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| Sarah A BurgardSummaryAffiliation: University of Michigan Country: USA Publications
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Housing instability and health: findings from the Michigan Recession and Recovery StudySarah A Burgard
Department of Sociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 1382, USA
Soc Sci Med 75:2215-24. 2012..Our findings suggest the importance of considering multiple types of housing instability and using appropriate risk groups and comparison categories...- Perceived job insecurity and health: the Michigan Recession and Recovery StudySarah A Burgard
Department of Sociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 1382, USA
J Occup Environ Med 54:1101-6. 2012..To examine the association between perceived job insecurity in the next 12 months and current health with a sample representing working-aged employed adults in southeast Michigan in late 2009/early 2010 (n, 440 to 443)... 
Race and pregnancy-related care in Brazil and South AfricaSarah Burgard
Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, 1214 South University, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, USA
Soc Sci Med 59:1127-46. 2004....
Putting work to bed: stressful experiences on the job and sleep qualitySarah A Burgard
Department of Sociology, Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109 1382, USA
J Health Soc Behav 50:476-92. 2009..These findings are discussed in relation to the sociological literatures on work, stress, and emotion...- Community characteristics, sexual initiation, and condom use among young Black South AfricansSarah A Burgard
University of Michigan, Department of Sociology, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 1382, USA
J Health Soc Behav 50:293-309. 2009..We discuss these results and the ways they vary from predictions based on US. theory in light of conditions prevailing in contemporary South Africa... - Perceived job insecurity and worker health in the United StatesSarah A Burgard
Department of Sociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 48109 1382, United States
Soc Sci Med 69:777-85. 2009..Results are robust to controls for sociodemographic and job characteristics, negative reporting style, and earlier health and health behaviors... - Toward a better estimation of the effect of job loss on healthSarah A Burgard
University of Michigan, Department of Sociology, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 1382, USA
J Health Soc Behav 48:369-84. 2007..Job losses for other reasons have substantive and statistically significant effects on depressive symptoms, while effects on self-rated poor health are relatively small... - Trends and racial differences in infant mortality in South AfricaSarah A Burgard
Department of Sociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48104 2590, USA
Soc Sci Med 62:1126-37. 2006..These findings are discussed in light of contemporary social and health issues in South Africa... - Factors associated with contraceptive use in late- and post-apartheid South AfricaSarah Burgard
Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, University of Michigan School of Public Health, 1214 South University, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 2548, USA
Stud Fam Plann 35:91-104. 2004..Use of injectable contraceptives is also high among black and colored women, whereas injectables are not the primary method used by Indian or white women. These findings are discussed in light of their research and policy implications... - Downward social mobility and major depressive episodes among Latino and Asian-American immigrants to the United StatesEmily J Nicklett
Department of Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 2029, USA
Am J Epidemiol 170:793-801. 2009..Policies or interventions focused only on immigrants of low social status may miss another group at risk: those who experience downward mobility from a higher social status... - Couples' reports of household decision-making and the utilization of maternal health services in BangladeshWilliam T Story
Department of Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 2029, USA
Soc Sci Med 75:2403-11. 2012..Finally, associations between household decision-making arrangements and health service utilization vary depending on whose report is used and the type of health service utilized... - Husbands' involvement in delivery care utilization in rural Bangladesh: A qualitative studyWilliam T Story
Department of Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 2029, USA
BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 12:28. 2012..This qualitative study examines husbands' involvement during childbirth and professional delivery care utilization in a rural sub-district of Netrokona district, Bangladesh... - Body weight and health from early to mid-adulthood: a longitudinal analysisAnna Zajacova
Department of Sociology, University of Wyoming, Dept 3293, 1000 E University Ave, Laramie, WY 82071, USA
J Health Soc Behav 51:92-107. 2010..The findings provide new support for the cumulative disadvantage perspective, documenting the increasing health inequalities in a cohort of young adults... - Overweight adults may have the lowest mortality--do they have the best health?Anna Zajacova
Department of Sociology, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Wyoming, Laramie, USA
Am J Epidemiol 173:430-7. 2011..Prior results suggesting that the overweight BMI category corresponds to the lowest risk of mortality may not be generalizable to indicators of health risk...