Economic Competition and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Sentencing: A Test of Economic Threat Perspective by Christopher D’Amato, Bryan Holmes, Ben Feldmeyer

“…To achieve this goal, we use case-level data from the Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines Commission (<i>N</i> = 122,666) and county-level data from the United States Census Bureau. Multilevel regression models reveal partial but limited support for economic threat. …”
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Population-based Projections of Ankle Arthrodeses by Christopher Gross MD, Justin Rabinowitz MD, Elizabeth Durante BA, BS

“…Methods: National Inpatient Sample (NIS) data from 1997-2014 was used to identify trends in the utilization of ankle arthrodesis. United States Census Bureau data from 1997-2014 was used to identify historical population data and future population estimates. …”
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COVID-19 infection differences among people with disabilities by Carli Friedman

“…Methods: To do so, we analyzed secondary United States Census Bureau data from 444,422 people (52,890 adults with disabilities and 391,532 adults without disabilities) about COVID-19 diagnosis, vaccination, and sociodemographics. …”
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Environmental and social-demographic predictors of the southern house mosquito Culex quinquefasciatus in New Orleans, Louisiana by Imelda K. Moise, Claudia Riegel, Ephantus J. Muturi

“…Socio-demographic predictors were obtained from the United States Census Bureau, 2005–2009 American Community Survey and the City of New Orleans Department of Code Enforcement. …”
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Factors associated with adverse mental health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic by S.H. Choi, S. Kim

“…Study design: This study employed publicly available data from the Household Pulse Survey, conducted by the United States Census Bureau to examine the social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on American households. …”
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Research and prediction of opioid crisis based on BP neural network and Markov chain by Wanchun Fan, Yan Jiang, Songyang Huang, Weiguo Liu

“…To study the social and economic data and the relationship between opioid drug abuse situation, this paper uses Grey Relation Analysis to analyze the identification and counting of synthetic opioids and heroin provided by NFLIS and the data related to socioeconomic factors provided by the United States Census Bureau. After that, the orderly clustering is used to introduce the corresponding level. …”
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Diversity of United States medical students by region compared to US census data by Smith MM, Rose SH, Schroeder DR, Long TR

“…Patients and methods: Published race data from the United States Census Bureau (USCB) 2010 census and the 2011 Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) allopathic medical school application and enrollment by race and ethnicity survey were analyzed and compared. …”
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Are associations between psychosocial stressors and incident lung cancer attributable to smoking? by Carolyn E Behrendt, Candace M Cosgrove, Norman J Johnson, Sean F Altekruse

“…<h4>Methods</h4>Subjects were at least 25 years old and without lung cancer at enrollment in the United States Census Bureau's National Longitudinal Mortality Survey in 1995-2008. …”
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Neighborhood socioeconomic status and length of stay after congenital heart disease surgery by Sudhir Vashist, Brandon S. Dudeck, Beth Sherfy, Geoffrey L. Rosenthal, Alicia H. Chaves

“…A neighborhood SES score was calculated for each patient using data from the United States Census Bureau and patients were grouped by high vs. low SES neighborhoods. …”
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A Review of the 2016-2017 Flu Season: Guidelines, Costs, and Barriers by Simone Chinnis, James Sterrett, Richetta Deas, Whitney Smith, Ruth Conner

“…The under-vaccination of patients with the influenza vaccine is a profound issue, especially in rural communities, which is defined as locations populated by fewer than 50,000 people (United States Census Bureau [U.S. Census Bureau], 2015).  In West Virginia, for example, a state where 38% of the population resides in rural areas, people who were insured by Medicare and whose insurance records did not manifest that they received the influenza vaccine, possessed a 170% increased risk of death during the influenza season in comparison to those who did receive the influenza vaccine (Schade & McCombs, 2000).  …”
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Learning and Teaching Latino Mental Health, Social Justice and Recovery to Visiting Students: A Pilot Study by Andrea Patricia Mendiola Iparraguirre, Maria Restrepo-Toro, Natalia Gomez, Mark Costa, Esperanza Diaz

“…Almost 18% of the U.S. population is estimated to be Hispanic (United States Census Bureau, 2019), and of that, 15% had a diagnosable mental illness in the past year (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2020); still, Latinos receive half as often mental health services compared to Caucasians (Office of Mental Health, 2020). …”
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Hyperlocal disparities in breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screening: An ecological study of social vulnerability in Miami-Dade county by Kilan C. Ashad-Bishop, Jordan A. Baeker Bispo, Lauren Nahodyl, Raymond R. Balise, Erin K. Kobetz, Zinzi D. Bailey

“…This study used census tract-level data from the United States Census Bureau and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to characterize Miami-Dade County census tracts (n = 492) into social vulnerability clusters and assess their associated breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screening participation rates. …”
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Race Matters: Analyzing the relationship between colorectal cancer mortality rates and various factors within respective racial groups by Emma eVeach, Ismael eXique, Jada eJohnson, Jessica eLyle, Isreal eAlmodovar, Kimberly eSellers, Calandra Tate Moore, Monica Christine Jackson

“…This research linked CRC mortality data obtained from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) with data from the United States Census Bureau, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the National Solar Radiation Database to visually examine geographic and racial/ethnic differences, and develop a spatial regression model that adjusted for several factors that may attribute to health disparities among ethnic/racial groups. …”
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The incidence of medium vessel occlusions: a population-based study by Michael Liu, Deena Nasr, Waleed Brinjikji

“…Census data for Olmsted County was obtained from the United States Census Bureau from the year 2020.ResultsA total of 1,718 patients were screened for the study, 77 patients fulfilled inclusion criteria to be included in the study. …”
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The association between statewide vaping prevalence and COVID-19 by Dongmei Li, Daniel P. Croft, Deborah J. Ossip, Zidian Xie

“…However, whether vapers are more susceptible to COVID-19 is unknown.Using integrated data in each US state from the 2018 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), United States Census Bureau and the 1Point3Acres.com website, generalized estimating equation (GEE) models with negative binomial distribution assumption and log link functions were used to examine the association of statewide e-cigarette use prevalence with number of COVID-19 cases and deaths in the US on a state level from January 21, 2020 to April 25, 2020.The weighted proportion of vapers who used e-cigarettes every day or some days ranged from 2.86% to 6.42% for US states. …”
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Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Patient Experiences in the United States: 4-Year Content Analysis of Twitter by Hswen, Yulin, Hawkins, Jared B, Sewalk, Kara, Tuli, Gaurav, Williams, David R, Viswanath, K, Subramanian, S V, Brownstein, John S

“…ResultsRacial and ethnic distribution of users on Twitter was highly correlated with population estimates from the United States Census Bureau’s 5-year survey from 2016 (r2=0.99; P<.001). …”
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LSTM-based recurrent neural network provides effective short term flu forecasting by Alfred B. Amendolara, David Sant, Horacio G. Rotstein, Eric Fortune

“…Methods Data were collected from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Center for Environmental Information (NCEI), and the United States Census Bureau. The model was initially built in Python using the Keras API and tuned manually. …”
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Encephalitis hospitalization rates and inpatient mortality in the United States, 2000-2010. by Benjamin P George, Eric B Schneider, Arun Venkatesan

“…Hospitalization rates were calculated using population-level estimates of disease from the NIS and population estimates from the United States Census Bureau. Adjusted odds of mortality were calculated for patients included in the study.…”
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Food security among SNAP participants 2019 to 2021: a cross-sectional analysis of current population survey food security supplement data by Patrick J. Brady, Lisa Harnack, Rachel Widome, Kaitlyn M. Berry, Sruthi Valluri

“…The Current Population Survey data were collected by the United States Census Bureau and Department of Agriculture. Our sample included 5,245 SNAP-participating households. …”
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Risk factors for pediatric intoxications in the prehospital setting. A geospatial survey by Calvin Lukas Kienbacher, Calvin Lukas Kienbacher, Guixing Wei, Jason M. Rhodes, Harald Herkner, Dominik Roth, Kenneth A. Williams, Kenneth A. Williams

“…Prehospital data were joined with information from the United States Census Bureau. The census tracts’ case counts and MHI were examined using Poisson regression. …”
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