The MINT Program: A Mixed-Method Approach to Identifying Nature-Based Resources to Promote Adolescent Parent Social and Psychological Well-Being.

Background: Adolescent parents are at an increased risk for loneliness and mental health challenges compared to childless peers. Nature-based interventions are shown to promote social connectedness.

Aim: To identify elements of a nature-based intervention to reduce loneliness and foster nature connection among pregnant and parenting adolescents.

Using geographic effect measure modification to examine socioeconomic-related surface temperature disparities in New York City.

Background: Lower socioeconomic (SES) communities are more likely to be situated in urban heat islands and have higher heat exposures than their higher SES counterparts, and this inequality is expected to intensify due to climate change.

Objectives: To examine the relationship between surface temperatures and SES in New York City (NYC) by employing a novel analytical approach. Through incorporating modifiable features, this study aims to identify potential locations where mitigation interventions can be implemented to reduce heat disparities associated with SES.

Sex-Specific Depressive Symptom Trajectories Among Adolescents in Los Angeles County, 2013 to 2017.

Objective: After remaining stable for many years, the prevalence of depression among adolescents increased over the past decade, particularly among girls. In this study, we used longitudinal data from a cohort of high school students to characterize sex-specific trajectories of depressive symptoms during this period of increasing prevalence and widening gender gap in adolescent depression.

Method: Using data from the Health and Happiness Cohort, a longitudinal 8-wave study of high school students residing in Los Angeles County from 2013 to 2017 (N = 3,393), we conducted a multiple-group, latent class growth analysis by sex to differentiate developmental trajectories in depressive symptoms scores measured by the Center for Epidemiological Studies- Depression (CES-D) scale (range, 0-60).

Examining racial and ethnic heat exposure disparities in New York City (NYC) across different spatial and political scales through geographic effect measure modification.

Structural racism in the United States has resulted in neighborhoods with higher proportions of non-Hispanic Black (Black) or Hispanic/Latine residents having more features that intensify, and less that cool, the local-heat environment. This study identifies areas of New York City (NYC) where racial/ethnic heat exposure disparities are concentrated. We analyzed data from the 2013-2017 American Community Survey, U.

The CHANGE (Climate Health ANalysis Grading Evaluation) tool for weight of evidence reviews on climate change and health research.

Background: Climate change has been identified as one of the biggest threats to human health. Despite this claim, there are no standardized tools that assess the rigor of published literature for use in weight of evidence (WOE) reviews. Standardized assessment tools are essential for creating clear and comparable WOE reviews.

Environmental health perceptions of urban youth from low-income communities: A qualitative photovoice study and framework.

Background: Children are amongst the most susceptible groups to environmental exposures, for both immediate and life-course health outcomes. Despite their increased susceptibility, children's knowledge, experiences and voices are understudied. A deeper understanding of children's environmental health perceptions has the potential to better inform policy, develop targeted interventions and improve public health outcomes.

Rationale, Feasibility, and Acceptability of the Meeting in Nature Together (MINT) Program: A Novel Nature-Based Social Intervention for Loneliness Reduction with Teen Parents and Their Peers.

Recently, there has been an increase in feelings of loneliness and mental health conditions among adolescents. Within this population, parenting teens are at an increased risk for these conditions. Outdoor experiences are shown to be an antidote to loneliness and a way to promote social connectedness by amplifying the processes for supporting social relationships.

Growing up green: a systematic review of the influence of greenspace on youth development and health outcomes.

Youth growing up in places with more greenspaces have better developmental outcomes. The literature on greenspace and youth development is largely cross-sectional, thus limited in terms of measuring development and establishing causal inference. We conducted a systematic review of prospective, longitudinal studies measuring the association between greenspace exposure and youth development outcomes measured between ages two and eighteen.

Overflowing Disparities: Examining the Availability of Litter Bins in New York City.

In the 1980s, activists' concerns about the disproportionate placements of landfills in low-income communities ignited the environmental justice movement. Today, similar issues of environmental injustice-the limited availability of litter bins across New York City (NYC) neighborhoods-remain unresolved. This study examines the association between NYC neighborhood income and litter bin availability.

The COVID-19 Pandemic as a Threat Multiplier for Childhood Health Disparities: Evidence from St. Louis, MO.

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted socioeconomic and racial health disparities in the USA. In this study, we examined the COVID-19 pandemic as a threat multiplier for childhood health disparities by evaluating health behavior changes among urban St. Louis, MO, children (ages 6-14) during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Place-based interventions and the epidemiology of violence prevention.

Purpose Of Review: Violence is a leading cause of death, disability, and health inequity in the United States. This review summarizes the scientific literature on place-based interventions and violence, describes study design challenges, and suggests future directions for this group of interventions.

Recent Findings: Violence prevention strategies commonly target high-risk individuals, but recent research has found that place-based interventions are practical, sustainable, and high-impact opportunities that benefit communities at large.

The impact of nature-based education on health-related quality of life among low-income youth: results from an intervention study.

Background: Nature experiences have been shown to promote physical, emotional, mental and overall health. However, low-income youth often face inequities in access to nature. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of a 15-week nature-based education (NBE) intervention on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of low-income youth.

An Analysis of the Educational and Health-Related Benefits of Nature-Based Environmental Education in Low-Income Black and Hispanic Children.

Low-income and non-white children experience disparities in health, education, and access to nature. These health disparities are often associated and exacerbated by inequities in the U.S.

Focused Cardiac Ultrasound by Nurses in Rural Vietnam.

Background: Multiple studies investigating the use of focused cardiac ultrasound (FCU) in lower and middle-income countries and in medically underserved areas of the United States have demonstrated utility in echocardiographic screening algorithms performed by a variety of operators at different levels of training. No study to date has employed previously untrained nurses in a medically underserved setting to identify older adults with cardiac disorders. The aim of this study was to assess the accuracy of nurse-performed FCU to screen adult subjects at a village health center in Vietnam.

Examining Public Perceptions about Lead in School Drinking Water: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Twitter Response to an Environmental Health Hazard.

Exposure to lead has long been a community health concern in St. Louis, Missouri. The objective of this study was to examine public response to reports of elevated lead levels in school drinking water in St.

Arthroscopic evaluation and treatment of the symptomatic previously operated knee.

One hundred seventy-six knees in 172 consecutive patients with persistent or recurrent symptoms following a previous operative procedure were reevaluated and treated arthroscopically. Most knees had multiple findings, which are described. On the basis of these findings, four categories were defined: (a) the degenerative group; (b) the new meniscal tear group; (c) the fibroarthrosis group; (d) the minor problems group.

Treatment of the anterior cruciate ligament-absent knee with associated meniscal tears. Instrumented testing and clinical evaluation of two patient groups.

The UCLA instrumented clinical testing apparatus was used to measure postoperative stiffness and laxity for two groups of patients with documented chronic absence of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and associated meniscal tears. Group 1 consisted of 76 patients (average age, 25 years) who had undergone anterior cruciate substitution using the torn meniscus, and a second group of 34 patients (average age, 31 years) who had partial meniscectomy alone without ACL substitution. Subjective and objective evaluations were significantly higher and symptoms of pain and buckling significantly lower in the substitution group.

Motion-limiting arthrofibrosis of the knee: the role of arthroscopic management.

With the advent of effective arthroscopic methods of intra-articular surgery, it has become possible to lyse intra-articular adhesions under direct vision using arthroscopic techniques. This article reviews the present indications for this procedure, the techniques, the methods of after-care, and the reported results. Previous studies and an additional series of patients are reviewed.

Magill versus Mallinckrodt tracheal tubes. A comparative study of postoperative sore throat.

An attempt to assess the relative merits of Magill and Mallinckrodt tracheal tubes is described. One hundred patients scheduled for routine gynaecological operations were randomly allocated to one of two groups of 50; in one, Magill red rubber tubes were used and in the other, Mallinckrodt tubes. The incidence and severity of postoperative sore throat were assessed on the day after operation.

The medial patellar plica syndrome.

A retrospective review of all patients diagnosed at arthroscopy as having a medial patellar plica with no other intraarticular pathology was conducted. Characteristic clinical findings, including pseudolocking, were identified. The clinical response of 68 patients (78 knees) to shelf resection was noted at 3 and 6 months.

Arthroscopic treatment of postoperative knee fibroarthrosis.

Twenty-four patients with severely limited knee motion following open knee surgery were treated by percutaneous release of adhesions under arthroscopic control. The mean interval between the last open surgical procedure and our treatment was 2.75 years (range, 3 months-27 years).

The bucket handle meniscal tear. A technique using two incisions.

The bucket handle tear is a common meniscal tear in both the medial and lateral menisci, occurring in a relatively young age group, and with a high incidence of associated intra-articular pathology. Treatment of the tear consists of removal of the mobile fragment leaving a remaining meniscal rim that is both stable and smoothly contoured. This can be accomplished percutaneously under arthroscopic visualization.