A difference-in-differences analysis of health, safety, and greening vacant urban space

CC Branas, RA Cheney, JM MacDonald… - American journal of …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Greening of vacant urban land may affect health and safety. The authors conducted a
decade-long difference-in-differences analysis of the impact of a vacant lot greening program in …

Neighborhood blight, stress, and health: a walking trial of urban greening and ambulatory heart rate

EC South, MC Kondo, RA Cheney… - American journal of …, 2015 - ajph.aphapublications.org
… MCKondo and RACheney assisted in data analysis and writing. CCBranas supervised the …
Groenewegen PP, van den Berg AE, de Vries S, Verheij RA. Vitamin G: effects of green space …

Nutritional supplementation to reduce child aggression: a randomized, stratified, single‐blind, factorial trial

A Raine, RA Cheney, R Ho, J Portnoy… - Journal of child …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Background While some studies suggest that nutritional supplementation may reduce aggressive
behavior in children, they have not examined whether its efficacy may be enhanced in …

Effect of transdermal nicotine delivery as an adjunct to low-intervention smoking cessation therapy: a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind study

…, M Knowles, CN Rolf, RA Cheney… - Archives of Internal …, 1991 - jamanetwork.com
To assess the smoking cessation efficacy of transdermal nicotine patches as an adjunct to
low-intervention therapy, we conducted a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial in 158 smokers…

Mortality trends in Philadelphia: Age-and cause-specific death rates 1870–1930

GA Condran, RA Cheney - Demography, 1982 - read.dukeupress.edu
… ed in 1880, and although the exact pattern of change over time is not known, a fairly
large underregistration was probably the rule for much of the time period in our analysis (Cheney, …

Reducing firearm violence: a research agenda

…, AL Berman, CC Branas, RA Cheney… - Injury …, 2007 - injuryprevention.bmj.com
In the United States, firearms are involved in tens of thousands of deaths and injuries each
year. The magnitude of this problem prompted the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to …

Seasonal aspects of infant and childhood mortality: Philadelphia, 1865-1920

RA Cheney - The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 1984 - JSTOR
patterns in infant mortality have been observed historically in both Europe and America. From
the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries, infant mortality often rose sharply in the …

The decline in mortality in Philadelphia from 1870 to 1930: The role of municipal services

GA Condran, H Williams, RA Cheney - The Pennsylvania Magazine of …, 1984 - JSTOR
THE CHRISTMAS SEASON of 1880 should have been a happy occasion for Charles and
Caroline Kautz. Charles, a German immigrant in his mid-forties, had operated a three-person …

On-line medical command in theory and practice

MH Erder, SJ Davidson, RA Cheney - Annals of emergency medicine, 1989 - Elsevier
… [Erder MH, Davidson 8J, Cheney RA: On-line medical command in theory and practice. Ann
Emerg Med March 1989;18:261-… ON-LINE MEDICAL COMMAND Erder, Davidson & Cheney

Computer assisted Cobb angle measurements: a novel algorithm

…, K Hesham, N Richardson, RA Cheney… - International Journal of …, 2017 - ijssurgery.com
Background The standard for evaluating scoliosis is PA radiographs using Cobb angle to
measure curve magnitude. Newer PACS systems allow easier Cobb angle calculations, but …