practices and presents a challenge for cancer registries, the question arises as to whether claims data can replace physician reporting. Using data reported to the New York State Cancer Registry, we evaluated the information that would be lost if oncology practices were to cease reporting abstracted data to the registry.

A comparison of two neighborhood-level socioeconomic indexes in the United States.

socioeconomic indexes that capture information about wealth, education, employment, and housing are in wide use in public health. Here we compare the widely used Area Deprivation Index (ADI) to the Yost index. Though they are derived largely from the same data, there are substantial differences between the two.

Residential mobility among adult cancer survivors in the United States.

Background: While residential mobility affects people's health, the dynamic of neighborhood tenure and its associated factors among cancer patients and survivors have not been studied in detail. This cross-sectional study aimed to identify sociodemographic factors associated with neighborhood tenure and relocation after the first cancer diagnosis among U.S.

Implementing a WIC-Based Intervention to Promote Exclusive Breastfeeding: Challenges, Facilitators, and Adaptive Strategies.

Objective: Understand factors that contributed to the implementation of a successful multicomponent intervention to promote exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) within Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Woman, Infants, and Children (WIC) clinics.

Design: Qualitative study of staff implementers' experiences using implementation status reports, facilitated group discussion immediately after implementation, and WIC administrative data.

Setting: WIC staff from 12 clinics participated in an EBF Learning Community composed of 8 intervention trainings and ongoing support from trainers and peers.

Outcome Evaluation of the You Can Do It Initiative to Promote Exclusive Breastfeeding Among Women Enrolled in the New York State WIC Program by Race/Ethnicity.

Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of You Can Do It at improving exclusive breastfeeding (BF) among New York State women enrolled in Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC).

Design: Quasi-experimental study, September, 2013 through February, 2016.

Setting: Multicomponent intervention paired with a yearlong learning community in 12 clinics.

Trends in Breastfeeding Among Infants Enrolled in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children - New York, 2002-2015.

Breastfeeding is widely accepted as the optimal method of infant feeding (1,2). New York Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) has prioritized the promotion of breastfeeding. To assess breastfeeding trends among New York WIC infants, indicators for measuring breastfeeding practices reported by the New York Pediatric Nutrition Surveillance System (PedNSS) during 2002-2015 were examined.

Heterogeneity identified at birth and blood pressure in adulthood.

Objective: In the developmental programming literature, the association of birth weight and blood pressure later in life is modest at best. This article reexamines this issue using Covariate Density Defined mixture of regressions (CDDmr) to determine if a latent variable, based on birth weight, and known to influence infant mortality, provides a stronger indicator of developmental programming.

Methods: CDDmr identifies two latent components in the birth weight distribution, generally interpreted in the infant mortality literature as "compromised" and "normal" fetal development.