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| Frederick J ZimmermanSummaryAffiliation: University of Washington Country: USA Publications
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Media as a public health issueDimitri A Christakis
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 160:445-6. 2006- Tinker, tailor, soldier, patient: work attributes and depression disparities among young adultsFrederick J Zimmerman
Department of Health Services, School of Public Health, University of Washington, USA
Soc Sci Med 58:1889-901. 2004..We conclude that part of the SES-depression relationship may arise from the psychosocial aspects of jobs, which we have found to be significantly and meaningfully associated with depressive symptoms among employed young adults... - Children's television viewing and cognitive outcomes: a longitudinal analysis of national dataFrederick J Zimmerman
Child Health Institute, and Department of Health Services, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 159:619-25. 2005..To test the independent effects of television viewing in children before age 3 years and at ages 3 to 5 years on several measures of cognitive outcomes at ages 6 and 7 years... - Associations between media viewing and language development in children under age 2 yearsFrederick J Zimmerman
Child Health Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98115, USA
J Pediatr 151:364-8. 2007..To test the association of media exposure with language development in children under age 2 years... - Socioeconomic status, depression disparities, and financial strain: what lies behind the income-depression relationship?Frederick J Zimmerman
Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle 98115 8160, USA
Health Econ 14:1197-215. 2005..Fixed-effects estimates suggest that employment status and financial strain are causally related to depression, but income is not. Instrumental variable estimates suggest that financial strain may not lead to depression... - Early cognitive stimulation, emotional support, and television watching as predictors of subsequent bullying among grade-school childrenFrederick J Zimmerman
Department of Health Services, Child Health Institute, University of Washington, 6200 NE 74th Street, Suite 210, Seattle, WA 98115 8160, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 159:384-8. 2005..Bullying is a major public health issue, the risk factors for which are poorly understood... - A commentary on "Neo-materialist theory and the temporal relationship between income inequality and longevity change"Frederick J Zimmerman
Department of Health Services, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Soc Sci Med 66:1882-94; discussion 1903-8. 2008 - Associations between content types of early media exposure and subsequent attentional problemsFrederick J Zimmerman
Child Health Institute, University of Washington, 6200 NE 74th St, Seattle, WA 98115, USA
Pediatrics 120:986-92. 2007..We tested the hypothesis that early television viewing of 3 content types is associated with subsequent attentional problems. The 3 different content types are educational, nonviolent entertainment, and violent entertainment... 
Income inequality and physical and mental health: testing associations consistent with proposed causal pathwaysFrederick J Zimmerman
Department of Health Services and Child Health Institute, 6200 NE 74th Street, Suite 210, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98115 8160, USA
J Epidemiol Community Health 60:513-21. 2006..To test associations between individual health outcomes and ecological variables proposed in causal models of relations between income inequality and health...- Television and DVD/video viewing in children younger than 2 yearsFrederick J Zimmerman
Child Health Institute, and Department of Health Services, University of Washington, and the Children s Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Seattle 98115, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 161:473-9. 2007..To determine the television-, DVD-, and video-viewing habits of children younger than 2 years... - On the standard gambleFrederick J Zimmerman
Department of Health Services and Child Health Institute, University of Washington, 6200 NE 74th St, Bldg 29, Seattle, WA 98115, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 157:225-7. 2003 
Audible television and decreased adult words, infant vocalizations, and conversational turns: a population-based studyDimitri A Christakis
Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development, 1100 Olive Way, Ste 500, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 163:554-8. 2009..To test the hypothesis that audible television is associated with decreased parent and child interactions...- Associations between residential segregation and smoking during pregnancy among urban African-American womenJanice F Bell
Child Health Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
J Urban Health 84:372-88. 2007..A better understanding of both deleterious and protective contextual influences on smoking during pregnancy could help to inform interventions designed to meet Healthy People 2010 target goals... - What factors are associated with achieving high continuity of care?Dimitri A Christakis
Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98115 8160, USA
Fam Med 36:55-60. 2004..This study explored what patient, family, provider, and system factors are associated with high continuity of both total and well-child care... - Birth outcomes among urban African-American women: a multilevel analysis of the role of racial residential segregationJanice F Bell
University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Soc Sci Med 63:3030-45. 2006..Further research to understand racial/ethnic and economic health disparities could benefit from a focus on the contributory role of neighborhood attributes associated with the dimensions segregation and other social geographies... - Continuity of care is associated with well-coordinated careDimitri A Christakis
Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle 98115, USA
Ambul Pediatr 3:82-6. 2003..The importance of continuity of care as a means to promote care coordination remains controversial... - Associations between minimum wage policy and access to health care: evidence from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 1996-2007Kelly P McCarrier
Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Am J Public Health 101:359-67. 2011..We examined whether minimum wage policy is associated with access to medical care among low-skilled workers in the United States... - Effect of block play on language acquisition and attention in toddlers: a pilot randomized controlled trialDimitri A Christakis
Department of Pediatrics, and Child Health Institute, University of Washington, 6200 NE 74th St, Ste 210, Seattle, WA 98115 8160, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 161:967-71. 2007..To test the hypotheses that block play improves language acquisition and attention... - Association between parental satisfaction and antibiotic prescription for children with cough and cold symptomsDimitri A Christakis
Children s Hospital and Regional Medical Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Pediatr Infect Dis J 24:774-7. 2005..Providers' interest in satisfying parents may provide an impetus for unnecessary antibiotic use in children... - Associations between state minimum wage policy and health care access: a multi-level analysis of the 2004 Behavioral Risk Factor surveyKelly P McCarrier
Department of Health Services, University of Washington UW, Seattle, USA
J Health Care Poor Underserved 21:729-48. 2010.... - Associations of television content type and obesity in childrenFrederick J Zimmerman
Department of Health Services, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1772, USA
Am J Public Health 100:334-40. 2010..We tested the associations of content types of children's television viewing with subsequent body mass index (BMI) to assess the plausibility of different causal pathways... - Parental emotional support and subsequent internalizing and externalizing problems among childrenCarolyn A McCarty
Department of Pediatrics, Child Health Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98115 8160, USA
J Dev Behav Pediatr 26:267-75. 2005..This study discusses the importance of very early parental emotional support in promoting positive child development... - Early television exposure and subsequent attentional problems in childrenDimitri A Christakis
Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Pediatrics 113:708-13. 2004..The objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that early television exposure (at ages 1 and 3) is associated with attentional problems at age 7... - The value of social-cognitive theory to reducing preschool TV viewing: a pilot randomized trialFrederick J Zimmerman
Fred W and Pamela K Wasserman Chair, Department of Health Services, Fielding School of Public Health, UCLA, Box 951772, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1772, USA
Prev Med 54:212-8. 2012..To (a) reduce the total amount of television viewing to which preschool children are exposed; and (b) shift the balance of exposure away from commercial television toward educational content... - Improving pediatric prevention via the internet: a randomized, controlled trialDimitri A Christakis
Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98115, USA
Pediatrics 118:1157-66. 2006..Innovations to improve the delivery of pediatric preventive care are needed... - Maternal work and birth outcome disparitiesJanice F Bell
Health Services, University of Washington, Box 357668, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
Matern Child Health J 12:415-26. 2008..We tested relations between aspects of maternal work and birth outcomes in a national sample and in subgroups known to experience disparities... - Social and economic determinants of disparities in professional help-seeking for child mental health problems: evidence from a national sampleFrederick J Zimmerman
Department of Health Services and Child Health Institute, University of Washington, 6200 NE 74th Street, Suite 210, Seattle, WA 98115-8160, USA
Health Serv Res 40:1514-33. 2005..The analysis also suggests that the literature on intrahousehold decision making and on the gender dimensions of investment in children is worth extending to mental health treatment decisions... - Health-care expenditures of overweight and obese males and females in the medical expenditures panel survey by age cohortJanice F Bell
Department of Health Services, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 19:228-32. 2011..Expenditures associated with obesity exceed those associated with overweight. Further research is required to elucidate factors underlying the differences by sex... - Teaching by listening: the importance of adult-child conversations to language developmentFrederick J Zimmerman
Department of Health Services, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
Pediatrics 124:342-9. 2009..To test the independent association of adult language input, television viewing, and adult-child conversations on language acquisition among infants and toddlers... - Television, video, and computer game usage in children under 11 years of ageDimitri A Christakis
Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, 98115 8160, USA
J Pediatr 145:652-6. 2004.... - Racial disparities in outcomes of persons with moderate to severe traumatic brain injuryStephen M Bowman
Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Med Care 45:686-90. 2007..Although racial differences in hospital outcomes are well known for medical conditions (eg, cardiovascular disease), it is unknown whether differences exist for patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI)... - Improving parental adherence with asthma treatment guidelines: a randomized controlled trial of an interactive websiteDimitri A Christakis
Seattle Children s Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98121, USA
Acad Pediatr 12:302-11. 2012..We sought to test whether an interactive website grounded in social cognitive theory can improve the dispensing of controller medications and adherence with them where indicated... - Shortened nighttime sleep duration in early life and subsequent childhood obesityJanice F Bell
Department of Health Services, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98198 7230, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 164:840-5. 2010..To test associations between daytime and nighttime sleep duration and subsequent obesity in children and adolescents... - Jail incarceration and birth outcomesJanice F Bell
Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
J Urban Health 81:630-44. 2004..Efforts to ensure that all pregnant women released from jail have access to enhanced prenatal health services may improve perinatal outcomes for this group of particularly vulnerable women and infants... - Employment outcomes of persons with a mental disorder and comorbid chronic painJennifer Brennan Braden
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, 1959 NE Pacific St, Box 356560, Seattle, WA 98195 6560, USA
Psychiatr Serv 59:878-85. 2008..This study examined the independent and interactive effects of common mental disorders and chronic pain conditions on employment and work outcomes among individuals under 65 years old... - Web-based collaborative care for type 1 diabetes: a pilot randomized trialKelly P McCarrier
Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
Diabetes Technol Ther 11:211-7. 2009.... - Hospital characteristics associated with the management of pediatric splenic injuriesStephen M Bowman
Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
JAMA 294:2611-7. 2005..As asplenic children are at increased risk of overwhelming postsplenectomy infection, nonoperative management may be considered a quality of care indicator... - Violent television viewing during preschool is associated with antisocial behavior during school ageDimitri A Christakis
Child Health Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98115 8160, USA
Pediatrics 120:993-9. 2007..The objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that exposure to violent television viewing when children are 2 to 5 years of age would be associated with antisocial behavior at ages 7 to 10... - Attitudes and intentions of future health care providers toward abortion provisionSolmaz Shotorbani
Department of Pharmacy, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Perspect Sex Reprod Health 36:58-63. 2004..However, 87% of all counties had no abortion provider in 2000, and little is known about the attitudes and intentions of future health care providers, including advanced clinical practitioners, regarding abortion provision... - Continuity of care is associated with high-quality careby parental reportDimitri A Christakis
Department of Pediatrics, Child Health Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98103 8652, USA
Pediatrics 109:e54. 2002..The benefits of continuity of pediatric care remain controversial... - Early television viewing is associated with protesting turning off the television at age 6Dimitri A Christakis
Department of Pediatrics and Child Health Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
MedGenMed 8:63. 2006..The effects of early exposure to television remain poorly defined. Although some have speculated that television may be habit-forming, evidence is lacking especially in young children... - Selection bias in prenatal care use by Medicaid recipientsJanice F Bell
Department of Health Services and the Child Health Institute, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195 4920, USA
Matern Child Health J 7:239-52. 2003..This study examines whether four types of selection bias in estimates of the effectiveness of prenatal care utilization for improving birthweight occur in a population of economically disadvantaged women... - Using marketing muscle to sell fat: the rise of obesity in the modern economyFrederick J Zimmerman
Department of Health Services, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, 90095 1772, USA
Annu Rev Public Health 32:285-306. 2011..Only by reigning in or countering marketing power can rationality be restored to the dietary choices of Americans... - Using behavioral economics to promote physical activityFrederick J Zimmerman
Department of Health Services, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1772, USA
Prev Med 49:289-91. 2009..Behavioral economics accordingly suggests that physical activity promotion should incorporate attempts at a cultural shift to support individual health-promotion efforts... - Occupational injury and absence from work among African American, Hispanic, and non-Hispanic White workers in the national longitudinal survey of youthLarkin L Strong
Department of Health Services, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, 98109, USA
Am J Public Health 95:1226-32. 2005..We examined how race and ethnicity influence injury and illness risk and number of days of work missed as a result of injury or illness... - Characteristics of deaths occurring in children's hospitals: implications for supportive care servicesChris Feudtner
Child Health Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98103 8552, USA
Pediatrics 109:887-93. 2002..End-of-life care is an important yet underdeveloped component of pediatric hospital services... - The role of hospital profit status in pediatric spleen injury managementStephen M Bowman
Department of Pediatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas 72202 3591, USA
Med Care 46:331-8. 2008..Evidence suggests that over 90% of pediatric splenic injuries can be successfully managed nonoperatively. Although pediatric hospitals have rapidly adopted nonoperative management, variability exists among other types of hospitals... - Perinatal health service use by women released from jailJanice F Bell
Health Services at the University of Washington, USA
J Health Care Poor Underserved 15:426-42. 2004..Service coordination may increase women's engagement in health services during future pregnancies, with or without subsequent incarceration... - Viewing television before age 3 is not the same as viewing television at age 5Dimitri A Christakis
Pediatrics 118:435; author reply 435-6. 2006 - Perceptions about computers and the internet in a pediatric clinic populationAaron E Carroll
Children s Health Services Research, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Ind, USA
Ambul Pediatr 5:122-6. 2005..A digital divide with respect to computer and Internet access has been noted in numerous studies and reports. Equally important to ownership is comfort with computers and Internet technology, and concerns about privacy of personal data... - Rural trauma: is trauma designation associated with better hospital outcomes?Stephen M Bowman
Department of Pediatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72202 3591, USA
J Rural Health 24:263-8. 2008..While trauma designation has been associated with lower risk of death in large urban settings, relatively little attention has been given to this issue in small rural hospitals...
Research Grants
- The Economics of Mental Health DispartiesFrederick Zimmerman; Fiscal Year: 2007..Finally, the last 18 months of the grant will be devoted to developing a new research protocol on the role of time preference (i.e., impatience or delay of gratification) in determining patient demand for mental health services. ..