Elissa R Weitzman

Summary

Affiliation: Harvard University
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Participatory surveillance of hypoglycemia and harms in an online social network
    Elissa R Weitzman
    Children sHospital Informatics Program, One Autumn Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    JAMA Intern Med 173:345-51. 2013
  2. ncbi Willingness to share personal health record data for care improvement and public health: a survey of experienced personal health record users
    Elissa R Weitzman
    Children s Hospital Informatics Program, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA, USA
    BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 12:39. 2012
  3. ncbi Sharing data for public health research by members of an international online diabetes social network
    Elissa R Weitzman
    Children s Hospital Informatics Program at the Harvard MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
    PLoS ONE 6:e19256. 2011
  4. ncbi Helping high-risk youth move through high-risk periods: personally controlled health records for improving social and health care transitions
    Elissa R Weitzman
    Children s Hospital Informatics Program at the Harvard MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
    J Diabetes Sci Technol 5:47-54. 2011
  5. ncbi Social but safe? Quality and safety of diabetes-related online social networks
    Elissa R Weitzman
    Children s Hospital Informatics Program at the Harvard MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    J Am Med Inform Assoc 18:292-7. 2011
  6. ncbi Sharing medical data for health research: the early personal health record experience
    Elissa R Weitzman
    Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
    J Med Internet Res 12:e14. 2010
  7. ncbi Acceptability of a personally controlled health record in a community-based setting: implications for policy and design
    Elissa R Weitzman
    Children s Hospital Informatics Program, One Autumn Street, Room 541, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    J Med Internet Res 11:e14. 2009
  8. ncbi Youth smoking risk and community patterns of alcohol availability and control: a national multilevel study
    Elissa R Weitzman
    Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Landmark Center, 401 Park Drive, Rm 441, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    J Epidemiol Community Health 59:1065-71. 2005
  9. ncbi The effect of a campus-community environmental alcohol prevention initiative on student drinking and driving: results from the "a matter of degree" program evaluation
    Toben F Nelson
    Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
    Traffic Inj Prev 6:323-30. 2005
  10. ncbi The co-occurrence of smoking and drinking among young adults in college: national survey results from the United States
    Elissa R Weitzman
    Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Landmark Center, 401 Park Drive, P O Box 15678, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    Drug Alcohol Depend 80:377-86. 2005

Detail Information

Publications18

  1. ncbi Participatory surveillance of hypoglycemia and harms in an online social network
    Elissa R Weitzman
    Children sHospital Informatics Program, One Autumn Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    JAMA Intern Med 173:345-51. 2013
    ..Surveillance systems for elucidating the burden of hypoglycemia are limited...
  2. ncbi Willingness to share personal health record data for care improvement and public health: a survey of experienced personal health record users
    Elissa R Weitzman
    Children s Hospital Informatics Program, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA, USA
    BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 12:39. 2012
    ..We sought to characterize consumer willingness and unwillingness (reticence) to share PCHR data across health topics, and with different stakeholders, to advance understanding of this issue...
  3. ncbi Sharing data for public health research by members of an international online diabetes social network
    Elissa R Weitzman
    Children s Hospital Informatics Program at the Harvard MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
    PLoS ONE 6:e19256. 2011
    ....
  4. ncbi Helping high-risk youth move through high-risk periods: personally controlled health records for improving social and health care transitions
    Elissa R Weitzman
    Children s Hospital Informatics Program at the Harvard MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
    J Diabetes Sci Technol 5:47-54. 2011
    ....
  5. ncbi Social but safe? Quality and safety of diabetes-related online social networks
    Elissa R Weitzman
    Children s Hospital Informatics Program at the Harvard MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    J Am Med Inform Assoc 18:292-7. 2011
    ..To foster informed decision-making about health social networking (SN) by patients and clinicians, the authors evaluated the quality/safety of SN sites' policies and practices...
  6. ncbi Sharing medical data for health research: the early personal health record experience
    Elissa R Weitzman
    Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
    J Med Internet Res 12:e14. 2010
    ..Understanding consumer willingness to share data is critical to advancing this model...
  7. ncbi Acceptability of a personally controlled health record in a community-based setting: implications for policy and design
    Elissa R Weitzman
    Children s Hospital Informatics Program, One Autumn Street, Room 541, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    J Med Internet Res 11:e14. 2009
    ..Recently launched PCHR platforms include Google Health, Microsoft's HealthVault, and the Dossia platform, based on Indivo...
  8. ncbi Youth smoking risk and community patterns of alcohol availability and control: a national multilevel study
    Elissa R Weitzman
    Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Landmark Center, 401 Park Drive, Rm 441, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    J Epidemiol Community Health 59:1065-71. 2005
    ..To test whether college youth smoking risks are independently associated with community patterns of alcohol availability and control...
  9. ncbi The effect of a campus-community environmental alcohol prevention initiative on student drinking and driving: results from the "a matter of degree" program evaluation
    Toben F Nelson
    Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
    Traffic Inj Prev 6:323-30. 2005
    ..This study evaluates the effect on drinking and driving outcomes of the "A Matter of Degree" program, a campus-community coalition initiative to reduce college binge drinking...
  10. ncbi The co-occurrence of smoking and drinking among young adults in college: national survey results from the United States
    Elissa R Weitzman
    Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Landmark Center, 401 Park Drive, P O Box 15678, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    Drug Alcohol Depend 80:377-86. 2005
    ..In US colleges, alcohol and tobacco pose substantial health risks but little is known about their co-occurrence, limiting development and use of appropriately targeted prevention efforts...
  11. ncbi Risk modifying effect of social capital on measures of heavy alcohol consumption, alcohol abuse, harms, and secondhand effects: national survey findings
    Elissa R Weitzman
    Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 401 Park Drive, PO Box 15678, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    J Epidemiol Community Health 59:303-9. 2005
    ..To examine associations between social capital and individual risk for alcohol abuse and harms and identify protective effect mechanisms...
  12. ncbi College student binge drinking and the "prevention paradox": implications for prevention and harm reduction
    Elissa R Weitzman
    Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    J Drug Educ 34:247-65. 2004
    ..Implications for prevention policy, programming, and media advocacy are discussed...
  13. ncbi Reducing drinking and related harms in college: evaluation of the "A Matter of Degree" program
    Elissa R Weitzman
    Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
    Am J Prev Med 27:187-96. 2004
    ..To examine the effects of a multisite environmental prevention initiative, the "A Matter of Degree" (AMOD) program, on student heavy alcohol consumption and resultant harms at ten colleges...
  14. ncbi The relationship of alcohol outlet density to heavy and frequent drinking and drinking-related problems among college students at eight universities
    Elissa R Weitzman
    Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health, Landmark Center, 401 Park Drive, P O Box Boston, MA 15678, 02215, USA
    Health Place 9:1-6. 2003
    ..01), frequent drinking (r=0.73, p=0.04) and drinking-related problems (r=0.79, p=0.02). Women, underage students and students who picked up binge drinking in college were affected. Implications for prevention and research are discussed...
  15. ncbi Taking up binge drinking in college: the influences of person, social group, and environment
    Elissa R Weitzman
    Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health, Landmark Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
    J Adolesc Health 32:26-35. 2003
    ..To identify person, social group, and environmental factors associated with uptake of binge drinking among a national sample of college students...
  16. ncbi Alcohol abuse and dependence among U.S. college students
    John R Knight
    Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, and Children s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
    J Stud Alcohol 63:263-70. 2002
    ..To estimate the prevalence of alcohol abuse and dependence among U.S. college students, and to identify characteristics associated with these diagnoses...
  17. ncbi Poor mental health, depression, and associations with alcohol consumption, harm, and abuse in a national sample of young adults in college
    Elissa R Weitzman
    Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    J Nerv Ment Dis 192:269-77. 2004
    ..College is a critical context for studying youth mental health. The interrelationship of mental health problems and their clustering by group and college are important considerations for prevention and treatment...
  18. ncbi Depressive symptoms, DSM-IV alcohol abuse and their comorbidity among children of problem drinkers in a national survey: effects of parent and child gender and parent recovery status
    Ying-Yeh Chen
    Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Landmark Center, 401 Park Drive, P.O. Box 15678, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
    J Stud Alcohol 66:66-73. 2005
    ..The results highlight the importance of early and gender-specific interventions for COPDs...