Virginia W ChangSummaryAffiliation: University of Chicago Country: USA Publications
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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...- 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... - 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... - 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... - 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...