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Lerner Center Senior Research Associate Jennifer Karas Montez Featured in Scientific American Article

Lerner Center Senior Research Associate Jennifer Karas Montez was recently featured in the Scientific American article “People in Republican Counties Have Higher Death Rates Than Those in Democratic Counties”.

“The study’s longitudinal approach and county-by-county analysis replicate and extend a clear pattern, says Jennifer Karas Montez, a sociologist and demographer at Syracuse University, who was not involved in the research. “It joins an already existing, pretty robust literature showing that politics [and] polarization do have life-and-death consequences,” Montez says.” 

Read the full article here.

Lerner Center’s Yue Sun, Kent Jason G. Cheng, and Shannon Monnat Publish New Study in Journal of Rural Social Sciences.

Since late 2020, COVID-19 mortality rates have been higher in rural than urban America, but there has also been substantial within-rural heterogeneity. Using CDC data, Sun, Cheng, and Monnat compare COVID-19 mortality rates across the rural-urban continuum and within rural counties across different types of labor markets and by metropolitan adjacency.

Read the full article by Yue Sun, Kent Jason Cheng, and Shannon Monnat here.

Lerner Faculty Affiliate Jennifer Karas Montez Publishes New Study

Lerner Faculty Affiliate Jennifer Karas Montez and co-authors publish a new study examining the relationship between how the education-sleep association varies across U.S. states. Findings from the study document variation across states in the education-sleep association and suggest that those with lower levels of education may be most vulnerable to state characteristics. 

Read the full study here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11113-021-09684-1#Tab1

Lerner Faculty Affiliates Marc A. Garcia and Catherine Garcia publish a new study in Innovation in Aging

Marc A. Garcia and Catherine Garcia recently published a new study entitled ” Age Patterns in Self-Reported Cognitive Impairment among Older Latino Subgroups and Non-Latino Whites in the U.S., 1997 to 2018: Implications for Public Health Policy“. The study aims to examine heterogeneity in self-reported cognitive impairment among older U.S. Latino.

The full article can be accessed here: https://academic.oup.com/innovateage/article/5/4/igab039/6375379?s=09

Lerner Faculty Affiliate Andrew London Publishes New Study in SSM-Population Health

Lerner Faculty Affiliate Andrew London has published a new study in SSM-Population Health entitled “Depression and mental health service use among 12-17-year-old U.S. adolescents: Associations with current parental and sibling military service”. The study shows that adolescents who have a sibling currently serving in the military are an at-risk population for major depressive disorder and potentially other mental and behavioral health problems.

Read the entire paper here.

Lerner Faculty Affiliate Scott Landes quoted in California News-Times article

Scott Landes was quoted in the California News-Times article “California COVID vaccine mandate extends to aides for people with disabilities.”

Studies show that people with intellectual or developmental disabilities often have an underlying health condition. Make them more sensitive Accomplice.

“And when they are diagnosed with covid-19, they are about two to three times more likely to die of the disease,” he said. Scott Landes, Associate Professor of Sociology, Faculty of Citizenship and Public Relations, Syracuse University.

Landes said The case seems to depend on two variables: The amount of face-to-face intimate care required by existing conditions and people with developmental disabilities.

“This really makes sense for covid,” he said. “If you have a caregiver right next to you all day long, it will increase your chances of getting sick.”

Lerner Faculty Affiliates Catherine Garcia, Marc Garcia publish article in The Gerontological Society of America.

Faculty Affiliates Marc Garcia and Catherine Garcia recently published a new paper entitled “Age Patterns in Self-Reported Cognitive Impairment among Older Latino Subgroups and Non-Latino Whites in the U.S., 1997 to 2018: Implications for Public Health Policy” with The Gerontological Society of America. The results underscore the importance of differentiating between unique Latino subpopulations when studying population-level trends in cognitive function. Read the paper here: https://academic.oup.com/…/geroni/igab039/6375379…

Lerner Faculty Affiliate Amy Schwartz and colleagues secure $3.5 million NIH funding

Lerner Center Faculty Affiliate Amy Schwartz is the Principal Investigator on a new $3.5 million grant funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research. The project: “COVID-19, Vaccinations and School/Community Resources: Children’s Longitudinal Health and Education Outcomes using Linked Administrative Data” will examine how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted children’s health and education in NYC over time, using a set of linked administrative data from multiple domains and including all children enrolled in the public school system. The study will determine how racial/ethnic and income disparities were affected, investigate the effects of vaccine availability and uptake, and explore the role of school and neighborhood resources in shaping outcomes and disparities. Michah Rothbart, Assistant Professor of Public Administration and International Affairs at SU, is a Co-Investigator on the project.