Research Area: Health, Disability, and Mortality:
Health Conditions, Disability

Recent Publications

Books

Johnston, Lloyd, and Patrick M. O'Malley. 2003. Obesity among American adolescents : tracking the problem and searching for causes. Ann Arbor, MI. : University of Michigan. Institute for Social Research.

Journal Articles

2008

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.

Freedman, V.A., Grafova, I.B., Robert F. Schoeni, and J. Rogowski. 2008. "Neighborhoods and disability in later life." Social Science & Medicine, 66(11): 2253-2267.

Schoeni, Robert F., V.A. Freedman, and L.G. Martin. 2008. "Why is late-life disability declining?" Milbank Quarterly, 86 : 47-89.

2006

Krause, Neal. 2006. "Church-based Social Support and Mortality." Journals of Gerontology Series B - Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 61(3): S140-S146.

Schoeni, Robert F., Jersey Liang, J. Bennett, H. Sugisawa, T. Fukaya, and E. Kobayashi. 2006. "Trends in Old-Age Functioning and Disability in Japan, 1993-2002." Population Studies - A Journal of Demography, 60(1): 39-53.

2005

Sastry, Narayan, and Sarah Burgard. 2005. "The prevalence of diarrheal disease among Brazilian children: trends and differentials from 1986 to 1996." Social Science & Medicine, 60(5): 911-1163.

Beemer, Jeffrey K., Susan Hautaniemi Leonard, and Douglas L. Anderson. 2005. "Sewers in the city: a case study of individual-level mortality and public health initiatives in Northampton, Massachusetts at the turn of the century." Journal of the History of Medicine and the Allied Sciences, 28(1): 42-72.

Wang, C., D. Viahov, S.R. Cole, J. Bareta, R. Pollini, S.H. Mehta, K.E. Nelson, and Sandro Galea. 2005. "The Effect of HIV Infection on Overdose Mortality." AIDS, 19(9): 935-942.

2004

Anderton, D.L., and Susan Hautaniemi Leonard. 2004. "Grammars of Death - an Analysis of Nineteenth-Century Literal Causes of Death From the Age of Miasmas to Germ Theory." Social Science History, 28(1): 111-143.

Wells, K., C. Sherbourne, Michael Schoenbaum, S. Ettner, N. Duan, J. Miranda, J. Unutzer, and L. Rubenstein. 2004. "Five-Year Impact of Quality Improvement for Depression - Results of a Group-Level Randomized Controlled Trial." Archives of General Psychiatry, 61(4): 378-386.

Chumbler, N.R., Amy M. Pienta, and J.W. Dwyer. 2004. "The Depressive Symptomatology of Parent Care Among the Near Elderly - the Influence of Multiple Role Commitments." Research on Aging, 26(3): 330-351.

Musick, Marc A., James S. House, and David R. Williams. 2004. "Attendance at Religious Services and Mortality in a National Sample." Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 45(2): 198-213.

Lin, Ge, and T.L. Zhang. 2004. "A Method for Testing Low-Value Spatial Clustering for Rare Diseases." Acta Tropica, 91(3): 279-289.

Feresu, S.A., Sioban D. Harlow, K. Welch, and B.W. Gillespie. 2004. "Incidence of and Socio-Demographic Risk Factors for Stillbirth, Preterm Birth and Low Birthweight Among Zimbabwean Women." Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, 18(2): 154-163.

Freedman, V.A., L.G. Martin, and Robert F. Schoeni. 2004. "Disability in America." Population Bulletin, 59(3): 3-32.

Nadi, A., Sandro Galea, M. Tracy, J. Ahern, H. Resnick, R. Gershon, and D. Vlahov. 2004. "Job Loss, Unemployment, Work, Stress, Job Satisfaction and the Persistence of PTSD One Year After the September 11 Attacks." Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 46(10): 1057-1064.

Boscarino, J., C. Figley, R.E. Adams, Sandro Galea, H. Resnick, A.R. Fleischman, M. Bucuvalas, and J. Gold. 2004. "Adverse Reactions Associated with Persons Recently Exposed to Mass Disaster." Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 192: 515-524.

Marshall, R., and Sandro Galea. 2004. "Science for the Community: Mental Health after 9/11." Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 65(Supplement1): 37-43.

Nelson, B., W.G. Fernandez, Sandro Galea, S. Sisco, K. Dierberg, G.S. Gorgieva, A. Nandi, J. Ahern, M. Mitrovia, M. van Rooyen, and D. Vlahov. 2004. "War-related psychological sequelae among emergency department patients in the former Republic of Yugoslavia." BMC Medicine, 2(1): 22.

2003

Robinson, Keith D., S. Deleger, W.J. Strawbridge, and George A. Kaplan. 2003. "Prospective Association Between Obesity and Depression: Evidence From the Alameda County Study." International Journal of Obesity, 27(4): 514-521.

Hillemeier, Marianne M., John W. Lynch, S. Harper, and M. Casper. 2003. "Measuring Contextual Characteristics for Community Health." Health Services Research, 38(6): 1645-1717.

Galea, Sandro, D. Vlahov, H. Resnick, J. Ahern, E. Susser, J. Gold, M. Bucuvalas, and D. Kilpatrick. 2003. "Trends in Probably Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in New York City after the September 11 Terrorist Attacks." American Journal of Epidemiology, 158(6): 514-524.

Coffin, P.O., Sandro Galea, J. Ahern, A.C. Leon, D. Viahov, and K. Tardiff. 2003. "Opiates, Cocaine and Alcohol Combinations in Accidental Drug Overdose Deaths in New York City, 1990-98." Addiction, 98(6): 739-747.

2002

Blaum, C., Mary Beth Ofstedal, and Jersey Liang. 2002. "Low Cognitive Performance, Comorbid Disease, and Task-Specific Disability: Findings from a Nationally Representative Survey." Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological and Medical Sciences, 57(8): M523-M531.

Bound, John, and Timothy A. Waidmann. 2002. "Accounting for Recent Declines in Employment Rates Among the Working-Aged Disabled." Journal of Human Resources, 37(2): 231-250.

Laaksonen, D.E., H.M. Lakka, L.K. Niskanen, George A. Kaplan, J.T. Salonen, and T.A. Lakka. 2002. "Metabolic Syndrome and Development of Diabetes Mellitus: Application and Validation of Recently Suggested Definitions of the Metabolic Syndrome in a Prospective Cohort Study." American Journal of Epidemiology, 156(11): 1070-1077.

Everson, S.A., S.C. Maty, John W. Lynch, and George A. Kaplan. 2002. "Epidemiologic Evidence for the Relation Between Socioeconomic Status and Depression, Obesity, and Diabetes." Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 53(4): 891-895.

Balfour, J.L., and George A. Kaplan. 2002. "Neighborhood Environment and Loss of Physical Function in Older Adults: Evidence From the Alameda County Study." American Journal of Epidemiology, 155(6): 507-515.

Krause, Neal, Jersey Liang, Benjamin A. Shaw, Hidehiro Sugisawa, Hye-Kyung Kim, and Yoko Sugihara. 2002. "Religion, death of a loved one, and hypertension among older adults in Japan." Journals of Gerontology: Social Science, 57B: S96-S107.

Verbrugge, Lois M., and P. Sevak. 2002. "Use, type, and efficacy of assistance for disability." Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 57B:S366-S379.

Chapters

House, James S., and George A. Kaplan. 2004. "The Psychosocial Nature of Physical Health." In A Telescope on Society: Survey Research and Social Science at the University of Michigan and Beyond edited by James S. House, F. Thomas Juster, Robert L. Kahn, Howard Schuman, and Eleanor Singer. Pp. 248-270. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor.

Johnson, Nan. 2004. "Spatial Patterning of Disabilities among Adults." In Critical Issues in Rural Health edited by Nina Glasgow, Lois Wright Morton and Nan E. Johnson. Pp. 27-36. Ames, Iowa: Blackwell.

Verbrugge, Lois M., and L.S. Yang. 2003. "Duration of disability and timing of onset." In Using Survey Data to Study Disability: Results from the National Health Interview Survey on Disability. Research on Social Science and Disability, Volume 3. edited by B.M. Altman, S.N. Barnartt, G.E. Hendershot, and S.A. Larson. Pp. 275-298. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Ltd..

Zimmer, Z., J. Natividad, Mary Beth Ofstedal, and Hui-Sheng Lin. 2002. "Physical and Mental Health and Well-Being." In The Well-Being of the Elderly in Asia: A Four Country Comparative Study edited by A. I. Hermalin. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

PSC Reports

Ford, Kathleen, MaryFran Sowers, Theresa Seeman, Gail Greendale, Barbara Sternfeld, and Susan Everson-Rose. 2008. "Cognitive Functioning is Related to Physical Functioning in a Longitudinal Study of Women at Mid-Life." PSC Research Report No. 08-661. November 2008.

Bound, John, Todd R. Stinebrickner, and Timothy A. Waidmann. 2007. "Health, Economic Resources and the Work Decisions of Older Men." PSC Research Report No. 07-630. November 2007.

Freedman, Vicki A., Irina B. Grafova, Robert F. Schoeni, and Jeannette Rogowski. 2007. "Neighborhoods and Disability in Later Life." PSC Research Report No. 07-622. May 2007.

Freedman, Vicki A., Robert F. Schoeni, Linda G. Martin, and Jennifer C. Cornman. 2006. "Chronic Conditions and the Decline in Late-Life Disability." TRENDS Working Paper No. 06-5. July 2006.

Brand, Jennie, and Yu Xie. 2006. "Composite Causal Effects for Time-Varying Treatments and Time-Varying Outcomes." PSC Research Report No. 06-601. June 2006.

Schoeni, Robert F., Vicki A. Freedman, and Linda G. Martin. 2005. "Socioeconomic and Demographic Disparities in Trends in Old-Age Disability." TRENDS Working Paper No. 05-1. June 2005.

Freedman, Vicki A., Linda G. Martin, Jennifer Cornman, Emily M. Agree, and Robert F. Schoeni. 2005. "Trends in Assistance with Daily Activities: Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Disparities Persist in the U.S. Older Population." TRENDS Working Paper No. 05-2. June 2005.

Schoeni, Robert F., Jersey Liang, Joan Bennett, Hidehiro Sugisawa, Taro Fukaya, and Erika Kobayashi. 2005. "Trends in Old-Age Functioning and Disability in Japan: 1993-2002." TRENDS Working Paper No. 05-3. June 2005.


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