COVID-19 and gun violence: keeping unknown shocks and volatility in perspective - Kim DY.
The current study estimates the varying effects of the pandemic on gun violence by social distancing type, fatality, and location. Interrupted time series analyses are used to examine weekly crime data from 2016 to 2020 in New York City. Box-Cox power tran... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 15, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Home and Consumer Product Safety Source Type: news
Intimate partner violence during lockdown: the potent influence of stress and authoritarian beliefs - Bonneterre S, Zerhouni O, Lepage J.
COVID-19 pandemic caused several lockdowns in most countries, enclosing together perpetrators and victims of intimate partner violence (IPV). Our study investigates psychological mechanisms associated with IPV. We supposed that stress provoked by the pande... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 15, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Home and Consumer Product Safety Source Type: news
Navigating multiple pandemics: a critical analysis of the impact of COVID-19 policy responses on gender-based violence services - Mantler T, Wathen CN, Burd C, MacGregor JCD, McLean I, Veenendaal J.
COVID-19 illustrated what governments can do to mobilise against a global threat. Despite the strong governmental response to COVID-19 in Canada, another 'pandemic', gender-based violence (GBV), has been causing grave harm with generally insufficient polic... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 15, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news
Impact of COVID-19 policies on pedestrian traffic and walking patterns - Angel A, Cohen A, Dalyot S, Plaut P.
The spread of COVID-19 pandemic provoked new policies and restrictions, which had an unprecedented impact on urban mobility and traffic on local and global scales. While changes in motorized traffic were investigated and monitored throughout the recent pan... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 15, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Pedestrians and Bicycles Source Type: news
Impact of pandemic restrictions on travel patterns in urban centres: a case-study of Dublin City, Ireland - Farnan R, Bharathi D, O'Brien L, Buckley T, Ghosh B.
The spread of Covid-19 and implementation of various restrictions changed how and why people travel. The present study analyzed three different modes of transportation, to understand the impact of Covid-19 mobility and land-use restrictions on chosen neigh... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 15, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Pedestrians and Bicycles Source Type: news
Moving beyond COVID-19: break or continuity in the urban mobility regime? - Nello-Deakin S, Diaz AB, Roig-Costa O, Miralles-Guasch C, Marquet O.
Upon its irruption in early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic spurred a flurry of reflection on its potential long-term effects on urban mobility. Despite widespread speculation about the likely permanent impacts of the pandemic on urban mobility, few academic a... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 15, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Models Source Type: news
Natural language processing of multi-hospital electronic health records for public health surveillance of suicidality - Bey R, Cohen A, Trebossen V, Dura B, Geoffroy PA, Jean C, Landman B, Petit-Jean T, Chatellier G, Sallah K, Tannier X, Bourmaud A, Delorme R.
There is an urgent need to monitor the mental health of large populations, especially during crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, to timely identify the most at-risk subgroups and to design targeted prevention campaigns. We therefore developed and validat... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 15, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Models Source Type: news
Suicides in the COVID-19 pandemic - are we well informed regarding current risks and future prospects? - Rozanov VA, Semenova NV, Vuks AJ, Freize VV, Isakov VD, Yagmurov OD, Neznanov NG.
BACKGROUND: Suicides are predicted to drop in the acute phase of any crisis that poses a threat to the entire population, though data on this are inconsistent. A pandemic is the most severe global crisis one can imagine. There is an urgent need to identify... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 15, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Models Source Type: news
Gender-based violence, twin pandemic to COVID-19 - Dlamini NJ.
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed and exacerbated existing inequalities within countries and across geographies. It reminded us how the world and its people are interconnected. Gender-based violence (GBV), which is an expression of gender inequality and toxic ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 15, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Risk Factor Prevalence, Injury Occurrence Source Type: news
Inequality and the social construction of urban disaster risk in multi-hazard contexts: the case of Lima, Peru and the COVID-19 pandemic - Lavell A, Ch ávez Eslava A, Barros Salas C, Miranda Sandoval D.
This field note examines the disaster risk construction process in Lima, Peru. More commonly experienced hazard contexts are considered in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic. We provide an empirical analysis based on Lima-wide data and using findings from ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 15, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Disaster Preparedness Source Type: news
Investigating the reciprocity between cognition and behavior in adaptation to large-scale disasters - Tao TJ, Li TW, Liang L, Liu H, Hou WK.
This study reports a six-month cohort study of a population-representative sample of Hong Kong residents (N = 906)... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 15, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Disaster Preparedness Source Type: news
Short-term changes in mental health help-seeking behaviors following exposure to multiple social stressors and a natural disaster - Ryan SC, Sugg MM, Runkle JD, Wertis L, Singh D, Greene S.
In 2020, unprecedented circumstances led to significant mental health consequences. Individuals faced mental health stressors that extended beyond the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, including widespread social unrest following the murder of G... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 15, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Disaster Preparedness Source Type: news
A national survey on the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on school travel in the US. - parents perspective - Musau H, Mwakalonge J, Comert G, Siuhi S.
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has considerably influenced school transportation in the United States (US), with conventional bus use declining and private vehicle use growing. It has increased traffic congestion, reliance on private auto... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 15, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
COVID-19 racism, depressive symptoms, drinking to cope motives, and alcohol use severity among Asian American emerging adults - Keum BTH, Choi AY.
The COVID-19 pandemic has incited widespread anti-Asian racism, which is linked to numerous behavioral health consequences including depressive symptoms. As racism-induced depressive symptoms are linked to coping-related alcohol use and because alcohol-rel... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 15, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Hazardous drinking mediates the relation between externalizing personality and reduced adherence to COVID-19 public health guidelines in university students - Morris V, Baptist-Mohseni N, Kronstein NB, Murphy CB, Yunus F, Thibault T, Livet A, Mahmoud A, P étrin-Pomerleau P, Krank M, Thompson K, Conrod P, Stewart SH, Keough MT.
Using a multigroup path analysis, we examined if hazardous alcohol use mediated the relations between elevated externalizing personality traits (i.e., impulsivity or sensation seeking) and reduced adherence to COVID-19 public health guidelines. We hypothes... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 15, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
