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Health care utilization among women of reproductive age living in public housing: Associations across six public housing sites in San Francisco
Headen, Irene E., Leslie Dubbin, Alison J. Canchola, Ellen Kersten, and Irene H. Yen. 2022. “Health Care Utilization Among Women of Reproductive Age Living in Public Housing: Associations across Six Public Housing Sites in San Francisco”. Preventive Medicine Reports 27.
Changes in food insecurity and smoking status over time: Analysis of the 2003 and 2015 panel study of income dynamics
Kim-Mozeleski, Jin E., Hilary K. Seligman, Irene H. Yen, Susan J. Shaw, David R. Buchanan, and Janice Y. Tsoh. 2018. “Changes in Food Insecurity and Smoking Status over Time: Analysis of the 2003 and 2015 Panel Study of Income Dynamics”. American Journal of Health Promotion 33 (5): 698-707.
Racial/ethnic differences in associations between neighborhood social cohesion and meeting physical activity guidelines, United States, 2013-2014
Yi, Stella S, Chau Trinh-Shevrin, Irene H Yen, and Simona C Kwon. 2016. “Racial/Ethnic Differences in Associations Between Neighborhood Social Cohesion and Meeting Physical Activity Guidelines, United States, 2013-2014”. Preventing Chronic Disease 13: E165.
Reproducibility and implementation of a rapid, community-based COVID-19 "test and respond" model in low-income, majority-Latino communities in Northern California
Chamie, Gabriel, Patric Prado, Yolanda Oviedo, Tatiana Vizcaíno, Carina Arechiga, Kara Marson, Omar Carrera, et al. 2022. “Reproducibility and Implementation of a Rapid, Community-Based COVID-19 ‘test and Respond’ Model in Low-Income, Majority-Latino Communities in Northern California”. PLos One 17 (10).
"Housing is health care": Treating homelessness in safety-net hospitals
Managing the "hot spots": Health care, policing, and the goverment of poverty in the US
Fleming, Mark D., Janet K. Shim, Irene Yen, Leslie Dubbin, Ariana Thompson-Lastad, Christoph Hanssmann, and Nancy J. Burke. 2021. “Managing the ‘hot Spots’: Health Care, Policing, and the Goverment of Poverty in the US”. American Ethnologist, 1-15.
How neighborhoods influence health: Lessons to be learned from the application of political ecology
Chitewere, Tendai, Janet K. Shim, Judith C. Barker, and Irene H. Yen. 2017. “How Neighborhoods Influence Health: Lessons to Be Learned from the Application of Political Ecology”. Health & Place 45: 117-23.
Hello, I'm Dr. Irene Yen
I'm the Principal Investigator and Director of the Lab. I'm a social epidemiologist, a public health professor at the University of California Merced and a Robert Wood Johnson Interdisciplinary Research Leadership fellow. My research is currently centered on the question of how place influences...
Our current research on housing, opportunity, place, and education
Educational Trajectories and Health This is a National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded study investigating education trajectories, the paths people take to complete their education, how it differs by sex, race/ethnicity, and family circumstances, and what the effect of different trajectories is on...