Publications by authors named "George Dewey"
Punishment serves as a balancing force that dissuades people from acting selfishly, which complements cooperation as an essential characteristic for the prosperity of human societies. Past studies using economic games with two options (cooperation and defection) reported that cooperation decisions are generally faster than defection decisions and that time pressure possibly induces human players to be more intuitive and thus cooperative. However, it is unclear where punishment decisions sit on this time spectrum.
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- * Research into molecular subtypes of diseases like breast cancer and Alzheimer's is revealing how social factors, including race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status, impact disease development and heterogeneous patterns.
- * The article emphasizes the potential for future social MPE studies, leveraging advanced technologies to improve personalized medicine and public health strategies in addressing health disparities.
Network interventions for managing the COVID-19 pandemic and sustaining economy.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
December 2020
Sustaining economic activities while curbing the number of new coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases until effective vaccines or treatments become available is a major public health and policy challenge. In this paper, we use agent-based simulations of a network-based susceptible-exposed-infectious-recovered (SEIR) model to investigate two network intervention strategies for mitigating the spread of transmission while maintaining economic activities. In the simulations, we assume that people engage in group activities in multiple sectors (e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFContext: Healthy vending machine policies are viewed as a promising strategy for combating the growing obesity epidemic in the United States. Few studies have evaluated the short- and intermediate-term outcomes of healthy vending policies, especially for interventions that require 100% healthy products to be stocked.
Objective: To evaluate the potential impact of a 100% healthy vending machine nutrition policy.
Introduction: In 2010, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health launched a local sodium-reduction initiative to address the rising prevalence of high blood pressure (hypertension) and related cardiovascular conditions in the population. To inform this effort, we evaluated self-reported knowledge and health behaviors related to sodium intake among Los Angeles County residents.
Methods: We administered 3 cross-sectional Internet panel surveys on knowledge about dietary sodium to a sample of Los Angeles County adults, at intervals from December 2014 through August 2016.