James S. House

Affiliated Programs:

Social Environment and Health Program

Funded Research:

Health and Society Scholars Program (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)

Health Effects on Nonhealth Policy (Russell Sage Foundation)

Healthy Environments Partnership - Community Approaches to Cardiovascular Health in Detroit Project (NCMHHD)

Michigan Interdisciplinary Center on Social Inequality, Mind and Body (NICHD)

Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Program (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)

Social and Physical Environments and Health Disparities (NIEHS)

Understanding Social Disparities in Health and Aging (ACL) (NIA)

Urban Social Context, Health and Health Disparities (NICHD)

Ph.D., University of Michigan

Dr House's research interests include Social Psychology, Political Sociology, Social Structure and Personality, Psychosocial and Socioeconomic Factors in Health, Survey Research Methods, American Society

Recent Publications

Books

Schoeni, Robert F., James S. House, George A. Kaplan, and Harold Pollack. 2008. Making Americans Healthier: Social and Economic Policy as Health Policy. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Abstract.

House, James S., F. Thomas Juster, Robert Kahn, Howard Schuman, and Eleanor Singer. 2004. A Telescope on Society: Survey Research & Social Science at the University of Michigan and Beyond. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. Abstract.

Journal Articles

Burgard, Sarah, Jennie Brand, and James S. House. 2009. "Perceived job insecurity and worker health in the United States." Social Science & Medicine, 69(5): 777-85. DOI:10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.06.029. Licensed Access.

Herd, P., Schoeni, Robert F., and James S. House. 2008. "Upstream solutions: Does the supplemental security income program reduce disability in the elderly?" Milbank Quarterly, 86(1): 5-45. DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0009.2007.00512.x. Licensed Access. Worldcat.

Brown, S.L., Roger L. Brown, James S. House, and D.M. Smith. 2008. "Coping with spousal loss: Potential buffering effects of self-reported helping behavior." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34(6): 849-861. DOI:10.1177/0146167208314972. Licensed Access. Worldcat.

Clarke, Philippa J., Ailshire, Jennifer, Michael Bader, Jeffrey Morenoff, and James S. House. 2008. "Mobility disability and the urban built environment." American Journal of Epidemiology, 168(5): 506-513. PMCID:PMC2727170. DOI:10.1093/aje/kwn185. Licensed Access. Worldcat.

Schulz, A.J., House, James S., B.A. Israel, G. Mentz, J.T. Dvonch, P.Y. Miranda, S. Kannan, and M. Koch. 2008. "Relational pathways between socioeconomic position and cardiovascular risk in a multiethnic urban sample: complexities and their implications for improving health in economically disadvantaged populations." Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 62(7): 638-646. DOI:10.1136/jech.2007.063222. Licensed Access. Worldcat.

House, James S. 2008. "Social psychology, social science, and economics: Twentieth century progress and problems, twenty-first century prospects." Social Psychology Quarterly, 71(3): 232-256. Public Access. Worldcat.

Zenk, Shannon N., Amy J. Schulz, Graciela Mentz, James S. House, Clarence C. Gravlee, Patricia Miller, and Srimathi Kannan. 2007. "Inter-rater and test-retest reliability: Methods and results for the neighborhood observational checklist." Health and Place, 13(2): 452-465. DOI:10.1016/j.healthplace.2006.05.003. Licensed Access.

Burgard, Sarah, Jennie Brand, and James S. House. 2007. "Toward a Better Estimation of the Effect of Job Loss on Health." Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 48: 369-384. Licensed Access.

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