Published Research

For more than thirty years, HHD has conducted social science research to guide all facets of our work. It provides a deep understanding of the relationship between health and socioeconomic factors that make people vulnerable to illness and injury, and contribute to health disparities.

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Evaluation of Criteria for Developing Traffic Safety for Latinos This quantitative study assessed the validity of guidelines that identified four key...	2009
Keep It Up: Development of a Community-Based Health Screening and HIV Prevention Strategy for Reaching Young African American Men This article addresses the challenge of developing HIV prevention interventions that not only...	2009
Developing Instruments to Capture Young People's Perceptions of How School as a Learning Environment Affects Their Well-Being This article describes the Universal Education Foundation's (UEF) activities to create research...	2008
Strategies to Address Mental Health Through Schools with Examples from China This article discusses the key roles that mental health professionals can play in promoting...	2008
Strategies for Implementing Health-Promoting Schools in a Province in China After successful pilot projects in 10 schools, Health and Education officials in the Zhejiang...	2008
Changes in Attitudes, Knowledge and Behavior Associated with Implementing a Comprehensive School Health Program in a Province of China After successful pilot projects, the Zhejiang Province, China, decided to systematically scale...	2008
Urban Young Women’s Experiences of Discrimination and Community Violence and Intimate Partner Violence This paper examines the interrelationships between urban young adult women’s experiences...	2008
Parenting Practices, Parents’ Underestimation of Daughters’ Risks and Alcohol and Sexual Behaviors of Urban Girls PURPOSE: In urban economically distressed communities, high rates of early sexual initiation...	2008
Effect of a Brief Waiting Room Video Intervention on Incident Infection Among Patients Attending Sexually Transmitted Disease Clinics: A Controlled Multicenter Intervention Trial Sexually transmitted disease (STD) prevention remains a public health priority.	2008
Safe in the City: Developing an Effective Video-Based Intervention for STD Clinic Waiting Rooms There is a strong need for inexpensive, easily administered HIV and STD prevention interventions...	2008
Piloting a Searchable Database of Dropout Prevention Programs in Nine Low-Income Urban School Districts in the Northeast and Islands Region Despite evidence that some dropout prevention programs have positive effects, it has not been...	2008
Understanding Differences in HIV Sexual Transmission among Latino and Black Men who have Sex with Men: The Brothers y Hermanos Study HIV sexual transmission risk behaviors were examined among 1,065 Latino and 1,140 black men who...	2008
Suicide Prevention for Older Adults in Residential Communities: Implications for Policy and Practice Whether by choice or necessity, more older adults are now living in congregate residential...	2008
New York City Young Adults’ Psychological Reactions to 9/11: Findings from the Reach for Health Longitudinal Study This research examines psychological distress among 955 economically disadvantaged New York City...	2007
Encouraging Adoption of Science-Based Interventions: Organizational and Community Issues Communities nationwide are under increasing pressure to adopt evidence-based interventions to...	2007
Circumcision Status and HIV Infection Among Black and Latino Men Who Have Sex With Men in 3 US Cities OBJECTIVE: To examine characteristics of circumcised and uncircumcised Latino and black men who...	2007
Saving Sex for Later: Developing a Parent-Child Communication Intervention to Delay Sexual Initiation Among Young Adolescents Young adolescents in communities with high rates of early sexual initiation are at risk of...	2007
Continued Smoking and Smoking Cessation Among Urban Young Adult Women: Findings from the Reach for Health Longitudinal Study We examined smoking and smoking cessation among 538 young inner-city women who had been followed...	2007
Background Papers for World Hunger Series 2006- Hunger and Learning This document is a background paper written for the United Nations WFP World Hunger Series.	2006
Moving Science Into Practice: The Role of Technology Exchange for HIV/STD Prevention This special supplement to AIDS Education and Prevention describes the Centers for Disease...	2006
Heterosexual Risk Behaviors Among Urban Young Adolescents Urban 6th graders (n = 294) participate in a survey assessing early heterosexual risk behaviors...	2006
Rethinking the Bystander Role in School Violence Prevention Public concerns about school shootings and safety draw attention to the role bystanders can play...	2006
Middle School Aggression and Subsequent Intimate Partner Physical Violence This study examined the relationship between middle-school aggressive behaviors and young adults...	2006
Implementing Research-Based Health Promotion Programmes in Schools: Strategies for Capacity Building in The Health Promoting School: International Advances in Theory, Evaluation and Practice As attention to implementing Health Promoting Schools has increased worldwide, donors,...	2005
Skills for Health: Skills-Based Health Education to Teach Life Skills Schools have an important role to play in equipping children with the knowledge, attitudes and...	2005
Early Alcohol Initiation and Subsequent Sexual and Alcohol Risk Behaviors Among Urban Youth OBJECTIVES: We examined relations between early alcohol use and subsequent alcohol and sexual...	2005
Aggressive Behaviors in Early Adolescence and Subsequent Suicidality Among Urban Males and Females PURPOSE: To examine the association of aggressive behaviors during early adolescence with...	2005
Saving Sex for Later: An Evaluation of a Parent Education Intervention CONTEXT: Initiation of sexual intercourse prior to high school is prevalent among inner-city...	2005
Trends in Sexual Risk-Taking Among Urban Young Men Who Have Sex with Men, 1999–2002 As part of an HIV prevention study, 15-25 year-old young men who have sex with men (YMSM) were...	2005
Uniting Three Initiatives on Behalf of Caribbean Youth and Educators: Health and Family Life Education and the Health Promoting School in the Context of PANCAP’s Strategic Framework for HIV/AIDS This article addresses underlying factors of healthy child and adolescent development, and three...	2004
Creating Health-Promoting Schools in China with a Focus on Nutrition This pilot project in Zhejiang Province, China, aimed to improve the nutrition and health status...	2004
Risk and Resiliency Factors Influencing Suicidality Among Urban African American and Latino Youth For decades, suicide rates among minority African American and Latino young people have been...	2004
Pathologic Adaptation to Community Violence Among Inner-City Youth The study tests the thesis of pathologic adaptation for youth exposed to community violence,...	2004
Sexual Behaviors and Risks Among Bisexually- and Gay-Identified Young Latino Men This research compares patterns of sexual behavior and sexual risk of bisexually- and gay-...	2004
Using Peer Recruitment and OraSure to Increase HIV TestingDescribes a community-based pilot study to boost HIV testing in a minority community through social...	2004
Developing an Effective Tool for Teaching Teens About Workplace Safety When the project described in this article began, there were few curricula for teaching teens...	2003
Nutrition as an Entry Point for Health-Promoting Schools: Lessons from China This article focuses on the creation of health-promoting schools (HPS) in China.	2003
Long-Term Influence of Sexual Norms and Attitudes on Timing of Sexual Initiation Among Urban Minority Youth This study assessed whether sexual norms and attitudes expressed during early adolescence by...	2003
Adolescent Suicidality and Adult Support: The Reach for Health Study of Urban Youth OBJECTIVE: To examine suicidality among urban youth and its relationship to patterns of adult...	2003
Building the Capacity of Schools to Improve Health in Critical Issues in Global Health This book is a compendium of chapter articles from a panel of internationally renowned medical...	2002