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The non-linear risk of mortality by income level in a healthy population: US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey mortality follow-up cohort, 1988-2001David H Rehkopf
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, 185 Berry Street, Lobby 5, Suite 5700, Campus Box 0560, San Francisco CA 94118, USA
BMC Public Health 8:383. 2008..The purpose of this study is to describe the non-linear risks of all-cause and cause-specific mortality across the income distribution...- Lifetime socioeconomic position and twins' health: an analysis of 308 pairs of United States women twinsNancy Krieger
Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
PLoS Med 2:e162. 2005..This comparison permitted us to ascertain the additional impact of adult experiences on adult health in a population matched on early life experiences... - Proximal, distal, and the politics of causation: what's level got to do with it?Nancy Krieger
Professor, Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Kresge 717, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Public Health 98:221-30. 2008.... - "Bodies count," and body counts: social epidemiology and embodying inequalityNancy Krieger
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Epidemiol Rev 26:92-103. 2004 - The fall and rise of US inequities in premature mortality: 1960-2002Nancy Krieger
Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
PLoS Med 5:e46. 2008..We accordingly decided to test the hypothesis that health inequities widen-or shrink-in a context of declining mortality rates, by examining annual US mortality data over a 42 year period... - Hormone therapy and the rise and perhaps fall of US breast cancer incidence rates: critical reflectionsNancy Krieger
Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Kresge 717, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Epidemiol 37:627-37. 2008.... - Race/ethnicity and breast cancer estrogen receptor status: impact of class, missing data, and modeling assumptionsNancy Krieger
Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Cancer Causes Control 19:1305-18. 2008.... - Race/ethnicity, gender, and monitoring socioeconomic gradients in health: a comparison of area-based socioeconomic measures--the public health disparities geocoding projectNancy Krieger
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Am J Public Health 93:1655-71. 2003..g., percentage below poverty) were most sensitive to expected socioeconomic gradients in health, with the most consistent results and maximal geocoding linkage evident for tract-level analyses... - Assessing health impact assessment: multidisciplinary and international perspectivesN Krieger
Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Epidemiol Community Health 57:659-62. 2003..Critical debate over the promise, process, and pitfalls of HIA needs to be informed by multiple disciplines and perspectives from diverse people and regions of the world... - Genders, sexes, and health: what are the connections--and why does it matter?Nancy Krieger
Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boson, MA 02115, USA
Int J Epidemiol 32:652-7. 2003..Because our science will only be as clear and error-free as our thinking, greater precision about whether and when gender relations, sex-linked biology, both, or neither matter for health is warranted... - Commentary: ways of asking and ways of living: reflections on the 50th anniversary of Morris' ever-useful Uses of EpidemiologyNancy Krieger
Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Epidemiol 36:1173-80. 2007 - Experiences of discrimination: validity and reliability of a self-report measure for population health research on racism and healthNancy Krieger
Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Soc Sci Med 61:1576-96. 2005.... - Why epidemiologists cannot afford to ignore povertyNancy Krieger
Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Epidemiology 18:658-63. 2007..It is the responsibility of all epidemiologists, and not only social epidemiologists, to keep in mind the connections between poverty and health... - Hormone replacement therapy, cancer, controversies, and women's health: historical, epidemiological, biological, clinical, and advocacy perspectivesNancy Krieger
Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Kresge 717, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02130, USA
J Epidemiol Community Health 59:740-8. 2005.... - Stormy weather: race, gene expression, and the science of health disparitiesNancy Krieger
Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Public Health 95:2155-60. 2005..The larger goal is to strengthen development of a more critical, reflexive, and rigorous science capable of generating evidence useful for rectifying--rather than perpetuating--social disparities in health... - Race/ethnicity and changing US socioeconomic gradients in breast cancer incidence: California and Massachusetts, 1978-2002 (United States)Nancy Krieger
Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
Cancer Causes Control 17:217-26. 2006..We tested the hypothesis that the US socioeconomic gradient in breast cancer incidence is declining, with the decline most pronounced among racial/ethnic groups with the highest incidence rates... - Class matters: U.S. versus U.K. measures of occupational disparities in access to health services and health status in the 2000 U.S. National Health Interview SurveyNancy Krieger
Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Health Serv 35:213-36. 2005.... - Social hazards on the job: workplace abuse, sexual harassment, and racial discrimination--a study of Black, Latino, and White low-income women and men workers in the United StatesNancy Krieger
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Health Serv 36:51-85. 2006..Together, these findings imply that the lived--and combined-experiences of class, race, and gender inequities and their attendant assaults on human dignity are highly germane to analyses of workers' health... - Embodiment: a conceptual glossary for epidemiologyNancy Krieger
Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Epidemiol Community Health 59:350-5. 2005..This glossary sketches some key concepts, definitions, and hypotheses relevant for using the construct of "embodiment" in epidemiological research, so as to promote not only rigorous science but also social equity in health... - Defining and investigating social disparities in cancer: critical issuesNancy Krieger
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Kresge 717, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Cancer Causes Control 16:5-14. 2005.... - Cancer disparities: developing a multidisciplinary research agenda - prefaceNancy Krieger
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Kresge 717, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Cancer Causes Control 16:1-3. 2005.... - Painting a truer picture of US socioeconomic and racial/ethnic health inequalities: the Public Health Disparities Geocoding ProjectNancy Krieger
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Public Health 95:312-23. 2005..We describe a method to facilitate routine monitoring of socioeconomic health disparities in the United States... - Place, space, and health: GIS and epidemiologyNancy Krieger
Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Epidemiology 14:384-5. 2003 - The inverse hazard law: blood pressure, sexual harassment, racial discrimination, workplace abuse and occupational exposures in US low-income black, white and Latino workersNancy Krieger
Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Soc Sci Med 67:1970-81. 2008..As clarified by the "inverse hazard law," to understand health inequities, research is needed that contrasts exposures and health status population-wide, not just among those most inequitably exposed... - Racial discrimination, psychological distress, and self-rated health among US-born and foreign-born Black AmericansNancy Krieger
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Public Health 101:1704-13. 2011..We investigated associations among racial discrimination, psychological distress, and self-rated health among US-born and immigrant Black Americans... - Changing to the 2000 standard million: are declining racial/ethnic and socioeconomic inequalities in health real progress or statistical illusion?N Krieger
Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Public Health 91:1209-13. 2001..This study determined the effects of changing from the 1940 to the 2000 standard million on monitoring socioeconomic and racial/ethnic inequalities in health... - On the wrong side of the tracts? Evaluating the accuracy of geocoding in public health researchN Krieger
Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Public Health 91:1114-6. 2001..This study sought to determine the accuracy of geocoding for public health databases... - Class inequalities in women's health: combined impact of childhood and adult social class--a study of 630 US womenN Krieger
Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Public Health 115:175-85. 2001..8, 95% CI=1.0-3.3) was apparent only among women who were non-working class in childhood. These results indicate that both childhood and adult class position influence class gradients in women's health in the United States... - Shrinking, widening, reversing, and stagnating trends in US socioeconomic inequities in cancer mortality for the total, black, and white populations: 1960-2006Nancy Krieger
Department of Society, Human Development and Health SHDH, Harvard School of Public Health HSPH, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Cancer Causes Control 23:297-319. 2012..OBJECTIVES OF STUDY: To test recent claims that cancer inequities are bound to increase as population health improves... - Can we monitor socioeconomic inequalities in health? A survey of U.S. health departments' data collection and reporting practicesN Krieger
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Public Health Rep 112:481-91. 1997..S. vital statistics and disease registry data, the authors surveyed current data collection and reporting practices for specific socioeconomic variables... - Social class, race/ethnicity, and incidence of breast, cervix, colon, lung, and prostate cancer among Asian, Black, Hispanic, and White residents of the San Francisco Bay Area, 1988-92 (United States)N Krieger
Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Cancer Causes Control 10:525-37. 1999.... - Racial discrimination and skin color in the CARDIA study: implications for public health research. Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young AdultsN Krieger
Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Mass 02115, USA
Am J Public Health 88:1308-13. 1998..This study assessed whether skin color and ways of handling anger can serve as markers for experiences of racial discrimination and responses to unfair treatment in public health research... - Measuring social class in US public health research: concepts, methodologies, and guidelinesN Krieger
Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Annu Rev Public Health 18:341-78. 1997..Suggestions for research on socioeconomic measures are provided, to aid monitoring steps toward social equity in health... - Combining explicit and implicit measures of racial discrimination in health researchNancy Krieger
Dept of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Public Health 100:1485-92. 2010..To improve measurement of discrimination for health research, we sought to address the concern that explicit self-reports of racial discrimination may not capture unconscious cognition... - Temporal trends in the black/white breast cancer case ratio for estrogen receptor status: disparities are historically contingent, not innateNancy Krieger
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Kresge 717, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Cancer Causes Control 22:511-4. 2011.... - Monitoring socioeconomic inequalities in sexually transmitted infections, tuberculosis, and violence: geocoding and choice of area-based socioeconomic measures--the public health disparities geocoding project (US)Nancy Krieger
Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Public Health Rep 118:240-60. 2003..To determine which area-based socioeconomic measures, at which level of geography, are suitable for monitoring socioeconomic inequalities in sexually transmitted infections (STIs), tuberculosis (TB), and violence in the United States... - Choosing area based socioeconomic measures to monitor social inequalities in low birth weight and childhood lead poisoning: The Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project (US)N Krieger
Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Epidemiol Community Health 57:186-99. 2003..To determine which area based socioeconomic measures can meaningfully be used, at which level of geography, to monitor socioeconomic inequalities in childhood health in the US... - Does racism harm health? Did child abuse exist before 1962? On explicit questions, critical science, and current controversies: an ecosocial perspectiveNancy Krieger
Department of Health and Social Behavior and the Harvard Center for Society and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Mass 02115, USA
Am J Public Health 93:194-9. 2003.... - Ladders, pyramids and champagne: the iconography of health inequitiesN Krieger
Department of Society Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
J Epidemiol Community Health 62:1098-104. 2008.... - Workers are people too: societal aspects of occupational health disparities--an ecosocial perspectiveNancy Krieger
Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Am J Ind Med 53:104-15. 2010.... - Geocoding and monitoring of US socioeconomic inequalities in mortality and cancer incidence: does the choice of area-based measure and geographic level matter?: the Public Health Disparities Geocoding ProjectNancy Krieger
Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Epidemiol 156:471-82. 2002.... - Decline in US breast cancer rates after the Women's Health Initiative: socioeconomic and racial/ethnic differentialsNancy Krieger
Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Kresge 717, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Public Health 100:S132-9. 2010.... - Occupational, social, and relationship hazards and psychological distress among low-income workers: implications of the 'inverse hazard law'Nancy Krieger
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Kresge 717, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Epidemiol Community Health 65:260-72. 2011.... - Is breast cancer a disease of affluence, poverty, or both? The case of African American womenNancy Krieger
Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Public Health 92:611-3. 2002 - Exposing racial discrimination: implicit & explicit measures--the My Body, My Story study of 1005 US-born black & white community health center membersNancy Krieger
Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
PLoS ONE 6:e27636. 2011.... - Comparing individual- and area-based socioeconomic measures for the surveillance of health disparities: A multilevel analysis of Massachusetts births, 1989-1991S V Subramanian
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115 6096, USA
Am J Epidemiol 164:823-34. 2006..The risk, if any, in the absence of individual-level socioeconomic information is a conservative estimate of socioeconomic inequalities in health... - Adult onset of major depressive disorder in relation to early life violent victimisation: a case-control studyL A Wise
Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Lancet 358:881-7. 2001..Women are twice as likely as men to be diagnosed with major depressive disorder, yet no known risk factors can account for this sex difference. We aimed to assess violent victimisation as a risk factor for depression in women... - Economic deprivation and AIDS incidence in MassachusettsS Zierler
Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Mass, USA
Am J Public Health 90:1064-73. 2000..This study quantified AIDS incidence in Massachusetts in relation to economic deprivation... - A glossary for social epidemiologyNancy Krieger
Harvard University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Epidemiol Bull 23:7-11. 2002 - Maternal experiences of racism and violence as predictors of preterm birth: rationale and study designJ Rich-Edwards
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, 133 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 15:124-35. 2001..We have begun to examine these questions among women enrolled in Project Viva, a Boston-based longitudinal study of 6000 pregnant women and their children... - Measuring social inequalities in health in the United States: a historical review, 1900-1950N Krieger
Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Health Serv 26:391-418. 1996..Efforts like these were cut short by the onset of World War II and their legacy erased by the Cold War. Recovering this rich history can help inform current debates about collecting and evaluating data on social inequalities in health... - Lifetime socioeconomic position in relation to onset of perimenopauseL A Wise
Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Brigham and Women s Hospital Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
J Epidemiol Community Health 56:851-60. 2002..To assess the association between lifetime socioeconomic position and onset of perimenopause... - Frameworks matter: ecosocial and health and human rights perspectives on disparities in women's health--the case of tuberculosisN Krieger
Department of Health and Social Behavior, Center for Society and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, USA
J Am Med Womens Assoc 56:137-42. 2001..By taking on the challenge of articulating and applying our frameworks, separately and in relation to each other, we hope to deepen understanding and generate new ideas that can make a difference for the health of girls and women... - Implications of discrimination based on sexuality, gender, and race/ethnicity for psychological distress among working-class sexual minorities: the United for Health Study, 2003-2004David H Chae
Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Society, Human Development and Health, USA
Int J Health Serv 40:589-608. 2010..Findings also highlight the importance of addressing discrimination in ameliorating problematic mental health outcomes among working-class sexual minorities... - Alcohol disorders among Asian Americans: associations with unfair treatment, racial/ethnic discrimination, and ethnic identification (the national Latino and Asian Americans study, 2002-2003)D H Chae
University of California, San Francisco, Center for Health and Community, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA
J Epidemiol Community Health 62:973-9. 2008..To examine history of alcohol abuse/dependence disorder in relation to unfair treatment, racial/ethnic discrimination, and ethnic identification among Asian Americans... - Breast cancer, birth cohorts, and Epstein-Barr virus: methodological issues in exploring the "hygiene hypothesis" in relation to breast cancer, Hodgkin's disease, and stomach cancerNancy Krieger
Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 12:405-11. 2003..One methodological implication is that tests of the hygiene hypothesis must take into account birth cohort effects and age at incidence of the outcomes under study; age-standardized cross-sectional analyses may be misleading... - Methods for recruiting white, black, and hispanic working-class women and men to a study of physical and social hazards at work: the United for Health studyElizabeth M Barbeau
Center for Community Based Research, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Health Serv 37:127-44. 2007.... - Revisiting Robinson: the perils of individualistic and ecologic fallacyS V Subramanian
Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Epidemiol 38:342-60; author reply 370-3. 2009..This study reanalyzes and historically situates Robinson's influential study that laid the foundation for the primacy of analyzing data at only the individual level... - MassBuilt: effectiveness of an apprenticeship site-based smoking cessation intervention for unionized building trades workersCassandra A Okechukwu
Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Program, University of California San Francisco and Berkeley, 3333 California St, Suite 465, San Francisco, CA 94709 0844, USA
Cancer Causes Control 20:887-94. 2009..Blue-collar workers are difficult to reach and less likely to successfully quit smoking. The objective of this study was to test a training site-based smoking cessation intervention... - Zip code caveat: bias due to spatiotemporal mismatches between zip codes and US census-defined geographic areas--the Public Health Disparities Geocoding ProjectNancy Krieger
Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Public Health 92:1100-2. 2002 - The association of workplace hazards and smoking in a U.S. multiethnic working-class populationCassandra A Okechukwu
Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Program, University of California San Francisco and Berkeley, San Francisco, CA 94709 0844, USA
Public Health Rep 125:225-33. 2010..g., dust, chemicals, noise, and ergonomic strain) and social (e.g., abuse, sexual harassment, and racial discrimination) workplace hazards in a sample of U.S. multiethnic working-class adults... - The influence of sociodemographic characteristics on agreement between self-reports and expert exposure assessmentsGrace Sembajwe
Department of Work Environment, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
Am J Ind Med 53:1019-31. 2010.... - Different slopes for different folks: socioeconomic and racial/ethnic disparities in asthma and hay fever among 173,859 U.S. men and womenJarvis T Chen
Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02122, USA
Environ Health Perspect 110:211-6. 2002.... - Methodologic implications of social inequalities for analyzing health disparities in large spatiotemporal data sets: an example using breast cancer incidence data (Northern and Southern California, 1988--2002)Jarvis T Chen
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Stat Med 27:3957-83. 2008..Our approach provides a straightforward means of fitting spatiotemporal models in large data sets, while highlighting differences in spatial patterning across racial/ethnic population and across time... - Working class matters: socioeconomic disadvantage, race/ethnicity, gender, and smoking in NHIS 2000Elizabeth M Barbeau
Center for Community Based Research, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and the Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Public Health 94:269-78. 2004..We sought to describe the burden of smoking on the US population, using diverse socioeconomic measures... - Mapping and measuring social disparities in premature mortality: the impact of census tract poverty within and across Boston neighborhoods, 1999-2001Jarvis T Chen
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Urban Health 83:1063-84. 2006..We recommend that these methods be incorporated into routine analyses of public health surveillance data to highlight continuing social disparities in premature mortality... - Immigration and generational trends in body mass index and obesity in the United States: results of the National Latino and Asian American Survey, 2002-2003Lisa M Bates
School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
Am J Public Health 98:70-7. 2008..We examined patterns of body mass index (BMI) and obesity among a nationally representative sample of first-, second-, and third-generation Latinos and Asian Americans to reveal associations with nativity or country of origin... - Racial disparities in context: a multilevel analysis of neighborhood variations in poverty and excess mortality among black populations in MassachusettsS V Subramanian
Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, KRESGE 7th Floor, Boston MA 02115 6096, USA
Am J Public Health 95:260-5. 2005..We analyzed neighborhood heterogeneity in associations among mortality, race/ethnicity, and area poverty... - Monitoring socioeconomic disparities in death: comparing individual-level education and area-based socioeconomic measuresDavid H Rehkopf
Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Mass 02115, USA
Am J Public Health 96:2135-8. 2006..2 vs 0.8 for census tract measures and individual education, respectively)... - Unfair treatment, racial/ethnic discrimination, ethnic identification, and smoking among Asian Americans in the National Latino and Asian American StudyDavid H Chae
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Am J Public Health 98:485-92. 2008..We investigated whether ethnic identification moderated either association... - Epi + demos + cracy: linking political systems and priorities to the magnitude of health inequities--evidence, gaps, and a research agendaJason Beckfield
Department of Sociology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Epidemiol Rev 31:152-77. 2009..g., life course, historical generation), choice of health outcomes, inclusion of polities, and specification of political mechanisms-to address the enormous gaps in knowledge that were identified... - Biologic risk markers for coronary heart disease: nonlinear associations with incomeDavid H Rehkopf
Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Epidemiology 21:38-46. 2010..Stronger associations at certain levels of income would have implications for underlying mechanisms... - Data, "race," and politics: a commentary on the epidemiological significance of California's Proposition 54Nancy Krieger
J Epidemiol Community Health 58:632-3. 2004 - A century of census tracts: health & the body politic (1906-2006)Nancy Krieger
J Urban Health 83:355-61. 2006.... - Work factors and occupational class disparities in sickness absence: findings from the GAZEL cohort studyMaria Melchior
National Institute of Health and Medical Research, Saint Maurice, France
Am J Public Health 95:1206-12. 2005..To estimate the contribution of stress-related and physical work factors to occupational class disparities in sickness absence from work... - Self-reported experiences of racial discrimination and Black-White differences in preterm and low-birthweight deliveries: the CARDIA StudySarah Mustillo
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Box 3454, Durham, NC 27710, USA
Am J Public Health 94:2125-31. 2004..We examined the effects of self-reported experiences of racial discrimination on Black-White differences in preterm (less than 37 weeks gestation) and low-birthweight (less than 2500 g) deliveries... - Occupational class, occupational mobility and cancer incidence among middle-aged men and women: a prospective study of the French GAZEL cohort*Maria Melchior
INSERM U88 IFR69, 14 rue du Val d Osne, 94415, Saint Maurice, France
Cancer Causes Control 16:515-24. 2005..To examine the association between occupational class, occupational mobility and cancer incidence in the 1990s... - Methods and baseline characteristics of two group-randomized trials with multiracial and multiethnic working-class samplesAnne M Stoddard
New England Research Institutes, 9 Galen St, Watertown, MA 02472, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 2:A10. 2005..This paper reports the results of the sample selection and survey methods for two group-randomized intervention studies... - Social disparities in the burden of occupational exposures: results of a cross-sectional studyMargaret M Quinn
Department of Work Environment, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts 01854, USA
Am J Ind Med 50:861-75. 2007.... - Longitudinal study of the inception of perimenopause in relation to lifetime history of sexual or physical violenceJenifer E Allsworth
Department of Community Health, Brown Medical School, Providence, RI 02912, USA
J Epidemiol Community Health 58:938-43. 2004..To investigate of the extent to which violence over the life course accelerates the onset of perimenopause, as measured by menstrual changes... - Tackling health inequitiesGeorge Davey Smith
BMJ 337:a1526. 2008 - Characterizing perceived police violence: implications for public healthHannah Cooper
Medical Helath and Research Association of New York, Inc, National Development and Research Institutes, Inc, New York, NY 10010, USA
Am J Public Health 94:1109-18. 2004..We recommend that public health research address the prevalence, nature, and public health implications of police violence... - Latin American social medicine: the quest for social justice and public healthNancy Krieger
Am J Public Health 93:1989-91. 2003 - Postmenopausal hormone therapyNancy Krieger
N Engl J Med 348:2363-4; author reply 2363-4. 2003 - Donation after cardiac death: the University of Wisconsin experience with liver transplantationDavid P Foley
Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Ann Surg 242:724-31. 2005..However, overall results of LTx after controlled DCD are encouraging; and with careful donor and recipient selection, LTx after DCD may successfully increase the donor liver pool... - The impact of a police drug crackdown on drug injectors' ability to practice harm reduction: a qualitative studyHannah Cooper
Medical Health and Research Institution National Development and Research Institutes, Inc, 71 West 23rd Street, 8th Floor, New York 10010, USA
Soc Sci Med 61:673-84. 2005..Possible strategies include improving access to treatment and establishing safe injection spaces...
Research Grants
- Racial Discrimination and Risk of Chronic DiseaseNancy Krieger; Fiscal Year: 2010....
- Racial Discrimination and Risk of Chronic DiseaseNancy Krieger; Fiscal Year: 2009....
- Breast Cancer After The Women?s Health Initiative Study: Declining Incidence?Nancy Krieger; Fiscal Year: 2007..The knowledge gained will lead to new insights about the causes of breast cancer and ways its incidence can be reduced. ..
- Race & Breast Cancer Estrogen Receptor Status: Impact of Class and Missing DataNancy Krieger; Fiscal Year: 2007....
- Geocoding, Census Data & Social Disparities in HealthNancy Krieger; Fiscal Year: 2005....
- Socioeconomic Trends in Breast Cancer IncidenceNancy Krieger; Fiscal Year: 2005..Results of this investigation will provide new insights into social determinants of and secular changes in breast cancer incidence, with implications for breast cancer surveillance, screening and control. ..
- AREA-BASED SOCIOECONOMIC MEASURES FOR HEALTH DATANancy Krieger; Fiscal Year: 2003....
- Racial Discrimination and Risk of Chronic DiseaseNancy Krieger; Fiscal Year: 2009....