Rapid infant weight gain and early childhood obesity in low-income Latinos and non-Latinos.

Objective: To examine the growth of infants and toddlers in a population that is both under-represented in the literature and at high risk for childhood obesity.

Design: Weight and height measurements were extracted from all visits for a sample of 0-4-year-old, low-income, Latino and non-Latino patients of an urban, academic general paediatric practice. Early growth was characterized as change in weight-for-length Z-score (WLZ) from birth to 3 years.

Intergenerational Social Networks and Health Behaviors Among Children Living in Public Housing.

Objectives: In a survey of families living in public housing, we investigated whether caretakers' social networks are linked with children's health status.

Methods: In 2011, 209 children and their caretakers living in public housing in suburban Montgomery County, Maryland, were surveyed regarding their health and social networks. We used logistic regression models to examine the associations between the perceived health composition of caretaker social networks and corresponding child health characteristics (e.

Neighborhood alcohol outlets and the association with violent crime in one mid-Atlantic City: the implications for zoning policy.

Violent crime such as homicide causes significant excess morbidity and mortality in US urban areas. A health impact assessment (HIA) identified zoning policy related to alcohol outlets as one way to decrease violent crime. The objectives were to determine the relationship between alcohol outlets including off-premise alcohol outlets and violent crime in one urban area to provide local public health evidence to inform a zoning code rewrite.