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James S. House
Affiliated Programs:
Social Environment and Health Program
Funded Research:
Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
Neighborhood Context, Social Relationships, and Health: Examining the Pathways (NIA)
Health and Retirement Study Yrs 23-28 (NIA)
Health, Wealth, and Wellbeing over the Life Course and Across Generations (NIA)
Understanding Social Disparities in Health and Aging (NIA)
Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholarship (Russell Sage Foundation)
Negative Work Conditions and Health Across the Career (NICHD)
Urban Social Context, Health and Health Disparities (NICHD)
Michigan Interdisciplinary Center on Social Inequality, Mind and Body (NICHD)
Research Affiliate, Population Studies Center.
Faculty Associate, Institute of Gerontology.
Professor, Sociology.
Research Professor, Survey Research Center.
Research Professor, Epidemiology.
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
Clarke, Philippa J., Jennifer Ailshire, James S. House, Jeffrey Morenoff, Katherine E. King, R. Melendez, and Kenneth M. Langa. 2012. "Cognitive function in the community setting: the neighbourhood as a source of 'cognitive reserve'?" Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 66(8): 730-6. PMCID: PMC3387518. DOI. Abstract.
Hunte, H., G. Mentz, James S. House, A. Schulz, David R. Williams, Michael R. Elliott, Jeffrey Morenoff, and D. White-Perkins. 2012. "Variations in hypertension-related outcomes among Blacks, Whites and Hispanics in two large urban areas and in the United States." Ethnicity & Disease, 22(4): 391-7. PMCID: PMC3579519. Abstract.
Zelner, J., J. Trostle, J. Goldstick, W. Cevallos, James S. House, and J. Eisenberg. 2012. "Social connectedness and disease transmission: social organization, cohesion, village context, and infection risk in rural Ecuador." American Journal of Public Health, 102(12): 2233-9. DOI. Abstract.
Clarke, Philippa J., Jennifer Ailshire, James S. House, Jeffrey Morenoff, Katherine E. King, Robert Melendez, and Kenneth M. Langa. 2012. "Cognitive Function in the Community Setting: The Neighborhood as ‘Cognitive Reserve'?" Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 66(8): 730-736. PMCID: PMC3387518. DOI. Abstract.
Arno, P.S., James S. House, D. Viola, and C. Schechter. 2011. "Social security and mortality: The role of income support policies and population health in the United States." Journal of Public Health Policy, 32(2): 234-250. PMCID: PMC3148579. DOI. Abstract.
King, Katherine E., Jeffrey Morenoff, and James S. House. 2011. "Neighborhood Context and Social Disparities in Cumulative Biological Risk Factors." Psychosomatic Medicine, 73(7): 572-579. PMCID: PMC3216672. DOI. Abstract.
Ailshire, Jennifer, and James S. House. 2011. "The Unequal Burden of Weight Gain: An Intersectional Approach to Understanding Social Disparities in BMI Growth Trajectories from 1986 to 2001/2002." Social Forces, 90(2): 397-423. PMCID: PMC3570259. DOI. Abstract.
Dowd, J.B., N. Ranjit, D.P. Do, E.A. Young, James S. House, and George A. Kaplan. 2011. "Education and Levels of Salivary Cortisol Over the Day in US Adults." Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 41(1): 13-20. DOI. Abstract.