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Quality of care among obese patientsVirginia W Chang
Philadelphia VA Medical Center, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6021, USA
JAMA 303:1274-81. 2010..Moreover, obese patients often feel that clinicians are biased or disrespectful because of their weight. These observations raise the concern that obese patients may receive lower quality of care...
Fundamental cause theory, technological innovation, and health disparities: the case of cholesterol in the era of statinsVirginia W Chang
Department of Medecine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6021, USA
J Health Soc Behav 50:245-60. 2009..We find that the influence of technologies on socioeconomic disparities is subject to two important modifiers: (1) the nature of the technological change and (2) the extent of its diffusion and adoption...
Income disparities in body mass index and obesity in the United States, 1971-2002Virginia W Chang
Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Philadelphia VAMC, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia 19104 6021, USA
Arch Intern Med 165:2122-8. 2005..Although obesity is frequently associated with poverty, recent increases in obesity may not occur disproportionately among the poor. Furthermore, the relationship between income and weight status may be changing with time...- Racial residential segregation and weight status among US adultsVirginia W Chang
Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Philadelphia VAMC, USA
Soc Sci Med 63:1289-303. 2006..These findings suggest that in addition to differences among people, differences among places and, in particular, differences in the spatial organization of persons may be relevant to health policy and promotion efforts... - Social capital and glucose controlJudith A Long
Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, 1201 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6021, USA
J Community Health 35:519-26. 2010..No other measure of social capital was associated with HbA1c. In this study of black veterans with diabetes we observed that living in neighborhoods where people work together is associated with better glucose control... - The relationship between measured performance and satisfaction with care among clinically complex patientsRachel M Werner
Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
J Gen Intern Med 23:1729-35. 2008.... - Weight status and restaurant availability a multilevel analysisNeil K Mehta
Graduate Group in Demography, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
Am J Prev Med 34:127-33. 2008..An important change to this environment is the increasing availability of away-from-home eating establishments such as restaurants... - The changing relationship of obesity and disability, 1988-2004Dawn E Alley
Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Program, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6218, USA
JAMA 298:2020-7. 2007..However, whether these improvements have conferred decreased risk for disability is unknown. The obese population may be living longer with better-controlled risk factors but paradoxically experiencing more disability... - Prevalence and trends in obesity among aged and disabled U.S. Medicare beneficiaries, 1997-2002Jalpa A Doshi
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 26:1111-7. 2007..4 percent and 32.5 percent, respectively, in 1997. Using 2002 data, we estimate that three million beneficiaries would be eligible for bariatric surgery coverage under current Medicare policy... - Income inequality and weight status in US metropolitan areasVirginia W Chang
Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Philadelphia VAMC, USA
Soc Sci Med 61:83-96. 2005..Although our findings are suggestive of a contextual effect of metropolitan area income inequality, we do not find an increased risk for unhealthy weight outcomes, adding to recent debates surrounding this topic... - Update on the health disparities literatureJudith A Long
Veterans Affairs Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
Ann Intern Med 141:805-12. 2004 - Racial differences in the impact of comorbidities on survival among elderly men with prostate cancerMary Putt
Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104, USA
Med Care Res Rev 66:409-35. 2009..Adjusting for treatment had little impact on these results, despite variation in the racial difference in receipt of prostatectomy with differing comorbidity levels... - The shape of things to come: obesity, aging, and disabilityDawn E Alley
Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
LDI Issue Brief 13:1-4. 2008..This issue Brief summarizes two studies that examine the prevalence of obesity over time in the elderly and disabled, and the changing relationship of obesity and disability... - The lack of effect of market structure on hospice useTheodore J Iwashyna
Department of Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, USA
Health Serv Res 37:1531-51. 2002.... - Self-perception of weight appropriateness in the United StatesVirginia W Chang
Department of Sociology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Am J Prev Med 24:332-9. 2003..BACKGROUND; The self-perception of weight appropriateness is an important component of eating and weight-loss behaviors. Self-perceived weight status, however, is not fully explained by objective weight status... - Racial and ethnic differences in place of death: United States, 1993Theodore J Iwashyna
School of Medicine, Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, Center on Aging and Population Research Center, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 50:1113-7. 2002..To examine racial and ethnic differences in place of death, adjusting for likely confounders... - Trends in the association of poverty with overweight among US adolescents, 1971-2004Richard A Miech
Department of Mental Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
JAMA 295:2385-93. 2006..Whether socioeconomic disparities in adolescent overweight increased, decreased, or remained constant during this period is not known...
Research Grants
- Dynamic relationship of BMI and SES over the life cycle and between generationsVirginia Chang; Fiscal Year: 2007....
- Dynamic relationship of BMI and SES over the life cycle and between generationsVirginia W Chang; Fiscal Year: 2010....