Courtney S Thomas Tobin, Ángela Gutiérrez, Heather R Farmer, Christy L Erving, Taylor W Hargrove
{"title":"Intersectional Approaches to Minority Aging Research.","authors":"Courtney S Thomas Tobin, Ángela Gutiérrez, Heather R Farmer, Christy L Erving, Taylor W Hargrove","doi":"10.1007/s40471-022-00317-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40471-022-00317-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose of review: </strong>Growing racial/ethnic diversity among America's older adults necessitates additional research specifically focused on health and well-being among aging minoritized populations. Although Black and Latinx adults in the USA tend to face worse health outcomes as they age, substantial evidence points to unexpected health patterns (e.g., the race paradox in mental health, the Latino health paradox) that challenge our understanding of health and aging among these populations. In this review, we demonstrate the value of intersectionality theory for clarifying these health patterns and highlight the ways that intersectionality has been applied to minority aging research. To advance the field, we also make several recommendations for incorporating intersectional approaches in future scholarship on minority aging.</p><p><strong>Recent findings: </strong>Scholars have applied intersectional approaches to health and aging to unravel how social statuses and social conditions, such as race, ethnicity, gender, nativity, incarceration history, geographic region, and age, produce distinct shared experiences that shape health trajectories through multiple mechanisms.</p><p><strong>Summary: </strong>We highlight common intersectional approaches used in minority aging research and underscore the value of this perspective for elucidating the complex, and often unexpected, health patterns of aging minoritized populations. We identify several key lessons and propose recommendations to advance scholarship on minority aging.</p>","PeriodicalId":48527,"journal":{"name":"Current Epidemiology Reports","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9830125/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9382786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Implications of Intergenerational Relationships for Minority Aging: a Review of Recent Literature.","authors":"Rodlescia S Sneed, Athena C Y Chan","doi":"10.1007/s40471-023-00319-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40471-023-00319-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose of review: </strong>This study aims to understand how intergenerational relationships impact minority aging in the USA. We reviewed studies published in the last 5 years that examine both familial and non-familial intergenerational relationships.</p><p><strong>Recent findings: </strong>Intergenerational relationships can have positive and negative implications for minority aging. Minority older adults benefit most from these relationships when they increase social interaction and/or offer social support by reducing acculturative stress, providing emotional closeness, or increasing access to tangible resources. At the same time, these relationships can be sources of strain as they lead to burden among already disadvantaged groups.</p><p><strong>Summary: </strong>Future studies should explore the impact of intergenerational relations among more diverse subgroups of older adults and identify mechanisms linking intergenerational relationships to health-related outcomes among minority older adults. Further, longitudinal cohort studies and randomized trials are needed to test mechanisms and evaluate the effectiveness of promising intergenerational interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":48527,"journal":{"name":"Current Epidemiology Reports","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9909158/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9418448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Approaches to Measuring Cannabis Use in Injury Research: Beyond Drug Detection","authors":"A. Brooks-Russell, Richard Holdman, J. Whitehill","doi":"10.1007/s40471-022-00314-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40471-022-00314-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48527,"journal":{"name":"Current Epidemiology Reports","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89563044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Stephen J Mooney, Andrew G Rundle, Christopher N Morrison
{"title":"Registry Data in Injury Research: Study Designs and Interpretation.","authors":"Stephen J Mooney, Andrew G Rundle, Christopher N Morrison","doi":"10.1007/s40471-022-00311-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40471-022-00311-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose of review: </strong>Injury data is frequently captured in registries that form a census of 100% of known cases that meet specified inclusion criteria. These data are routinely used in injury research with a variety of study designs. We reviewed study designs commonly used with data extracted from injury registries and evaluated the advantages and disadvantages of each design type.</p><p><strong>Recent findings: </strong>Registry data are suited to 5 major design types: (1) Description, (2) Ecologic (with Ecologic Cohort as a particularly informative sub-type), (3) Case-control (with location-based and culpability studies as salient subtypes), (4) Case-only (including case-case and case-crossover subtypes), and (5) Outcomes.</p><p><strong>Summary: </strong>Registries are an important resource for injury research. Investigators considering use of a registry should be aware of the advantages and disadvantages of available study designs.</p>","PeriodicalId":48527,"journal":{"name":"Current Epidemiology Reports","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9912303/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10705025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Andrew G Rundle, Michael D M Bader, Charles C Branas, Gina S Lovasi, Stephen J Mooney, Christopher N Morrison, Kathryn M Neckerman
{"title":"Causal Inference with Case-Only Studies in Injury Epidemiology Research.","authors":"Andrew G Rundle, Michael D M Bader, Charles C Branas, Gina S Lovasi, Stephen J Mooney, Christopher N Morrison, Kathryn M Neckerman","doi":"10.1007/s40471-022-00306-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40471-022-00306-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose of review: </strong>We review the application and limitations of two implementations of the \"case-only design\" in injury epidemiology with example analyses of Fatality Analysis Reporting System data.</p><p><strong>Recent findings: </strong>The term \"case-only design\" covers a variety of epidemiologic designs; here, two implementations of the design are reviewed: (1) studies to uncover etiological heterogeneity and (2) studies to measure exposure effect modification. These two designs produce results that require different interpretations and rely upon different assumptions. The key assumption of case-only designs for exposure effect modification, the more commonly used of the two designs, does not commonly hold for injuries and so results from studies using this design cannot be interpreted. Case-only designs to identify etiological heterogeneity in injury risk are interpretable but only when the case-series is conceptualized as arising from an underlying cohort.</p><p><strong>Summary: </strong>The results of studies using case-only designs are commonly misinterpreted in the injury literature.</p>","PeriodicalId":48527,"journal":{"name":"Current Epidemiology Reports","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10161782/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9443156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. Carrigan, B. Bradbury, M. Brookhart, W. Capra, Victoria Chia, K. Rothman, K. Sarsour, Michael D. Taylor, Jefferey S. Brown
{"title":"External Comparator Groups Derived from Real-world Data Used in Support of Regulatory Decision Making: Use Cases and Challenges","authors":"G. Carrigan, B. Bradbury, M. Brookhart, W. Capra, Victoria Chia, K. Rothman, K. Sarsour, Michael D. Taylor, Jefferey S. Brown","doi":"10.1007/s40471-022-00305-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40471-022-00305-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48527,"journal":{"name":"Current Epidemiology Reports","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77124344","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Melissa Meinhart, Ilana Seff, N. Lukow, Iulia Tothezan, C. Poulton, L. Stark
{"title":"Examining the Linkage Between Social Support and Gender-Based Violence Among Women and Girls in Humanitarian Settings: a Systematic Review of the Evidence","authors":"Melissa Meinhart, Ilana Seff, N. Lukow, Iulia Tothezan, C. Poulton, L. Stark","doi":"10.1007/s40471-022-00310-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40471-022-00310-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48527,"journal":{"name":"Current Epidemiology Reports","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84186325","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Thanh T. Hoang, Elizabeth Whitcomb, E. E. Reardon, L. Spector, P. Lupo, M. Scheurer, Lindsay A. Williams
{"title":"Environmental Risk Factors for Childhood Central Nervous System Tumors: an Umbrella Review","authors":"Thanh T. Hoang, Elizabeth Whitcomb, E. E. Reardon, L. Spector, P. Lupo, M. Scheurer, Lindsay A. Williams","doi":"10.1007/s40471-022-00309-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40471-022-00309-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48527,"journal":{"name":"Current Epidemiology Reports","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74031417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rayjean J Hung, Elham Khodayari Moez, Shana J Kim, Sanjeev Budhathoki, Jennifer D Brooks
{"title":"Considerations of biomarker application for cancer continuum in the era of precision medicine.","authors":"Rayjean J Hung, Elham Khodayari Moez, Shana J Kim, Sanjeev Budhathoki, Jennifer D Brooks","doi":"10.1007/s40471-022-00295-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40471-022-00295-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose of the review: </strong>The goal of this review is to highlight emerging biomarker research by the key phases of the cancer continuum and outline the methodological considerations for biomarker application.</p><p><strong>Recent findings: </strong>While biomarkers have an established role in targeted therapy and to some extent, disease monitoring, their role in early detection and survivorship remains to be elucidated. With the advent of omics technology, the discovery of biomarkers has been accelerated exponentially, therefore careful consideration to ensure an unbiased study design and robust validity is crucial.</p><p><strong>Summary: </strong>The rigor of biomarker research holds the key to the success of precision health care. The potential clinical utility and the feasibility of implementation should be central to future biomarker research study design.</p>","PeriodicalId":48527,"journal":{"name":"Current Epidemiology Reports","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9454320/pdf/nihms-1825288.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33459424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}