Urban Institute

Greater Lawndale Lotería: A Participatory Popular Education Method for Disseminating Community-Based Research on the Social Determinants of Work and Health

Community health is disproportionately impacted by social determinants of health, and work constitutes a primary, but often overlooked, social determinant of health. Occupation and work environment influence health through specific mechanistic pathways: work provides opportunitie...

Comparing two models for counting missing persons: Implications for missing and/or murdered Indigenous persons research

The current study presents a replication and extension of the ‘Nebraska Model’ for counting missing persons and examining the scope of missing American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) persons. Here, we tested the Nebraska Model in New Mexico and then utilized an Extended Model that...

Moving Beyond the Numbers: Data Walks as a Tool to Engage Youth in Research

Youth-driven solutions are required to address the mental health challenges facing youth in the United States. Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) is a framework that values the contributions of young people to research processes. Data walks are a methodology that aligns w...

Mapping changes in ecosystem wealth associated with cities expansion: the case of 9 Asian countries

Urban expansion is an important driver of environmental change, leading to land-cover conversion and changes in ecosystem wealth. While previous studies have assessed the national effects of urbanization on ecosystems, few have attributed these effects to specific cities based on...