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| Catherine CubbinSummaryAffiliation: University of California Country: USA Publications
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Neighborhood context and youth cardiovascular health behaviorsRebecca E Lee
Stanford Center for Research in Disease Prevention, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Am J Public Health 92:428-36. 2002....
Neighborhood deprivation and cardiovascular disease risk factors: protective and harmful effectsCatherine Cubbin
Center on Social Disparities in Health, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143 0900, USA
Scand J Public Health 34:228-37. 2006..To determine whether neighborhood-level deprivation is independently associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) health behaviors/risk factors in the Swedish population...
Is neighborhood deprivation independently associated with maternal and infant health? Evidence from Florida and WashingtonCatherine Cubbin
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, 500 Parnassus Avenue, MU 3E, Box 0900, San Francisco, CA, 94143 0900, USA
Matern Child Health J 12:61-74. 2008....
Neighborhood context and sexual behaviors among adolescents: findings from the national longitudinal study of adolescent healthCatherine Cubbin
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
Perspect Sex Reprod Health 37:125-34. 2005..Associations between neighborhood characteristics and adolescents' initiation of sex and contraceptive use are poorly understood...
Protective and harmful effects of neighborhood-level deprivation on individual-level health knowledge, behavior changes, and risk of coronary heart diseaseCatherine Cubbin
Stanford Prevention Research Center, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Am J Epidemiol 162:559-68. 2005..These results suggest that focusing exclusively on changing individuals' behaviors will have a limited effect unless contextual influences at the neighborhood level are also addressed...
Effect of cross-level interaction between individual and neighborhood socioeconomic status on adult mortality ratesMarilyn Winkleby
Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, Calif 94305 5705, USA
Am J Public Health 96:2145-53. 2006..We examined whether the influence of neighborhood-level socioeconomic status (SES) on mortality differed by individual-level SES...
Socioeconomic status in health research: one size does not fit allPaula A Braveman
Center on Social Disparities in Health and Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco 94143 0900, USA
JAMA 294:2879-88. 2005..Better SES measures are needed in data sources, but improvements could be made by using existing information more thoughtfully and acknowledging its limitations...
An approach to studying social disparities in health and health carePaula A Braveman
Center on Social Disparities in Health, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143 0900, USA
Am J Public Health 94:2139-48. 2004..We explored methods and potential applications of a systematic approach to studying and monitoring social disparities in health and health care...
Women's perceptions of neighborhood resources and hazards related to diet, physical activity, and smoking: focus group results from economically distinct neighborhoods in a mid-sized U.S. cityIrene H Yen
Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, 3333 California Street Suite 335, San Francisco, CA 94143 0856, USA
Am J Health Promot 22:98-106. 2007..To investigate women's perceptions of neighborhood resources and hazards associated with poor diet, physical inactivity, and cigarette smoking...
Socioeconomic disparities in adverse birth outcomes: a systematic reviewPhilip Blumenshine
Center on Social Disparities in Health, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94118, USA
Am J Prev Med 39:263-72. 2010....
Socioeconomic disparities in health in the United States: what the patterns tell usPaula A Braveman
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 3333 California St, Suite 365, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA
Am J Public Health 100:S186-96. 2010..We aimed to describe socioeconomic disparities in the United States across multiple health indicators and socioeconomic groups...
Potential implications of missing income data in population-based surveys: an example from a postpartum survey in CaliforniaSoowon Kim
Center on Social Disparities in Health, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 500 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco, CA 94143 0900, USA
Public Health Rep 122:753-63. 2007..To explore the implications of excluding records with missing income, we examined characteristics of survey participants with and without income information...
Neighbourhood deprivation and alcohol consumption: does the availability of alcohol play a role?Craig Evan Pollack
Division of General Internal Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
Int J Epidemiol 34:772-80. 2005..This study tests the relationships between neighbourhood-level deprivation, alcohol availability, and individual-level alcohol consumption using a multilevel analysis...
Inequities in CHD incidence and case fatality by neighborhood deprivationMarilyn Winkleby
Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California 94305 5705, USA
Am J Prev Med 32:97-106. 2007..Research has not firmly established whether living in a deprived neighborhood predicts the incidence and case fatality of coronary heart disease (CHD), and whether effects vary across sociodemographic groups...
Food availability, personal constraints, and community resourcesCatherine Cubbin
Center on Social Disparities in Health, University of California San Francisco, Department of Family and Community Medicine, California 94143-0900, USA
J Epidemiol Community Health 61:932. 2007
Changing patterns in health behaviors and risk factors related to chronic diseases, 1990-2000Marilyn A Winkleby
Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, 211 Quarry Road, Room N229, Stanford, CA 94305 5705, USA
Am J Health Promot 19:19-27. 2004..Assess changes in chronic disease-related health behaviors and risk factors from 1990 to 2000, by race/ethnicity, age, and gender...
Socioeconomic and racial/ethnic disparities in unintended pregnancy among postpartum women in CaliforniaCatherine Cubbin
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
Matern Child Health J 6:237-46. 2002....
Effects of neighbourhood socioeconomic status and convenience store concentration on individual level smokingYing Chih Chuang
Graduate Institute of Public Health, Taipei Medical University, 250 Wu Hsing Street, Taipei, Taiwan
J Epidemiol Community Health 59:568-73. 2005..To assess the effects of neighbourhood level socioeconomic status (SES) and convenience store concentration on individual level smoking, after consideration of individual level characteristics...
Socioeconomic status and breastfeeding initiation among California mothersKatherine E Heck
National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hyattsville, MD, USA
Public Health Rep 121:51-9. 2006..Objectives. To examine multiple dimensions of socioeconomic status and breastfeeding among a large, random sample of ethnically diverse women...
Optimal SES indicators cannot be prescribed across all outcomesPaula Braveman
Am J Public Health 93:12-3; author reply 13. 2003
Changes in neighbourhood food store environment, food behaviour and body mass index, 1981--1990May C Wang
School of Public Health and the Center for Weight and Health, University of California at Berkeley, 2180 Dwight Way Unit C, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA
Public Health Nutr 11:963-70. 2008....
Contribution of neighbourhood socioeconomic status and physical activity resources to physical activity among womenRebecca E Lee
Health and Human Performance, University of Houston, Garrison Gym 104E, Houston, TX 77204, USA
J Epidemiol Community Health 61:882-90. 2007..This study aimed to investigate whether access to physical activity resources mediated the relationship between neighbourhood socioeconomic status and physical activity among women...
Should health studies measure wealth? A systematic reviewCraig Evan Pollack
Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Am J Prev Med 33:250-64. 2007..In order to determine whether health research should more frequently include measures of wealth, this study assessed the relationship between wealth and health...
Socioeconomic inequalities in injury: critical issues in design and analysisCatherine Cubbin
Stanford Center for Research in Disease Prevention, Stanford University School of Medicine, 1000 Welch Road, Palo Alto, California 94304 1825, USA
Annu Rev Public Health 23:349-75. 2002..We offer potential explanatory mechanisms for the relationship between SES and injuries and make recommendations for future research in this area...
