Journal Article
Neighborhood Age Structure and Cognitive Function in a Nationally-Representative Sample of Older Adults in the U.S.
In this nationally-representative sample of U.S. adults aged 51 and over, living in a neighborhood in the highest tertile of the percent of adults 65 and older was associated with significantly better cognitive function.
Aug 8, 2017
Journal Article
The Hispanic Paradox: Race/Ethnicity and Nativity, Immigrant Enclave Residence and Cognitive Impairment Among Older US Adults
Foreign-born Mexican Americans are significantly less likely to experience cognitive impairment as they age than are their US-born socioeconomic peers.
May 5, 2017
Report
Demographic, Social, Economic, and Housing Characteristics: Development of a U.S. Contextual Database of 1990–2010 Measures
This report describes a contextual database of demographic, social, economic, housing, cultural, and urbanization measures for U.S. census tracts, counties, and metropolitan statistical areas for use in research.
Jan 3, 2017
Journal Article
Epidemiological Paradox or Immigrant Vulnerability? Obesity Among Young Children of Immigrants
According to the "immigrant epidemiological paradox," immigrants and their children enjoy health advantages over their U.S.-born peers--advantages that diminish with greater acculturation.
Sep 22, 2016
Journal Article
Functioning, Forgetting, or Failing Health: Which Factors Are Associated with a Community-Based Move Among Older Adults?
This study examines whether the health and functioning of middle-aged and older adults are associated with an increased likelihood of community-based moves (changing their place of residence, but not to an institutional setting).
Nov 20, 2015
Draft
Understanding the Upstream Social Determinants of Health
Describes and categorizes three types of approaches used to examine upstream social determinants of health.
May 13, 2015
Journal Article
Evaluating Linearly Interpolated Intercensal Estimates of Demographic and Socioeconomic Characteristics of U.S. Counties and Census Tracts 2001-2009
The American Community Survey (ACS) multiyear estimation program has greatly advanced opportunities for studying change in the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of U.S. communities.
2015
Journal Article
Constructing a Time-Invariant Measure of the Socio-Economic Status of U.S. Census Tracts
Contextual research on time and place requires a consistent measurement instrument for neighborhood conditions in order to make unbiased inferences about neighborhood change.
2014
Journal Article
Evaluation of Bias in Estimates of Early Childhood Obesity from Parent-Reported Heights and Weights
We evaluated bias in estimated obesity prevalence owing to error in parental reporting.
2014
Journal Article
Multiple Imputation for Combined-Survey Estimation with Incomplete Regressors in One but Not Both Surveys
Large efficiency gains and substantial reduction in omitted variable bias are demonstrated in an application to sociodemographic differences in the risk of child obesity estimated from two nationally representative cohort surveys.
Nov 1, 2013
Journal Article
Parent-reported Height and Weight as Sources of Bias in Survey Estimates of Childhood Obesity
Parental reporting of height and weight was evaluated for US children aged 2–13 years.
Aug 1, 2013
Journal Article
Can Honorific Awards Give Us Clues About the Connection Between Socioeconomic Status and Mortality?
The critical processes determining the strength and direction of any status effect on longevity are changes in life circumstances that result from winning or losing.
2013
Journal Article
Early Adult Obesity and U.S. Women's Lifetime Childbearing Experiences
Obesity has long-term ramifications for women's childbearing experiences with respect to whether and how many children women have in general and relative to the number of children they want.
2013
Journal Article
Prenatal, Perinatal, Early Life, and Sociodemographic Factors Underlying Racial Differences in the Likelihood of High Body Index in Early Childhood
Racial disparities in early childhood high BMI were largely explained by potentially modifiable risk and protective factors.
Oct 16, 2012
Journal Article
Intergenerational Relationships Between the Smoking Patterns of a Population-Representative Sample of US Mothers and the Smoking Trajectories of Their Children
The authors assessed intergenerational transmission of smoking in mother-child dyads.
Apr 1, 2012
Journal Article
Hispanic and Black US Children's Paths to High Adolescent Obesity Prevalence
Adolescent obesity in equally prevalent among Hispanic and black children, but obesity emerges and is sustained earlier in Hispanic children. Diagnosis and prevention strategies should be designed accordingly.
2012
Journal Article
Is the Intergenerational Transmission of Smoking from Mother to Child Mediated by Children's Behavior Problems?
Effects from smoking after birth to child smoking trajectory appear to be partially mediated by problem behavior, supporting a behavioral rather than physiological effect of smoking during pregnancy but not ruling out more complex physiological pathways.
2012
Draft
Multiple Imputation for Combined-Survey Estimation With Incomplete Regressors In One But Not Both Surveys
Within-survey multiple imputation (MI) methods are adapted to pooled-survey regression estimation where one survey has a larger set of regressors but fewer observations than the other.
Dec 7, 2011
Report
Mapping the Gaps: Ideas for Using GIS to Enhance Local Health Department Priority Setting and Program Planning
Using geographic information system (GIS) technology to enhance provision of services by local health departments by enabling them to visually compare where health services are needed with where they are provided.
Oct 19, 2011
Journal Article
The Protective Effect of Marriage for Survival: A Review and Update
Findings include a consistent survival advantage for married over unmarried men and women, and an additional survival "premium" for married men, and little evidence of mortality differences between never-married, divorced/separated, and widowed statuses.
May 1, 2011
Journal Article
The Multidimensional Relationship Between Early Adult Body Weight and Women's Childbearing Experiences
We analyze data from two female cohorts who participated in the National Longitudinal Study of Youth (NLSY79).
2011
Journal Article
Neighborhood Archetypes for Population Health Research: Is There No Place Like Home?
Latent class analysis. A new approach to studying the role of place in population health, can be used in both research and practice.
2011
Journal Article
Using Geographic Information Systems to Match Local Health Needs with Public Health Services and Programs
Large local health departments could better inform planning and investments by using geographic information systems to align community needs and health outcomes with public health programs.
2011
Draft
Technical Detail and Appendices for a Study of Neighborhood Archetypes for Population Health Research
Demonstrates a new approach that employs neighborhood measures such as social environment, built environment, commuting and migration, and demographics and household composition to classify neighborhoods into archetypes.
Nov 9, 2010
Journal Article
Neighbourhood Socioeconomic Status and Biological 'Wear and Tear' in a Nationally Representative Sample of US Adults
Living in a lower SES neighborhood is associated with greater biological wear and tear.
Oct 1, 2010
Journal Article
A Life-Course Approach to the Study of Neighborhoods and Health
The authors present a new way to think sociologically about neighborhoods and place effects.
2010
Tool
Enhancing Public Health Emergency Preparedness for Special Needs Populations: A Toolkit for State and Local Planning and Response
Presents a toolkit and a Web-based Geographic Information Systems tool meant to help state and local public health agencies improve their emergency preparedness activities for special needs populations.
Sep 8, 2009
Journal Article
Subjective and Objective Neighborhood Characteristics and Adult Health
Demonstrates the independent associations between both objective and perceived neighborhood quality and adult self-rated health. Associations between perceived neighborhood quality and health are particularly strong.
2008
Draft
Twentieth Century U.S. Racial Inequalities in Mortality: Changes in the Average Age of Death and the Variability in the Age of Death for White and non-White Men and Women, 1900-2002
This paper develops a new theoretical and empirical approach to studying historical trends in social inequalities in mortality.
Jul 4, 2007
Draft
Historical and Life Course Timing of the Male Mortality Disadvantage in Europe: Epidemiologic Transitions, Evolution, and Behavior
This study employs vital statistics data from Sweden, England, Wales, France, and Spain to examine male:female mortality differentials from 1750 through 2000 and their inter-relationship with epidemiological transitions.
Jul 4, 2007
Journal Article
Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Timing of First Marriage and Smoking Cessation
Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, the authors consider the relationship between the timing of family formation and positive changes in health behavior.
2007
Journal Article
Historical and Life Course Timing of the Male Mortality Disadvantage in Europe: Epidemiologic Transitions, Evolution, and Behavior
This study employs vital statistics data from Sweden, England, Wales, France, and Spain to examine male:female mortality differentials from 1750 through 2000 and their interrelationship with epidemiological transitions.
May 1, 2006