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| Thomas LaVeistSummaryAffiliation: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Country: USA Publications
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Health risk and inequitable distribution of liquor stores in African American neighborhoodT A LaVeist
Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Soc Sci Med 51:613-7. 2000..More research needs to be done on the impact of alcohol on the social, psychological, and physiological health of low income urban populations...- Disentangling race and socioeconomic status: a key to understanding health inequalitiesThomas A LaVeist
Center for Health Disparities Solutions, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Urban Health 82:iii26-34. 2005.... - Mistrust of health care organizations is associated with underutilization of health servicesThomas A LaVeist
Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 N Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Health Serv Res 44:2093-105. 2009..We report the validation of an instrument to measure mistrust of health care organizations and examine the relationship between mistrust and health care service underutilization... - The association of doctor-patient race concordance with health services utilizationThomas A LaVeist
Center for Health Disparities Solutions, and Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
J Public Health Policy 24:312-23. 2003..Adjusting the models for health status and a variety of other known predictors of health care utilization did not substantially affect the relationship between doctor-patient race concordance and health services use... - Exploring health disparities in integrated communities: overview of the EHDIC studyThomas LaVeist
Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 N Broadway Suite 441, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Urban Health 85:11-21. 2008..Future research in the area of health disparities should seek ways to account for confounding from SES and segregation... - Overcoming confounding of race with socio-economic status and segregation to explore race disparities in smokingThomas A LaVeist
Department of Health, Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205 1999, USA
Addiction 102:65-70. 2007..Also, we sought to determine the generalizability of our sample... - Estimating the economic burden of racial health inequalities in the United StatesThomas A LaVeist
Department of Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkin University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Int J Health Serv 41:231-8. 2011..We should address health disparities because such inequities are inconsistent with the values of our society and addressing them is the right thing to do, but this analysis shows that social justice can also be cost effective... - Prevalence and patterns of discrimination among U.S. health care consumersThomas A LaVeist
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Int J Health Serv 33:331-44. 2003..Low-income individuals experienced class discrimination, women experienced sex discrimination, and individuals who reported being in poor health were more likely to perceive discrimination based on health or disability status... - The cardiac access longitudinal study. A study of access to invasive cardiology among African American and white patientsThomas A LaVeist
Center for Health Disparities Solutions, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
J Am Coll Cardiol 41:1159-66. 2003..We sought to identify factors contributing to racial disparity in the receipt of coronary angiography (CA)... - Is doctor-patient race concordance associated with greater satisfaction with care?Thomas A LaVeist
Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management, 624 North Broadway, Room 441, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
J Health Soc Behav 43:296-306. 2002..These findings suggest support for the continuation of efforts to increase the number of minority physicians, while placing greater emphasis on improving the ability of physicians to interact with patients who are not of their own race... - Race of physician and satisfaction with care among African-American patientsThomas A LaVeist
Center for Health Disparities Solutions, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Natl Med Assoc 94:937-43. 2002..And, patients who were race concordant reported higher levels of satisfaction with care compared with African American patients that were not race concordant... - Attitudes about racism, medical mistrust, and satisfaction with care among African American and white cardiac patientsT A LaVeist
Johns Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Med Care Res Rev 57:146-61. 2000..When perceived racism and medical mistrust were controlled, race was no longer a significant predictor of satisfaction... - Minority health status in adulthood: the middle years of lifeT A LaVeist
Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, USA
Health Care Financ Rev 21:9-21. 2000..Also discussed are the current state of scholarship in minority health and suggestions for future directions for research on racial and ethnic differences in health status... - Perceived racism and self and system blame attribution: consequences for longevityT A LaVeist
Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Ethn Dis 11:711-21. 2001..43, CI 95: .23, .82). The findings suggest that the attribution of negative events to external factors, such as systemic societal racism, rather than to individual characteristics, may be adaptive and protective of health status... - The COA360: a tool for assessing the cultural competency of healthcare organizationsThomas A LaVeist
William C and Nancy F Richardson Professor in Health Policy, Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
J Healthc Manag 53:257-66; discussion 266-7. 2008..Our conclusion points to the validity of the COA360. As such, it is a valuable tool not only for assessing a healthcare organization's cultural readiness but also for benchmarking its progress in addressing cultural and diversity issues... - Environmental and socio-economic factors as contributors to racial disparities in diabetes prevalenceThomas A LaVeist
Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 N Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Gen Intern Med 24:1144-8. 2009.... - Explaining racial differences in receipt of coronary angiography: the role of physician referral and physician specialtyThomas A LaVeist
Johns Hopkins University, USA
Med Care Res Rev 60:453-67; discussion 496-508. 2003..4, p < .05). Researchers must eliminate racial differences in access to specialty care and variation in referral patterns by physician specialty, and efforts must be targeted to those specialties where greater disparities exist... - Understanding disparities in donor behavior: race and gender differences in willingness to donate blood and cadaveric organsL Ebony Boulware
Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
Med Care 40:85-95. 2002..Potential donor concerns regarding mistrust in hospitals and religion/spirituality may serve as important issues to address when developing programs to improve donation rates... - Determinants of willingness to donate living related and cadaveric organs: identifying opportunities for interventionL Ebony Boulware
Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Transplantation 73:1683-91. 2002..Efforts to improve organ donation rates should be directed toward factors that are most important in explaining the existing variation in willingness to donate... - The legacy of Tuskegee and trust in medical care: is Tuskegee responsible for race differences in mistrust of medical care?Dwayne T Brandon
Center for Health Disparities Solutions, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Natl Med Assoc 97:951-6. 2005..Rather, race differences in mistrust likely stem from broader historical and personal experiences... - Healthy aging in neighborhoods of diversity across the life span (HANDLS): overcoming barriers to implementing a longitudinal, epidemiologic, urban study of health, race, and socioeconomic statusMichele K Evans
National Institute on Aging Intramural Research Program, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD 21224 2816, USA
Ethn Dis 20:267-75. 2010..Examine the influences of race, socioeconomic status, sex, and age on barriers to participation in a study of cross-sectional differences and longitudinal changes in health-related outcomes... - Perceived discrimination and adherence to medical care in a racially integrated communitySarah Stark Casagrande
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Gen Intern Med 22:389-95. 2007..Past research indicates that access to health care and utilization of services varies by sociodemographic characteristics, but little is known about racial differences in health care utilization within racially integrated communities... - Physician referral patterns and race differences in receipt of coronary angiographyThomas A LaVeist
Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Health Serv Res 37:949-62. 2002..Thus, future research should seek to better understand the process by which the decision is made to refer or not refer patients... - Do hospitals provide lower-quality care to minorities than to whites?Darrell J Gaskin
African American Studies Department, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 27:518-27. 2008..Only a few hospitals provide lower quality of care to minorities than to whites... - Social context as an explanation for race disparities in hypertension: findings from the Exploring Health Disparities in Integrated Communities (EHDIC) StudyRoland J Thorpe
Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, United States
Soc Sci Med 67:1604-11. 2008..0% and 34% smaller in the EHDIC-SWB sample. We conclude that social and environmental exposures explained a substantial proportion of the race difference in hypertension... - Cancer prevention behaviors in low-income urban whites: an understudied problemJanice V Bowie
Center for Health Disparities Solutions, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Urban Health 86:861-71. 2009..Findings illustrate the need for further examination of health behaviors in low SES white urban populations who may share health risks with their poor minority urban counterparts... - Race and trust in the health care systemL Ebony Boulware
Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Public Health Rep 118:358-65. 2003.... - Race/Ethnicity and hypertension: the role of social supportCaryn N Bell
Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Am J Hypertens 23:534-40. 2010..The objective of this study was to determine whether the relationship between race/ethnicity and hypertension varied by level of social support... - 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... - Intersections of ethnicity and social class in provider advice regarding reproductive healthRoberta A Downing
Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
Am J Public Health 97:1803-7. 2007.... - The sociobiologic integrative model (SBIM): enhancing the integration of sociobehavioral, environmental, and biomolecular knowledge in urban health and disparities researchM Chris Gibbons
Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Urban Health 84:198-211. 2007..This paper suggests a sociobiologic organizing model that encourages a multilevel, integrative perspective in the study of urban health and health disparities... - Whole body donation for medical science: a population-based studyL Ebony Boulware
Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Clin Anat 17:570-7. 2004..Efforts to enhance donation should seek to identify ways in which potential barriers to donation can be addressed by health professionals... - Neighborhood characteristics and mental health among African Americans and whites living in a racially integrated urban communityTiffany L Gary
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N Wolfe St Rm E6531, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Health Place 13:569-75. 2007..05). Community cohesion, the perception that people generally work together, was associated with better mental health among whites only. These findings give further insight into the complex environment of inner-city communities... - The College Health and Wellness Study: baseline correlates of overweight among African AmericansTiffany L Gary
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA
J Urban Health 83:253-65. 2006..Overweight is a significant problem in this population, and these data should be useful for developing weight loss interventions aimed at young adults... - Place, not race: disparities dissipate in southwest Baltimore when blacks and whites live under similar conditionsThomas LaVeist
Center for Health Disparities Solutions and the William C and Nancy F Richardson Professor in Health Policy at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, in Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 30:1880-7. 2011..Such policies must address the differing resources of neighborhoods and must aim to improve the underlying conditions of health for all... - Excess risk of chronic kidney disease among African-American versus white subjects in the United States: a population-based study of potential explanatory factorsMichelle E Tarver-Carr
Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
J Am Soc Nephrol 13:2363-70. 2002..Nearly one-half of the excess risk of CKD among African-American adults can be explained on the basis of potentially modifiable risk factors; however, much of the excess risk remains unexplained... - Community-based health preferences for proctocolectomy: a race comparisonGeoffrey C Nguyen
Harvey M and Lyn P Meyerhoff Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Dig Dis Sci 53:741-6. 2008..32) was also similar to that in whites (0.54 +/- 0.32). We conclude that patient preferences for proctocolectomy are unlikely to be a dominant contributing factor to racial disparities in total proctocolectomy for diseases of the colon... - Racial segregation and longevity among African Americans: an individual-level analysisThomas A LaVeist
John Hopkins University, Morgan-Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Health Serv Res 38:1719-33. 2003..CONCLUSION: The results support previous studies linking segregation with health outcomes... - Race is a predictor of in-hospital mortality after cholecystectomy, especially in those with portal hypertensionGeoffrey C Nguyen
Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 6:1146-54. 2008..In this study, we characterized racial disparities in in-hospital mortality after cholecystectomy among patients with and without decompensated cirrhosis... - Race and health insurance are predictors of hospitalized Crohn's disease patients undergoing bowel resectionGeoffrey C Nguyen
Harvey M and Lyn P Meyerhoff Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Inflamm Bowel Dis 13:1408-16. 2007..Crohn's disease (CD) is a chronically relapsing disorder that leads to significant morbidity and, in most cases, surgery. Our objective was to characterize health disparities in CD-related bowel resection among hospitalized CD patients... - Racial and geographic variations in colectomy rates among hospitalized ulcerative colitis patientsGeoffrey C Nguyen
Harvey M and Lyn P Meyerhoff Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21231, USA
Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 4:1507-1513. 2006..Racial disparities have been described for a wide spectrum of surgical procedures. The goal of this study was to characterize racial and geographic differences in colectomy rates among hospitalized ulcerative colitis (UC) patients... - Racial disparities in access to cardiac rehabilitationPatricia C Gregory
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Am J Phys Med Rehabil 85:705-10. 2006..The decreased utilization of such services in this population could lead to further disparity in cardiac outcomes. Future studies should address ways to eliminate this disparity and increase referral to such services... - Gender differences in body image and health perceptions among graduating seniors from a historically black collegeSusan M Gross
Morgan Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions, Program in Public Health, Morgan State University, USA
J Natl Med Assoc 97:1608-19. 2005..Awareness of acceptable weight ranges and consequences of overweight needs to be raised... - The responsibility continuum: never primary, coresident and caregiver--heterogeneity in the African-American grandmother experienceRosalyn D Lee
NORC, at The University of Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
Int J Aging Hum Dev 60:295-304. 2005..Policy and practice can be informed by additional research on status, context, and timing of assumption of responsibilities for grandchildren... - Racial and ethnic approaches to community health (REACH) 2010Collins O Airhihenbuwa
Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
Health Promot Pract 7:174S-5S. 2006 - The influence of race and religion on abstinence from alcohol, cigarettes and marijuana among adolescentsJohn M Wallace
University of Michigan School of Social Work and Institute for Social Research, 426 Thompson Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106 1248, USA
J Stud Alcohol 64:843-8. 2003..The present study tested this hypothesis empirically... - Patient reports of preventable problems and harms in primary health careAnton J Kuzel
Department of Family Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298, USA
Ann Fam Med 2:333-40. 2004..The principal aims of this study were to develop patient-focused typologies of medical errors and harms in primary care settings and to discern which medical errors and harms seem to be the most important... - Making the case for a qualitative study of medical errors in primary careAnton J Kuzel
Department of Family Practice, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA
Qual Health Res 13:743-80. 2003..The authors make explicit the anticipated concerns of reviewers more accustomed to quantitative research proposals and the arguments and strategies employed to address them...
Research Grants
- Analysis of the Cardiac Access StudyThomas LaVeist; Fiscal Year: 2003..abstract_text> ..