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| Stephanie A RobertSummaryAffiliation: University of Wisconsin Country: USA Publications
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US opinions on health determinants and social policy as health policyStephanie A Robert
School of Social Work, University of Wisconsin Madison, 53706, USA
Am J Public Health 101:1655-63. 2011..Increasing public knowledge about social determinants of health and mobilizing less advantaged groups may be useful in addressing broad determinants of health...
Socioeconomic risk factors for breast cancer: distinguishing individual- and community-level effectsStephanie A Robert
School of Social Work, Center for Demography of Health and Aging, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin Madison, 53706, USA
Epidemiology 15:442-50. 2004..We examined whether women living in such communities remained at greater risk of breast cancer after controlling for individual education and other known individual-level risk factors...- A multilevel analysis of race, community disadvantage, and body mass index among adults in the USStephanie A Robert
School of Social Work, University of Wisconsin Madison, 1350 University Ave, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Soc Sci Med 59:2421-34. 2004..Because our evidence for women suggests that the determinants of obesity are multiple and multilevel, attempts to address this growing social problem will similarly require a multi-faceted and multilevel approach... - Racial segregation and health disparities between Black and White older adultsStephanie A Robert
School of Social Work, University of Wisconsin Madison, 1350 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706, USA
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 61:S203-11. 2006..In this study, we examined whether racial segregation is associated with poorer self-rated health among older adults, and whether racial segregation helps explain race disparities in self-rated health between Black and White older adults... - Socioeconomic status and age variations in health-related quality of life: results from the national health measurement studyStephanie A Robert
School of Social Work, University of Wisconsin Madison, 1350 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706, USA
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 64:378-89. 2009..We examine whether multiple health-related quality of life (HRQoL) measures are stratified by socioeconomic status (SES) and age in the United States... 
Potential exposure to PCBs, DDT, and PBDEs from sport-caught fish consumption in relation to breast cancer risk in WisconsinJane A McElroy
University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center, Madison, 53726, USA
Environ Health Perspect 112:156-62. 2004..16-2.50). In this study we found no overall association between recent consumption of sport-caught fish and breast cancer, although there may be an increased breast cancer risk for subgroups of women who are young and/or premenopausal...- Socioeconomic status and survival after an invasive breast cancer diagnosisBrian L Sprague
University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Cancer 117:1542-51. 2011..However, very few studies have examined individual-level SES in relation to breast cancer survival or have assessed the contextual role of community-level SES independent of individual-level SES... - Racial disparities in health-related quality of life in a cohort of very low birthweight 2- and 3-year-olds with and without cerebral palsyBeth Marie McManus
University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI 53726, USA
Dev Med Child Neurol 53:467-9. 2011..Living in a neighborhood with lowest levels of female education is associated with lower HRQoL (mean difference -5.6, 95% CI: -9.2 to -2.1), but does not explain the racial difference in HRQoL... - Awareness of racial and socioeconomic health disparities in the United States: the national opinion survey on health and health disparities, 2008-2009Bridget C Booske
University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Population Health Sciences, 610 Walnut Street, Madison, WI 53726, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 8:A73. 2011.... - Geocoding addresses from a large population-based study: lessons learnedJane A McElroy
Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53726, USA
Epidemiology 14:399-407. 2003..The goal of this project was to develop an iterative geocoding process that would achieve a high match rate in a large population-based health study... 
Relationship between neighborhood disadvantage and social function of Wisconsin 2- and 3-year-olds born at very low birth weightBeth Marie McManus
School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin Madison, 610 Walnut Street, Madison, WI 53726, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 165:119-25. 2011....- Public views on determinants of health, interventions to improve health, and priorities for governmentStephanie A Robert
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53726, USA
WMJ 107:124-30. 2008..We surveyed Wisconsin adults to see what they think are the most important factors that affect health. We also examined which interventions they believe would improve health, and whether government should prioritize such interventions... - Subjective and objective neighborhood characteristics and adult healthMargaret M Weden
RAND Corporation, Labor and Population, 1776 Main Street, P O Box 2138, Santa Monica, CA 90407 2138, USA
Soc Sci Med 66:1256-70. 2008..Our results demonstrate the independent associations between both objective and perceived neighborhood quality and health, and highlight the particularly strong association between perceived neighborhood quality and health... - Message design strategies to raise public awareness of social determinants of health and population health disparitiesJeff Niederdeppe
Department of Communication, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 4203, USA
Milbank Q 86:481-513. 2008..Raising public awareness of the importance of social determinants of health (SDH) and health disparities presents formidable communication challenges... - Workplace support, role overload, and job satisfaction of direct care workers in assisted livingRita Jing Ann Chou
College of Social Work, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA
J Health Soc Behav 49:208-22. 2008..Enhancing job satisfaction of assisted living direct care workers will likely require a multipronged approach that includes improving institutional, supervisor, and coworker support while simultaneously directly addressing role overload...
Research Grants
- Community Context & Health Over the Life CourseStephanie Robert; Fiscal Year: 2005..abstract_text> ..