Philippa J. Clarke
Funded Research:
Harmonization of Longitudinal Cross-National Surveys of Aging (NIA)
Urban Built Environments and Trajectories of Disability Among Older Adults (CDC)
Youth, Education, and Society (YES) Study (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
Research Assistant Professor, Survey Research Center, University of Michigan.
Ph.D., University of Toronto
Dr. Clarke uses U.S. census data to show how housing density and mixed-use neighborhoods affect individual experience of disability and uses detailed GIS information to refine this work. She also examines late-life mental health and physical well-being.
Recent Publications
Journal Articles
Clarke, Philippa J., Patrick M. O'Malley, Lloyd Johnston, John E. Schulenberg, and Paula M. Lantz. 2009. "Differential trends in weight-related health behaviors among American young adults by gender, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status: 1984-2006." American Journal of Public Health, 99(10): 1893-901. DOI:10.2105/AJPH.2008.141317. Licensed Access.
Clarke, Philippa J., and Els R. Nieuwenhuijsen. 2009. "Environments for healthy ageing: a critical review." Maturitas, 64(1): 14-9. DOI:10.1016/j.maturitas.2009.07.011. Licensed Access.
Clarke, Philippa J., Jennifer Ailshire, and Paula M. Lantz. 2009. "Urban built environments and trajectories of mobility disability: findings from a national sample of community-dwelling American adults (1986-2001)." Social Science & Medicine, 69(6): 964-70. DOI:10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.06.041. Licensed Access.
Clarke, Philippa J. 2009. "Understanding the Experience of Stroke: A Mixed-Method Research Agenda." Gerontologist, 49(3): 293-302. DOI:10.1093/geront/gnp047. Licensed Access.
Clarke, Philippa J., Pamela Chan, Lina P. Santaguida, and Angela Colantonio. 2009. "The Use of Mobility Devices Among Institutionalized Older Adults." Journal of Aging and Health, 21(4): 611-626. DOI:10.1177/0898264309333313. Licensed Access.
Clarke, Philippa J., Patrick M. O'Malley, Lloyd Johnston, and John E. Schulenberg. 2009. "Social disparities in BMI trajectories across adulthood by gender, race/ethnicity and lifetime socio-economic position: 1986-2004." International Journal of Epidemiology, 38(2): 499-509. DOI:10.1093/ije/dyn214. Licensed Access.
Clarke, Philippa J. 2008. "When can group level clustering be ignored? Multilevel models versus single-level models with sparse data." Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 62(8): 752-758. DOI:10.1136/jech.2007.060798. 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.
Clarke, Philippa J., and Wheaton, B. 2007. "Addressing data sparseness in contextual population research - Using cluster analysis to create synthetic neighborhoods." Sociological Methods & Research, 35(3): 311-351. DOI:10.1177/0049124106292362. Public Access. Worldcat.
Ballantyne, P., Clarke, Philippa J., J. Marshman, J. Victor, and J. Fisher. 2005. "Use of prescribed and non-prescribed medicines by the elderly: implications for who chooses, who pays and who monitors the risks of medicines." International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 13:133-140. Licensed Access.
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