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Do physician beliefs about causes of obesity translate into actionable issues on which physicians counsel their patients?Sara N Bleich
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA Electronic address
Prev Med 56:326-8. 2013..To describe the relationship between primary care physicians' (PCPs') beliefs about the causes of obesity with the frequency of nutritional counseling...- Impact of physician BMI on obesity care and beliefsSara N Bleich
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 20:999-1005. 2012..These results suggest that more normal weight physicians provided recommended obesity care to their patients and felt confident doing so... - Health inequalities: trends, progress, and policySara N Bleich
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Annu Rev Public Health 33:7-40. 2012..More research and better methods are needed to measure precisely the relationships between stated policy goals and observed trends in health inequalities... 
Reduction in purchases of sugar-sweetened beverages among low-income Black adolescents after exposure to caloric informationSara N Bleich
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Am J Public Health 102:329-35. 2012..We examined the effect of an intervention to provide caloric information about sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) on the number of SSB purchases...- Impact of patient-doctor race concordance on rates of weight-related counseling in visits by black and white obese individualsSara N Bleich
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 20:562-70. 2012..90). Black obese patients receive less exercise counseling than white obese patients in visits to white physicians and may be less likely than white obese patients to receive weight-reduction counseling in visits to black physicians... - Relative contribution of energy intake and energy expenditure to childhood obesity: a review of the literature and directions for future researchS N Bleich
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Int J Obes (Lond) 35:1-15. 2011..However, whether energy intake or expenditure is the dominant contributor to childhood obesity is a subject of debate. To date, no study has systematically reviewed the literature on this subject... - Noncommunicable chronic disease in Bangladesh: overview of existing programs and priorities going forwardSara N Bleich
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Health Policy 100:282-9. 2011..This paper reviews existing NCD programs in Bangladesh and identifies key priorities for the country to help address the NCD burden... - Consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages among adults with type 2 diabetesSara N Bleich
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Diabetes Care 34:551-5. 2011..To examine patterns of sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) consumption among U.S. adults with type 2 diabetes in 2003-2006... - Impact of bariatric surgery on health care utilization and costs among patients with diabetesSara N Bleich
Department of Health Policy and Management, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Med Care 50:58-65. 2012..The effect of bariatric surgery on health care utilization and costs among individuals with type 2 diabetes remains unclear... - Social context explains race disparities in obesity among womenSara N Bleich
Department of Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, 624 N Broadway, Room 451, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Epidemiol Community Health 64:465-9. 2010..The goal of this study was to investigate whether race disparities in obesity among women persist in a community of black people and white people living in the same social context with similar income... - Physician practice patterns of obesity diagnosis and weight-related counselingSara N Bleich
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, MA 21205, USA
Patient Educ Couns 82:123-9. 2011..we analyzed cross-sectional clinical encounter data. Obese adults were obtained from the 2005 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (N=2458)... - The publics' understanding of daily caloric recommendations and their perceptions of calorie posting in chain restaurantsSara N Bleich
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore MD, USA
BMC Public Health 10:121. 2010..Little research has assessed consumer understanding of overall daily energy requirements or perceived effectiveness of calorie posting... - Impact of insurance and supply of health professionals on coverage of treatment for hypertension in Mexico: population based studySara N Bleich
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
BMJ 335:875. 2007..To examine the independent and combined contributions of insurance status and supply of health professionals on coverage of antihypertensive treatment among adults in Mexico... - Why is the developed world obese?Sara Bleich
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Annu Rev Public Health 29:273-95. 2008..This review offers useful insights to future research concerned with the etiology of obesity and suggests that obesity-related policies should focus on encouraging lower caloric intake... - Increasing consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages among US adults: 1988-1994 to 1999-2004Sara N Bleich
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 89:372-81. 2009..Consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) has been linked to obesity and type 2 diabetes... - How does satisfaction with the health-care system relate to patient experience?Sara N Bleich
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
Bull World Health Organ 87:271-8. 2009..To explore what determines people's satisfaction with the health-care system above and beyond their experience as patients... - Developing policy solutions for a more active nation: Integrating economic and public health perspectivesSara N Bleich
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 N Broadway, Room 451, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Prev Med 49:306-8. 2009..In addition, we focus mostly on normative economics (which offers prescriptions for what should be done) rather than positive economics (which offers predictions of economic outcomes conditional on various hypothetical scenarios)... - Patient use of weight-management activities: a comparison of patient and physician assessmentsSara N Bleich
Department of Health Policy and Management, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Patient Educ Couns 79:344-50. 2010..Examine concordance between patient and physician assessments of patient self-reported use of weight-management activities... 
Trust in scientific experts on obesity: implications for awareness and behavior changeSara Bleich
Program in Health Policy, Harvard University, MA, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 15:2145-56. 2007....- Racial disparities in medical expenditures within body weight categoriesSai Ma
Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Gen Intern Med 27:780-6. 2012..Despite federal guidelines calling for the reduction of obesity and elimination of health disparities, black-white differences in obesity prevalence and in medical expenditures and utilization of health care services persist... - Increasing caloric contribution from sugar-sweetened beverages and 100% fruit juices among US children and adolescents, 1988-2004Y Claire Wang
Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management, 600 West 168th St, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10032, USA
Pediatrics 121:e1604-14. 2008..We sought to document increases in caloric contributions from sugar-sweetened beverages and 100% fruit juice among US youth during 1988-2004... - Physician respect for patients with obesityMary Margaret Huizinga
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 2024 East Monument Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Gen Intern Med 24:1236-9. 2009..Obesity stigma is common in our society, and a general stigma towards obesity has also been documented in physicians. We hypothesized that physician respect for patients would be lower in patients with higher body mass index (BMI)...