Papers by David Himmelgreen
The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 1998
This article analyzes data on drug injection frequency in a sample of more than 13,000 out-of-tre... more This article analyzes data on drug injection frequency in a sample of more than 13,000 out-of-treatment drug injectors interviewed across 21 U.S. cities and Puerto Rico through the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Cooperative Agreement for AIDS Community-Based Outreach/Intervention Research Program. The goals of the article are to present findings on injection frequency and to predict variation in terms of a set of variables suggested by previous research, including location, ethnicity, gender, age, educational attainment, years since first use of alcohol and marijuana, income, living arrangement, homelessness, drugs injected, and duration of injection across drugs. Three models were tested. Significant intersite differences were identified in injection frequency, although most of the other predictor variables we tested accounted for little of the variance. Ethnicity and drugs injected, however, were found to be significant. Taken together, location, ethnicity, and type of drug injected provide a configuration that differentiated and (for the variables available for the analysis) best predicted injection frequency. The public health implications of these findings are presented.
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Journal of Nutrition Education, 2000
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This article seeks to contribute to efforts toward the identification and critical analysis of su... more This article seeks to contribute to efforts toward the identification and critical analysis of sustainable community-based initiatives that could help to ameliorate the impact of the global food crisis in developing countries. To do so, we present a discussion of a sustainable agriculture program in Lesotho, in sub-Saharan Africa. We contextualize the discussion in the framework of both the food crisis and the HIV/AIDS pandemic, both of which are taking a major toll in Lesotho. We then present a brief discussion of some of our anthropological contributions to the work of an NGO that is implementing sustainable agriculture initiatives in periurban areas of Lesotho where households are at high risk for food insecurity.
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Introduction: Increased length of time spent in the US is associated with poor dietary habits amo... more Introduction: Increased length of time spent in the US is associated with poor dietary habits among immigrants. Maintaining traditional eating habits from their country of origin is beneficial for disease prevention compared to eating habits associated with migration for many immigrant groups. We examined the role of acculturation and socio-cultural factors in predicting dietary pattern among Jamaican immigrants. Methods: A 2-stage cluster sample design was used to randomly select Jamaicans (25-64 years) in two Florida counties. Ninety-one participants were administered a health questionnaire that assessed acculturation, dietary pattern, and risk factors for CVD. Investigators hypothesized that less acculturated, lower SES, and persons living in ethnic enclaves are more likely to adhere to traditional dietary patterns. Generalized estimating equation modeling was used to examine associations. Results: Persons who were less acculturated were more likely to adhere to a traditional die...
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Nutrition Reviews, 2009
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American Anthropologist, 1992
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Annals of Anthropological Practice, 2014
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Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 2002
Journal of the American Dietetic Association, Volume 102, Issue 7, Pages 978-981, July 2002, Auth... more Journal of the American Dietetic Association, Volume 102, Issue 7, Pages 978-981, July 2002, Authors:PAULA McKERNAN BOULANGER, MS, RD; RAFAEL PÉREZ-ESCAMILLA, PhD; DAVIDHIMMELGREEN, PhD; SOFIA SEGURA-MILLÁN, MS, RD; LAUREN HALDEMAN ...
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Practicing Anthropology, 2008
74% chance of becoming infected with HIV by the time she or he reaches fifty (Stanecki, 2004). A... more 74% chance of becoming infected with HIV by the time she or he reaches fifty (Stanecki, 2004). Another commonly used rhetorical device is the life expect-ancy decrease: before the onset of the epidemic, life expectancy was projected to increase to 60 years in 2003; now ...
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Human Organization, 2000
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Practicing Anthropology, 2003
The Puerto Rican/Latino community in Hartford, Connecticut suffers disproportionately from a wide... more The Puerto Rican/Latino community in Hartford, Connecticut suffers disproportionately from a wide variety of nutrition-related problems, including food insecurity, insufficient consump-tion of fruits and vegetables, high rates of obesity, diabetes and other chronic diseases, and ...
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Anthropology News, 2003
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