George A. Kaplan
Affiliated Programs:
Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health
Funded Research:
Application of Systems Approaches to Health Disparities & Population Health (NIH)
Emerging Disparities in Chronic Disease Risk Among Young Adults (NICHD)
Food insecurity in recently resettled African refugee communities (NSF)
Health and Function over Three Decades in Alameda County (NIA)
Health and Society Scholars Program (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
Michigan Center for Integrative Approaches to Health Disparities (CIAHD) (NCMHHD)
Michigan Interdisciplinary Center on Social Inequality, Mind and Body (NICHD)
Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Program (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
The Shape of Income and Mortality (NIA)
Under the Skin: Understanding the Role of Stress and Immune Function in Health Disparities (NIH)
Understanding Social Disparities in Health and Aging (ACL) (NIA)
Understanding the Complex Causes of Population Health (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
Thomas Francis Collegiate Professor Emeritus of Public Health and Epidemiology, Survey Research Center, University of Michigan.
Research Professor Emeritus, Survey Research Center, University of Michigan.
Founder, Center for Social Epidemiology and Population, University of Michigan.
Ph.D., Cornell University
Dr. Kaplan studies the cumulative cost of socioeconomic disadvantage on health and functional outcomes in the elderly, and the role of equity in the distribution of income on the overall health of populations. Both areas of research are directed at establishing the close linkage between economic policy and health policy. A major theme in his work is the role of "upstream" and "downstream" factors in maintaining health, delaying disease, and improving function.
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.
Journal Articles
Kaplan, George A. Forthcoming. "Health inequalities and the welfare state: perspectives from social epidemiology." Norsk Epidemiologi.
Galea, Sandro, Hall, C., and George A. Kaplan. 2009. "Social epidemiology and complex system dynamic modelling as applied to health behaviour and drug use research." International Journal of Drug Policy, 20(3): 209-16. DOI:doi:10.1016/j.drugpo.2008.08.005. Public Access. Worldcat.
Kaplan, George A., Shema, S.J., and C.M. Leite. 2008. "Socioeconomic determinants of psychological well-being: The role of income, income change, and income sources during the course of 29 years." Annals of Epidemiology, 18(7): 531-537. DOI:10.1016/j.annepidem.2008.03. Licensed Access. Worldcat.
Maty, S.C., Lynch, John W., Trivellore Raghunathan, and George A. Kaplan. 2008. "Childhood socioeconomic position, gender, adult body mass index, and incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus over 34 years in the Alameda County Study." American Journal of Public Health, 98(8): 1486-1494. PMCID:PMC2446445. DOI:10.2105/ajph.2007.123653. Public Access. Worldcat.
Yang, Seungmi, John W. Lynch, Trivellore Raghunathan, Jussi Kauhanen, Jukka T. Salonen, and George A. Kaplan. 2007. "Socioeconomic and psychosocial exposures across the life course and binge drinking in adulthood: Population-based study." American Journal of Epidemiology, 165(2): 184-193. DOI:10.1093/aje/kwj357. Licensed Access.
Morenoff, Jeffrey, James S. House, Ben Hansen, David R. Williams, George A. Kaplan, and Haslyn E. Hunte. 2007. "Understanding Social Disparities in Hypertension Prevalence, Awareness, Treatment, and Control: The Role of Neighborhood Context." Social Science and Medicine, 65(9): 1853-1866. PMCID:PMC2705439. DOI:10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.05.038. Licensed Access.
Gautier, C., C.L. Stine, J.R. Jennings, K. Sutton-Tyrrell, M.B. Muldoon, T.W. Kamarck, George A. Kaplan, J. Salonen, and S.B. Manuck. 2007. "Reduced low-frequency heart rate variability relates to greater intimal-medial thickness of the carotid wall in two samples." Coronary Artery Disease , 18(2): 97-104. DOI:10.1097/MCA.0b013e328011ac01 . Licensed Access.
Kaplan, George A. 2007. "How big is big enough for epidemiology?" Epidemiology, 18:18-20. DOI:10.1097/01.ede.0000249507.52550.90. Licensed Access.
Kaplan, George A., P.T. Baltrus, and Trivellore Raghunathan. 2007. "The shape of health to come: prospective study of the determinants of 30-year health trajectories in the Alameda County Study." International Journal of Epidemiology, 36(3): 542-8. DOI:10.1093/ije/dym008. Licensed Access.
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