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Open AccessAuthor Correction: Assessing cohesion and diversity in the collaboration network of the SALURBAL project
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The SALURBAL (Urban Health in Latin America) Project is an interdisciplinary multinational network aimed at generating and disseminating actionable evidence on the drivers of health in cities of Latin America....
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Open AccessExploring the mechanistic pathways of how social network influences social norms in adolescent smoking prevention interventions
We know little about how smoking prevention interventions might leverage social network structures to enhance protective social norms. In this study we combined statistical and network science methods to explo...
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Nature vs. Nurture in Science: The Effect of Researchers Segregation on Papers’ Citation Histories
Academia is a competitive world where researchers are judged by their productivity, and their strategies to get visibility and success (i.e., number of citations) vary. In addition to conducting rigorous resea...
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Open AccessOur Voice in a rural community: empowering Colombian adolescents to advocate for school community well-being through citizen science
Santa Ana is home to an Afro-descendant rural population of the island of Barú in Cartagena, Colombia. While a popular area for tourism, Santa Ana’s population is affected by multidimensional poverty, precario...
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What is the impact of social class on college integration? Higher education institutions are becoming more diverse, yet the integration of underprivileged students remains a challenge. Using a social network a...
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Open AccessSocio-environmental and psychosocial predictors of smoking susceptibility among adolescents with contrasting socio-cultural characteristics: a comparative analysis
Despite a steady decline in adolescent smoking globally, it remains a prevalent risk factor for non-communicable disease. Previous research points to differences in socio-environmental and psychosocial risk fa...
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Building a Methodological Foundation for Impactful Urban Planetary Health Science
Anthropogenic environmental change will heavily impact cities, yet associated health risks will depend significantly on decisions made by urban leaders across a wide range of non-health sectors, including tran...
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The explosion of network science has permitted an understanding of how the structure of social networks affects the dynamics of social contagion. In community-based interventions with spill-over effects, ident...
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Transport systems can play an important role in increasing physical activity (PA). Bogotá has been recognized for its bus rapid transit (BRT) system, TransMilenio (TM). To date, BRTs have been implemented in o...
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One promising public health intervention for promoting physical activity is the Ciclovía program. The Ciclovía is a regular multisectorial community-based program in which streets are temporarily closed for mo...
