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| Ming WenSummaryAffiliation: University of Utah Country: USA Publications
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Spatial disparities in the distribution of parks and green spaces in the USAMing Wen
Department of Sociology, University of Utah, Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Ann Behav Med 45:S18-27. 2013..Little national evidence is available on spatial disparities in distributions of parks and green spaces in the USA...- The built environment and risk of obesity in the United States: racial-ethnic disparitiesMing Wen
Department of Sociology, University of Utah, 380 S 1530 E RM 301, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, United States
Health Place 18:1314-22. 2012..Neighborhood walkability, density, and distance to parks are significant covariates of obesity risks net of individual and neighborhood controls. Gender differences are found for some of these associations... - Sex and ethnic differences in validity of self-reported adult height, weight and body mass indexMing Wen
Department of Sociology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Ethn Dis 22:72-8. 2012.... 
Child development in rural China: children left behind by their migrant parents and children of nonmigrant familiesMing Wen
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Child Dev 83:120-36. 2012..These influences largely remain constant for the sampled children regardless of their parents' migrant status...- Social contexts of regular smoking in adolescence: towards a multidimensional ecological modelMing Wen
Department of Sociology, University of Utah, 380 S 1530 E RM 301, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, United States
J Adolesc 32:671-92. 2009..An ecological model incorporating multiple social systems seems more fruitful than single-system models to reveal etiology of adolescent smoking... - Contextual effects of built and social environments of urban neighborhoods on exercise: a multilevel study in ChicagoMing Wen
Department of Sociology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Am J Health Promot 23:247-54. 2009..Examine the contextual effects of neighborhood built and social environments on exercise... - Neighborhood effects on health among migrants and natives in Shanghai, ChinaMing Wen
Department of Sociology University of Utah, 380 S 1530 E RM 301, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 0250, USA
Health Place 16:452-60. 2010..Relative to SES indicators, perceived loneliness and stress are more directly associated with health. Study limitations and future research direction are discussed in the end... - Latino residential isolation and the risk of obesity in Utah: the role of neighborhood socioeconomic, built-environmental, and subcultural contextMing Wen
Department of Sociology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
J Immigr Minor Health 13:1134-41. 2011.... - The effects of childhood, adult, and community socioeconomic conditions on health and mortality among older adults in ChinaMing Wen
Department of Sociology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Demography 48:153-81. 2011..We discuss our findings in the context of the life course and ecological perspective, emphasizing that human development is influenced by a nexus of social experiences that impact individuals throughout life... 
Racial and ethnic differences in general health status and limiting health conditions among American children: parental reports in the 1999 national survey of America's familiesMing Wen
Department of Sociology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Ethn Health 12:401-22. 2007..Two child health outcomes, including parent-rated health and limiting health condition, are examined. The analysis is stratified into three age groups: age 0-5, age 6-11, and age 12-17...- Walking for transportation or leisure: what difference does the neighborhood make?Ming Wen
Department of Sociology, University of Utah, Salt Lake, UT, USA
J Gen Intern Med 22:1674-80. 2007..Patients are often advised to initiate a physical activity program by walking for transportation or leisure. This study explored whether neighborhood factors beyond the individual might affect compliance... - Effect of specific aspects of community social environment on the mortality of individuals diagnosed with serious illnessMing Wen
Department of Sociology, University of Utah, 380 S 1530 E RM 301, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 0250, USA
Soc Sci Med 61:1119-34. 2005.... - Objective and perceived neighborhood environment, individual SES and psychosocial factors, and self-rated health: an analysis of older adults in Cook County, IllinoisMing Wen
Department of Sociology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 0250, USA
Soc Sci Med 63:2575-90. 2006..In sum, the research supports a model in which the effects of neighborhood SES on self-rated health act through sequential pathways of individual SES, perceptions of neighborhood quality, and psychosocial status... - Prospective effect of community distress and subcultural orientation on mortality following life-threatening diseases in later lifeMing Wen
Department of Sociology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 0250, USA
Sociol Health Illn 28:558-82. 2006..The social, economic, physical and cultural environment in which people live appears to exert a significant impact on whether older people facing life-threatening illness live or die... - Poverty, affluence, and income inequality: neighborhood economic structure and its implications for healthMing Wen
Department of Sociology, University of Utah, 3805 1530E RM30, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Soc Sci Med 57:843-60. 2003.... - Explaining variation in health status across space and time: implications for racial and ethnic disparities in self-rated healthChristopher R Browning
Department of Sociology, The Ohio State University, 300 Bricker Hall, 190 N Oval Mall, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
Soc Sci Med 57:1221-35. 2003.... - Neighborhood effects on posthospitalization mortality: a population-based cohort study of the elderly in ChicagoMing Wen
Department of Sociology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Health Serv Res 40:1108-27. 2005..Myocardial infarction in particular may be a "neighborhood sensitive" condition. Individuals' health may depend not just on individuals' characteristics but also on their neighborhoods'... - Air pollution shortens life expectancy and health expectancy for older adults: the case of ChinaMing Wen
Department of Sociology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 67:1219-29. 2012.... - A multi-level analysis of urban/rural and socioeconomic differences in functional health status transition among older ChineseZachary Zimmer
University of Utah, Institute of Public and International Affairs and Department of Sociology, 260 S Central Campus Drive, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, United States
Soc Sci Med 71:559-67. 2010.... - Cross-border utilization of health care: evidence from a population-based study in south TexasDejun Su
Department of Sociology, University of Texas Pan American, 1201 West University Drive, Edinburg, TX 78541, USA
Health Serv Res 46:859-76. 2011..To assess the prevalence of health care utilization in Mexico by Texas border residents and to identify the main contributing factors to their cross-border utilization of health care services... - Racial disparities in self-rated health at older ages: what difference does the neighborhood make?Kathleen A Cagney
Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago, 5841 S Maryland Ave, MC 2007, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 60:S181-90. 2005..We ask whether neighborhood social and economic resources help to explain the self-reported health differential between African Americans and Whites... - Immigrant perceptions of discrimination in health care: the California Health Interview Survey 2003Diane S Lauderdale
Department of Health Studies University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Med Care 44:914-20. 2006..Previous research about discrimination has focused on race/ethnicity. Because immigrants are clustered in certain racial and ethnic groups, failure to consider immigration status could distort race/ethnicity effects... - Complementary and alternative medicine among advanced cancer patients enrolled on phase I trials: a study of prognosis, quality of life, and preferences for decision makingFay J Hlubocky
Department of Medicine, Section of Hematology Oncology, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, The Cancer Research Center, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
J Clin Oncol 25:548-54. 2007..We sought to describe complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) usage among phase I trial participants and to describe these patients' treatment decision-making preferences, awareness of prognosis, survival, and quality of life...
Research Grants
- Neighborhood Built and Social Environment and Physical Activity and Weight StatusMing Wen; Fiscal Year: 2010..Given the rising tide of the obesity epidemic in the United States, research, strategies and programs for weight maintenance and weight reduction have become a high public health priority in the recent decade. ..
- The Effects of Community Social and Built Environment on Physical ActivityMing Wen; Fiscal Year: 2007..environment and social environment at the community level?; and 5) How are the above relationships sensitive to geographic aggregation levels of community? What are the most appropriate aggregation levels relevant to physical activity? ..