Recent Publications
Books
Galea, Sandro. 2007. Macrosocial Determinants of Population Health. New York: Springer.
Glasgow, Nina, Lois Wright Morton, and Nan Johnson. 2004. Critical Issues in Rural Health. Blackwell Publishing.
Journal Articles
2009
Walsemann, Katrina M., Gilbert C. Gee, and Arline T. Geronimus. 2009. "Ethnic Differences in Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms: Disadvantage in Family Background, High School Experiences, and Adult Characteristics." Journal of Health & Social Behavior, 50(1): 82-98.
2008
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.
Walsemann, Katrina M., Geronimus, Arline T., and G.C. Gee. 2008. "Accumulating disadvantage over the life course - Evidence from a longitudinal study investigating the relationship between educational advantage in youth and health in middle age." Research on Aging, 30(2): 169-199.
2007
Galea, Sandro, Ahern, J., A. Nandi, M. Tracy, J. Beard, and D. Vlahov. 2007. "Urban neighborhood poverty and the incidence of depression in a population-based cohort study." Annals of Epidemiology, 17(3): 171-179.
Bhandari, Prem B., S.S. Shrestha, and Dirgha Ghimire. 2007. "Sociocultural and geographical disparities in child immunization in Nepal." Asia-Pacific Population Journal, 22(1): 43-64.
Turrell, G., John W. Lynch, C. Leite, Trivellore Raghunathan, and George A. Kaplan. 2007. "Socioeconomic disadvantage in childhood and across the life course and all-cause mortality and physical function in adulthood: evidence from the Alameda County Study." Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 61(8): 723-730.
Heisler, Michele, Jessica Faul, Rodney Hayward, Kenneth M. Langa, Caroline Blaum, and David Weir. 2007. "Mechanisms for Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Glycemic Control in Middle-aged and Older Americans in the Health and Retirement Study." Archives of Internal Medicine, 167(17): 1853-1860.
Geronimus, Arline T., Danya Keene
, Margaret Hicken, and John Bound. 2007. "Black -White Differences in Age Trajectories of Hypertension Prevalence among Adult Women and Men, 1999-2002." Ethnicity and Disease, 17(1): 40-48.
2006
Colen, Cynthia, Arline T. Geronimus, John Bound, and Sherman James. 2006. "Maternal Upward Socioeconomic Mobility and Black–White Disparities in Infant Birthweight." American Journal of Public Health, 96(11): 2032-2039.
Geronimus, Arline T., Cynthia Colen, Tara P. Shochet, Lori Barer Ingber, and Sherman James. 2006. "Urban-Rural Differences in Excess Mortality among High-Poverty Populations: Evidence from the Harlem Household Survey and the Pitt County, North Carolina Study of African American Health." Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 17(3): 532-558.
Geronimus, Arline T., Margaret Hicken, Danya Keene
, and John Bound. 2006. ""Weathering" and age-patterns of allostatic load scores among Blacks and Whites in the United States." American Journal of Public Health, 96: 826-833.
Lantz, Paula M., M. Mujahid , K. Schwartz , N.K. Janz , A. Fagerlin , B. Salem, L. Liu, D. Deapen, and S.J. Katz. 2006. "The influence of race, ethnicity, and individual socioeconomic factors on breast cancer stage at diagnosis." American Journal of Public Health, 96(12): 2173-8.
2005
Fuller, C.M., L. Borrel, C. Latkin, Sandro Galea, D. Ompad, S.A. Strathdee, and D. Vlahov. 2005. "The Effect of Race, Neighborhood, and Social Network on Age of Initiation of Injection Drug Use." American Journal of Public Health, 95: 689-695.
Galea, Sandro, S. Sisco, and D. Vlahov. 2005. "Reducing Disparities in Vaccination Rates Between Different Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Groups: The Potential of Community-Based Multilevel Interventions." Journal of Ambulatory Care Management, 28(1): 49-59.
Freudenberg, N., Sandro Galea, and D. Vlahov. 2005. "Beyond urban Penalty and Urban Sprawl: Back to Living Conditions as the Focus of Urban Health." Journal of Community Health, 21(3): 949-957.
Lantz, Paula M., James S. House, R.P. Mero, and David R. Williams. 2005. "Stress, life events, and socioeconomic disparities in health: results from the Americans' changing lives study." Journal of Health & Social Behavior, 46(3): 274-288.
Miller, J.R., T.M. Piper, J. Ahern, M. Tracy, K.J. Tardiff, D. Vlahov, and Sandro Galea. 2005. "Income Inequality and Risk of Suicide in New York City Neighborhoods: a Multilevel Case-Control Study." Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 35(4): 448-459.
Young, M., J. Stuber, J. Ahern, and Sandro Galea. 2005. "Interpersonal Discrimination and the Health of Illicit Drug Users." American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 31(3): 371-391.
Prentice, J.C., A.R. Pebley, and Narayan Sastry . 2005. "Immigration Status and Health Insurance Coverage: Who Gains? Who Loses?" American Journal of Public Health, 95(1)109-116.
2004
Khang, Y.H., John W. Lynch, and George A. Kaplan. 2004. "Health Inequalities in Korea: Age- and Sex-Specific Educational Differences in the 10 Leading Causes of Death." International Journal of Epidemiology, 33(2): 299-308.
Lynch, John W., G.D. Smith, S. Harper, Marianne M. Hillemeier, N. Ross, George A. Kaplan, and M. Wolfson. 2004. "Is Income Inequality a Determinant of Population Health? Part 1. A Systematic Review." Milbank Quarterly, 82(1): 5-99.
Chang, Jui-Shan, E. Faerstein, George A. Kaplan, John W. Lynch, and C.S. Lopes. 2004. "Association of Weight Change With Ethnicity and Life Course Socioeconomic Position Among Brazilian Civil Servants." International Journal of Epidemiology, 33(1): 100-106.
Lynch, John W., G.D. Smith, S. Harper, and Marianne M. Hillemeier. 2004. "Is Income Inequality a Determinant of Population Health? Part 2. Us National and Regional Trends in Income Inequality and Age- and Cause-Specific Mortality." Milbank Quarterly, 82(2): 355-+.
Bromberger, J.T., Sioban D. Harlow, N. Avis, H.M. Kravitz, and A. Cordal. 2004. "Racial/Ethnic Differences in the Prevalence of Depressive Symptoms Among Middle-Aged Women: the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (Swan)." American Journal of Public Health, 94(8): 1378-1385.
Randolph, J.F., M. Sowers, I.V. Bondarenko, Sioban D. Harlow, J.L. Luborsky, and R.J. Little. 2004. "Change in Estradiol and Follicle-Stimulating Hormone Across the Early Menopausal Transition: Effects of Ethnicity and Age." Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 89(4): 1555-1561.
Burgard, Sarah. 2004. "Race and Pregnancy-Related Care in Brazil and South Africa." Social Science and Medicine, 59(6): 1127-1146.
Ompad, D.C., Sandro Galea, C.M. Fuller, D. Phelan, and D. Vlahov. 2004. "Club Drug Use Among Minority Substance Users in New York City." Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 36(3): 397-399.
Fuller, C.M., Sandro Galea, S. Blaney, D. Ompad, S. Deren, D. DesJarlais, and D. Vlahov. 2004. "Explaining the Relationship Between Race/Ethnicity and Pharmacy Syringe Purchases Among IDUs in New York City." Ethnicity and Disease, 14(4): 589-596.
Sastry, Narayan. 2004. "Trends in Socioeconomic Inequalities in Mortality in Developing Countries: the Case of Child Survival in Sao Paulo, Brazil." Demography, 41(3)443-464.
2003
Geronimus, Arline T. 2003. "Commentary: Weathering Chicago." International Journal of Epidemiology, 32(1): 90-91.
Miranda, J., N.H. Duan, C. Sherbourne, Michael Schoenbaum, I. Lagomasino, M. Jackson-Triche, and K.B. Wells. 2003. "Improving Care for Minorities: Can Quality Improvement Interventions Improve Care and Outcomes for Depressed Minorities? Results of a Randomized, Controlled Trial." Health Services Research, 38(2): 613-630.
Bound, John, Timothy A. Waidmann, Michael Schoenbaum, and Jeffery Bingenheimer. 2003. "The Labor Market Consequences of Race Differences in Health." Milbank Quarterly, 81(3): 441-473.
Morenoff, Jeffrey. 2003. "Neighborhood mechanisms and the spatial dynamics of birth weight." American Journal of Sociology, 108(5): 976-1017.
Harding, David J. 2003. "Counterfactual Models of Neighborhood Effects: The Effect of Neighborhood Poverty on High School Dropout and Teenage Pregnancy." American Journal of Sociology, 109(3): 676-719.
Stuber, J., Sandro Galea, J. Ahern, S. Blaney, and C. Fuller. 2003. "The Association Between Multiple Domains of Disrimination and Self-Assessed Health: A Multilevel Analysis of Latinos and Blacks in Four Low-Income New York City Neighborhoods." Health Services Research, 38(6): 1735-1759.
Minior, T., Sandro Galea, J. Stuber, J. Ahern, and D. Ompad. 2003. "Racial Differences iin Discrimination Experiences and Responses Among Minority Substance Users." Ethnicity and Disease, 13(4): 521-527.
Wallace, J.M., Jerald Bachman, Patrick M. O'Malley, John E. Schulenberg, S.M. Cooper, and Lloyd Johnston. 2003. "Gender and Ethnic Differences in Smoking, Drinking and Illicit Drug Use Among American 8th, 10th and 12th Grade Students, 1976-2000." Addiction, 98:225-234.
Leonard, Susan Hautaniemi, and Lynnette Leidy Sievert. 2003. "Risk factors for hysterectomy among Mexican American women in the US Southwest." American Journal of Human Biology, 15: 38-47.
Galea, Sandro, J. Ahern, K. Tardiff, P.O. Coffin, K. Derr, and D. Viahov. 2003. "Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Overdose Mortality Trends in New York City, 1990-1998." Journal of Urban Health-Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, 80(2): 201-211.
Galea, Sandro, J. Ahern, D. Viahov, C. Fuller, A.C. Leon, and K. Tardiff. 2003. "Income Distribution and Risk of Fatal Drug Overdose in New York City Neighborhoods." Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 70(2): 139-148.
Sastry, Narayan, and J.M. Hussey. 2003. "An Investigation of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Birth Weight in Chicago Neighborhoods." Demography, 40(4)701-725.
2002
Sampson, Robert J., Jeffrey Morenoff, and Thomas Gannon-Rowley. 2002. "Assessing Neighborhood Effects: Social Processes and New Directions in Research." Annual Review of Sociology, 28: 443-478.
House, James S. 2002. "Understanding Social Factors and Inequalities in Health: 20th Century Progess and 21st Century Prospects." Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 43(2): 125-142.
Sampselle, C.M., V. Harris, Sioban D. Harlow, and M.F. Sowers. 2002. "Midlife Development and Menopause in African American and Caucasian Women." Health Care for Women International, 32(4): 351-363.
Muntaner, C., John W. Lynch, Marianne M. Hillemeier, J.H. Lee, R. David, J. Benach, and Alicia Puente Cackley. 2002. "Economic Inequality, Working-Class Power, Social Capital, and Cause-Specific Mortality in Wealthy Countries." International Journal of Health Services, 32(4): 629-656.
Burgard, Sarah. 2002. "Does Race Matter? Children’s Height in Brazil and South Africa." Demography, 39(4): 763-790.
Krause, Neal. 2002. "Church-Based Social Support and Health in Old Age: Exploring Variations by Race." Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 57(6): S332-S347.
Karpati, A., Sandro Galea, T. Awerbuch, and R. Levins. 2002. "Variability and Vulnerability at the Ecologic Level: Implications for Understanding the Social Determinants of Health." American Journal of Public Health, 92: 1768-1772.
Galea, Sandro, and D. Vlahov. 2002. "Social Determinants and the Health of Drug Users: The Role of Socio-Economic Status, Homelessness and Incarceration." Public Health Reports, 117(Supplement1): S135-S145.
Shulz, A., J. Krieger, and Sandro Galea. 2002. "Addressing Social Determinants of Health: Community-Based Participatory Approaches to Research and Practice." Health Education & Behavior, 29(3): 287-295.
Wallace, J.M., Jerald Bachman, Patrick M. O'Malley, Lloyd Johnston, John E. Schulenberg, and S.M. Cooper. 2002. "Tobacco, Alcohol, and Illicit Drug Use: Racial and Ethnic Differences Among Us High School Seniors, 1976-2000." Public Health Reports, 117:S67-S75.
Chapters
Morenoff, Jeffrey, and John W. Lynch. 2004. "What Makes a Place Healthy? Neighborhood Influences on Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health Over the Life Course." In Critical Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Differences in Health in Late Life edited by Norman B. Anderson, Randy A. Bulatao, and Barney Cohen. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.
Low, Bobbi. 2004. "The Biological Bases of Sex Differences." In The Encyclopedia of Men and Women edited by M. Ember, M. and C. Ember. New York: Kluwer Press.
Morton, Lois W., Nina Glasgow, and Nan Johnson. 2004. "Reaching the Goal: Less Disparity, Better Rural Health." In Critical Issues in Rural Health edited by Nina Glasgow, Lois Wright Morton and Nan E. Johnson. Pp. 283-292. Ames, Iowa: Blackwell.
Condon, K., J. Davidson, Myron Gutmann, J. Rose, and M.R. Haines. 2002. "Quality of Life on the 19th Century U.S. Western Frontier: The Health of African Americans." In The Backbone of History edited by R. Steckel and J. Rose. New York: Cambridge University Press.
PSC Reports
Wildeman, Christopher. 2009. "Imprisonment and Infant Mortality." PSC Research Report No. 09-692. November 2009.
Lowry, Deborah, and Yu Xie. 2009. "Socioeconomic Status and Health Differentials in China: Convergence Or Divergence at Older Ages?" PSC Research Report No. 09-690. October 2009.
Burgard, Sarah, Jennie Brand, and James S. House. 2008. "Perceived Job Insecurity and Worker Health in the United States." PSC Research Report No. 08-650. July 2008.
Sastry, Narayan. 2008. "Tracing the Effects of Hurricane Katrina on the Population of New Orleans: The Displaced New Orleans Residents Pilot Study." PSC Research Report No. 08-637. May 2008.
Snow, Rachel C. 2007. "Sex, Gender and Vulnerability." PSC Research Report No. 07-628. September 2007.
Morenoff, Jeffrey, Ben Hansen, James S. House, 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." PSC Research Report No. 07-614. January 2007.
Greenman, Emily, and Yu Xie. 2006. "Is Assimilation Theory Dead? The Effect of Assimilation on Adolescent Well-Being." PSC Research Report No. 06-605. August 2006.
Xie, Yu, and Emily Greenman. 2005. "Segmented Assimilation Theory: A Reformulation and Empirical Test." PSC Research Report No. 05-581. August 2005.
Heron, Melonie P., Robert F. Schoeni, and Leo Morales. 2003. "Health Disparities among Older Immigrants in the United States." PSC Research Report No. 03-548. December 2003.
Sobieszczyk, Theresa R., John E. Knodel, and Napaporn Chayovan. 2002. "Gender and Well-Being among the Elderly: Evidence from Thailand." PSC Research Report No. 02-531. December 2002.