The Poor Pay More-Poverty's High Cost to Health (2009)
http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/64129/1/The Poor Pay More-Povertys High Cost to Health_2009.pdf
Galea, Sandro, Hall, Chris, Kaplan, George A
Peer Reviewed
Irene H. Yen, George A. Kaplan
Recent reports suggest the importance of associations between residential area characteristics and health status, but most research uses only census data to measure these characteristics. The current...
Krause, Niklas, Brand, Richard J, Kaplan, George A, Kauhanen, Jussi, Malla, Smriti, Tuomainen, Tomi-Pekka, ...
Objectives This study prospectively assessed the effects of occupational physical activity on atherosclerosis progression. Methods This population-based prospective study of ultrasonographically...
Backlund, Eric, Rowe, Geoff, Lynch, John, Wolfson, Michael C, Kaplan, George A, Sorlie, Paul D
Background Some of the most consistent evidence in favour of an association between income inequality and health has been among US states. However, in multilevel studies of mortality, only two out of...
Kaplan, George A, Baltrus, Peter T, Raghunathan, Trivellore E
Background Considerable evidence now exists indicating that incidence and progression of disease and disability are associated with socio-economic, behavioural, demographic and psychosocial factors....
Turrell, Gavin, Lynch, John W., Leite, Claudia, Raghunathan, Trivellore, Kaplan, George A.
Study objective: This study measures the childhood and lifecourse socioeconomic exposures of people born between 1871 and 1949, and then estimates the probability of death between 1965 and 1994, the...
Turrell, Gavin, Lynch, John W., Leite, Claudia, Raghunathan, Trivellore, Kaplan, George A.
Study objective: This study measures the childhood and lifecourse socioeconomic exposures of people born between 1871 and 1949, and then estimates the probability of death between 1965 and 1994, the...
Health inequalities and the welfare state: perspectives from social epidemiology (2007)
It might be assumed that welfare states that have done so much to reduce inequality of opportunity have also reduced inequality of health outcomes. While great advances have been seen in reducing the...
Health inequalities and the welfare state: perspectives from social epidemiology (2007)
It might be assumed that welfare states that have done so much to reduce inequality of opportunity have also reduced inequality of health outcomes. While great advances have been seen in reducing the...
Turrell, Gavin, Lynch, John W., Leite, Claudia, Raghunathan, Trivellore, Kaplan, George A.
Study objective: This study measures the childhood and lifecourse socioeconomic exposures of people born between 1871 and 1949, and then estimates the probability of death between 1965 and 1994, the...
Turrell, Gavin, Lynch, John W., Leite, Claudia, Raghunathan, Trivellore, Kaplan, George A.
Study objective: This study measures the childhood and lifecourse socioeconomic exposures of people born between 1871 and 1949, and then estimates the probability of death between 1965 and 1994, the...
Turrell, Gavin, Lynch, John W., Leite, Claudia, Raghunathan, Trivellore, Kaplan, George A.
Study objective: This study measures the childhood and lifecourse socioeconomic exposures of people born between 1871 and 1949, and then estimates the probability of death between 1965 and 1994, the...
Turrell, Gavin, Lynch, John W., Leite, Claudia, Raghunathan, Trivellore, Kaplan, George A.
Study objective: This study measures the childhood and lifecourse socioeconomic exposures of people born between 1871 and 1949, and then estimates the probability of death between 1965 and 1994, the...
Turrell, Gavin, Lynch, John W., Leite, Claudia, Raghunathan, Trivellore, Kaplan, George A.
Study objective: This study measures the childhood and lifecourse socioeconomic exposures of people born between 1871 and 1949, and then estimates the probability of death between 1965 and 1994, the...
Yang, Seungmi, Lynch, John W., Raghunathan, Trivellore E., Kauhanen, Jussi, Salonen, Jukka T., Kaplan, George A.
Despite recognition of the health risks of binge drinking, its life-course precursors have not been widely examined. Data from the Kuopio Ischemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study (1984–1989) were...
Turrell, Gavin, Lynch, John W., Leite, Claudia, Raghunathan, Trivellore, Kaplan, George A.
Study objective: This study measures the childhood and lifecourse socioeconomic exposures of people born between 1871 and 1949, and then estimates the probability of death between 1965 and 1994, the...
Modeling cortisol rhythms in a population-based study (2005)
Ranjit, Nalini, Young, Elizabeth A., Raghunathan, Trivellore E., Kaplan, George A.
Peer Reviewed
Kaplan, George A., Pollitt, Ricardo A., Daniel, Mark, Kaufman, Jay S., Lynch, John W., Salonen, Jukka T.
Hopelessness and hostility are linked to progression of carotid atherosclerosis (PCA). The purpose of this study was to replicate such relations and to evaluate the role of biological pathways...
Material hardship alters the diurnal rhythm of salivary cortisol (2005)
Ranjit, Nalini, Young, Elizabeth A, Kaplan, George A
Background In the quest for biological mechanisms underlying socioeconomic differences in health outcomes, attention has turned to the role of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis. As there...
Maty, Siobhan C, Everson-Rose, Susan A, Haan, Mary N, Raghunathan, Trivellore E, Kaplan, George A
Background Lower socioeconomic position (SEP) is related to higher prevalence of Type 2 diabetes, yet little is known about the relationship of SEP with incident diabetes. Methods The association...
Impact of economic crisis on cause-specific mortality in South Korea (2005)
Khang, Young-Ho, Lynch, John W., Kaplan, George A
Background Economic changes can be powerful determinants of health. In the late 1990s, South Korea experienced a steep economic decline. This study examines whether the massive economic changes...
Material hardship alters the diurnal rhythm of salivary cortisol (2005)
Ranjit, Nalini, Young, Elizabeth A., Kaplan, George A.
Background In the quest for biological mechanisms underlying socioeconomic differences in health outcomes, attention has turned to the role of the hypothalamicpituitary-adrenocortical axis. As there...
Maty, Siobhan C., Everson-Rose, Susan A., Haan, Mary N., Raghunathan, Trivellore E., Kaplan, George A.
Background Lower socioeconomic position (SEP) is related to higher prevalence of Type 2 diabetes, yet little is known about the relationship of SEP with incident diabetes. Methods The association...
Chor, Dóra, Faerstein, Eduardo, Kaplan, George A, Lynch, John W, Lopes, Claudia S
Background Adult weight gain is generally associated with ethnicity of African descent, in addition to low socioeconomic position (SEP), but little information is available from the African diaspora...
Khang, Young-Ho, Lynch, John W, Kaplan, George A
Background An ideological climate has persisted in Korea that has discouraged public discussion of social inequalities. Thus studies on inequalities in mortality remain undeveloped. This study is to...
Michigan Today (Vol. 35 No. 01) (2003)
Hoffman, Emily, Willet, Amani, Gnagey, Laurel Thomas, Ladford, Marcia, Wadley, Jared, Wargin, Ed, ...
Winter Issue
Socioeconomic position across the lifecourse and cognitive function in late middle age (2002)
Turrell, Gavin, Lynch, John W., Kaplan, George A., Everson, Susan A., Helkala, Eeva-Liisa, Kauhanen, Jussi, ...
Objectives: To examine the influence of childhood and adult socioeconomic position, socioeconomic mobility, and cumulative disadvantage across the lifecourse, on cognitive function in late middle...
Socioeconomic position across the lifecourse and cognitive function in late middle age (2002)
Turrell, Gavin, Lynch, John W., Kaplan, George A., Everson, Susan A., Helkala, Eeva-Liisa, Kauhanen, Jussi, ...
Objectives: To examine the influence of childhood and adult socioeconomic position, socioeconomic mobility, and cumulative disadvantage across the lifecourse, on cognitive function in late middle...
Socioeconomic position across the lifecourse and cognitive function in late middle age (2002)
Turrell, Gavin, Lynch, John W., Kaplan, George A., Everson, Susan A., Helkala, Eeva-Liisa, Kauhanen, Jussi, ...
Objectives: To examine the influence of childhood and adult socioeconomic position, socioeconomic mobility, and cumulative disadvantage across the lifecourse, on cognitive function in late middle...
Socioeconomic position across the lifecourse and cognitive function in late middle age (2002)
Turrell, Gavin, Lynch, John W., Kaplan, George A., Everson, Susan A., Helkala, Eeva-Liisa, Kauhanen, Jussi, ...
Objectives: To examine the influence of childhood and adult socioeconomic position, socioeconomic mobility, and cumulative disadvantage across the lifecourse, on cognitive function in late middle...
Socioeconomic position across the lifecourse and cognitive function in late middle age (2002)
Turrell, Gavin, Lynch, John W., Kaplan, George A., Everson, Susan A., Helkala, Eeva-Liisa, Kauhanen, Jussi, ...
Objectives: To examine the influence of childhood and adult socioeconomic position, socioeconomic mobility, and cumulative disadvantage across the lifecourse, on cognitive function in late middle...
Socioeconomic position across the lifecourse and cognitive function in late middle age (2002)
Turrell, Gavin, Lynch, John W., Kaplan, George A., Everson, Susan A., Helkala, Eeva-Liisa, Kauhanen, Jussi, ...
Objectives: To examine the influence of childhood and adult socioeconomic position, socioeconomic mobility, and cumulative disadvantage across the lifecourse, on cognitive function in late middle...
Socioeconomic position across the lifecourse and cognitive function in late middle age (2002)
Turrell, Gavin, Lynch, John W., Kaplan, George A., Everson, Susan A., Helkala, Eeva-Liisa, Kauhanen, Jussi, ...
Objectives: To examine the influence of childhood and adult socioeconomic position, socioeconomic mobility, and cumulative disadvantage across the lifecourse, on cognitive function in late middle...
Socioeconomic position across the lifecourse and cognitive function in late middle age (2002)
Turrell, Gavin, Lynch, John W., Kaplan, George A., Everson, Susan A., Helkala, Eeva-Liisa, Kauhanen, Jussi, ...
Objectives: To examine the influence of childhood and adult socioeconomic position, socioeconomic mobility, and cumulative disadvantage across the lifecourse, on cognitive function in late middle...
Laaksonen, David E., Lakka, Hanna-Maaria, Niskanen, Leo K., Kaplan, George A., Salonen, Jukka T., Lakka, Timo A.
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) recently proposed definitions for the metabolic syndrome. Little is known of their validity, however. The...
Life course socioeconomic conditions and adult psychosocial functioning (2002)
Harper, Sam, Lynch, John, Hsu, Wan-Ling, Everson, Susan A, Hillemeier, Marianne M, Raghunathan, Trivellore E, ...
Background Various psychosocial factors have been linked to adult physical health and are also associated with socioeconomic position in adulthood. We evaluated the effect of socioeconomic conditions...
Balfour, Jennifer L., Kaplan, George A.
Research suggests that neighborhood environment may influence functional health at an older age. This study examined the association between neighborhood problems and incidence of overall and...
Physical Activity Reduces the Risk of Subsequent Depression for Older Adults (2002)
Strawbridge, William J., Deleger, Stéphane, Roberts, Robert E., Kaplan, George A.
Previous studies assessing protective effects of physical activity on depression have had conflicting results; one recent study argued that excluding disabled subjects attenuated any observed...
Socioeconomic position across the lifecourse and cognitive function in late middle age (2002)
Turrell, Gavin, Lynch, John W., Kaplan, George A., Everson, Susan A., Helkala, Eeva-Liisa, Kauhanen, Jussi, ...
Objectives: To examine the influence of childhood and adult socioeconomic position, socioeconomic mobility, and cumulative disadvantage across the lifecourse, on cognitive function in late middle...
Childhood socioeconomic position and cognitive function in adulthood (2001)
Kaplan, George A, Turrell, Gavin, Lynch, John W, Everson, Susan A, Helkala, Eeva-Liisa, Salonen, Jukka T
Background Risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease is higher among adults with limited education, and the less educated perform poorer on cognitive function tests. This study determines whether the...
Wamala, Sarah P, Lynch, John, Kaplan, George A
Background Measures of low socioeconomic position have been associated with increased risk for coronary heart disease (CHD) among women. A more complete understanding of this association is gained...
Are the Obese at Greater Risk for Depression? (2000)
Roberts, Robert E., Kaplan, George A., Shema, Sarah J., Strawbridge, William J.
Two waves of data from a community-based study (Alameda County Study, 1994–1995) were used to investigate the association between obesity and depression. Depression was measured with 12 items...
RE: "PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE RISK IN MIDDLE-AGED AND OLDER WOMEN" (2000)
Strawbridge, William J., Cohen, Richard D., Kurata, John, Kaplan, George A.
Yen, Irene H., Kaplan, George A.
Recent reports suggest the importance of associations between residential area characteristics and health status, but most research uses only census data to measure these characteristics. The current...
Yen, Irene H., Kaplan, George A.
http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/51387/1/Yen IH, Neighborhood Social Environment and Risk, 1999.pdf
Hen, Irene H., Kaplan, George A.
http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/51384/1/Yen IH, Poverty Area Residence and Changes in physical activity, 1998.pdf
Everson, Susan A., Kauhanen, Jussi, Kaplan, George A., Goldberg, Debbie E., Julkunen, Juhani, Tuomilehto, Jaakko, ...
Cynical hostility has been associated with increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality; yet few studies have investigated this relation in population-based samples, and little is known about...
New Burdens or More of the Same? Comparing Grandparent, Spouse, and Adult-Child Caregivers (1997)
Strawbridge, William J., Wallhagen, Margaret I., Shema, Sarah J., Kaplan, George A.
This study compares the health of 42 grandparent, 44 spouse, and 130 adult-child caregivers with 1,669 noncaregivers in 1994 and 1974. In 1994, all three caregiver groups had poorer mental health...
Successful Aging: Predictors and Associated Activities (1996)
Strawbridge, William J., Cohen, Richard D., Shema, Sarah J., Kaplan, George A.
Six-year predictors of successful aging were analyzed for 356 Alameda County Study men and women aged 65–95 years measured prospectively in 1984 and followed to 1990. Successful aging was defined...
KAPLAN, GEORGE A, GOLDBERG, DEBBIE E, EVERSON, SUSAN A, COHEN, RICHARD D, SALONEN, RIITTA, TUOMILEHTO, JAAKKO, ...
Background Previous studies have reported an increased risk of death in those who report their is poor, however the role of underlying and subclinical disease in this association has not been...
Re: Differences in Lung Cancer Risk Between Men and Women: Examination of the Evidence (1996)
COHN, BARBARA A., WINGARD, DEBORAH L., ClRILLO, PlERA M., COHEN, RICHARD D., REYNOLDS, PEGGY, KAPLAN, GEORGE A.
Lynch, John W., Kaplan, George A., Cohen, Richard D., Tuomilehto, Jaakko, Salonen, Jukka T.
Much remains to be understood about how low socioeconomic status (SES) increases cardiovascular disease and mortality risk. Data from the Kuopio Ischemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study (1984–1993)...
Kaplan, George A., Strawbridge, William J., Cohen, Richard D., Hungerford, Laura R.
The association between leisure-time physical activity and 28-year (1965–1993) nsk of death from all causes and cardiovascular disease was studied in 6,131 adults who participated in the Alameda...
Wallhagen, Margaret I., Strawbridge, William J., Kaplan, George A., Cohen, Richard D.
We investigated the relationship between baseline internal health locus of control (IHLC) and 6-year change in physical functioning in 356 older adults. IHLC was strongly related to changein physical...
Wilson, Thomas W., Kaplan, George A., Kauhanen, Jussi, Cohen, Richard D., Wu, Melien, Salonen, Riitta, ...
The association between five socioeconomic indices (lifetime occupation, education, income, ownership of material possessions, and childhood socioeconomic status) and plasma flbrinogen levels was...
Strawbridge, William J., Camacho, Terry C., Cohen, Richard D., Kaplan, George A.
We compared 356 older men and women and found that income, education, and marital status had significantly stronger associations with 6-year change in functioning for men; internal health locus of...
Protective Factors and Social Risk Factors for Hospitalization and Mortality among Young Men (1992)
Romelsjö, Anders, Kaplan, George A., Cohen, Richard D., Allebeck, Peter, Andreasson, Sven
The association between presumed protective factors and social risk factors for hospitalization and mortality was studied during a 14-year follow-up period in a cohort of 8,168 Swedish men aged...
Physical Activity and Depression: Evidence from the Alameda County Study (1991)
Camacho, Terry C., Roberts, Robert E., Lazarus, Nancy B., Kaplan, George A., Cohen, Richard D.
The relation between level of physical activity and risk of subsequent depression was examined using three waves of data from the Alameda County Study. Among subjects who were not depressed at...
COHN, BARBARA A., WINGARD, DEBORAH L., COHEN, RICHARD D., CIRILLO, PIERA M., KAPLAN, GEORGE A.
In a previous analysis from the Alameda County Study, it was observed that although men had higher heart disease mortality rates than women, there was no male excess in the prevalence of...
SALONEN, JUKKA T, TUOMILEHTO, JAAKKO, NISSINEN, AULIKKI, KAPLAN, GEORGE A, PUSKA, PEKKA
Salonen J T (Department of Community Health and General Practice, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland), Tuomilehto J, Nissinen A, Kaplan G A and Puska P. Contribution of risk factor changes to the...
WINGARD, DEBORAH L., COHN, BARBARA A., KAPLAN, GEORGE A., CIRILLO, PIERA M, COHEN, RICHARD D.
Many studies indicate that women live longer than men but report more physical illness. This report is the first prospective study of sex ratios for morbidity and mortality due to a variety of causes...
KAPLAN, GEORGE A., SALONEN, JUKKA T., COHEN, RICHARD D., BRAND, RICHARD J., LEONARD SYME, S., PUSKA, PEKKA
The association between an a priori measure of social connections and five-year mortality from all causes, cardiovascular diseases (International Classification of Diseases, Eighth Revision (ICD-8)...
KAPLAN, GEORGE A., COHN, BARBARA A., COHEN, RICHARD D., GURALNIK, JACK
The contribution of secular changes in the distribution of ischemic heart disease risk factors and medical care utilization to the decline In ischemic heart disease mortality was investigated using...
COHN, BARBARA A., KAPLAN, GEORGE A., COHEN, RICHARD D.
In a previous study, the authors reported a 45 per cent decline in Ischemic heart disease mortality between cohorts selected to be representative of Alameda County, California, in 1965 and 1974. The...
POVERTY AND HEALTH PROSPECTIVE EVIDENCE FROM THE ALAMEDA COUNTY STUDY1 (1987)
HAAN, MARY, KAPLAN, GEORGE A., CAMACHO, TERRY
To examine the reasons for the association between socioeconomic status and poor health, the authors examined the nine-year mortality experience of a random sample of residents aged 35 and over in...
SOCIAL NETWORK TIES AND MORTALITY AMONG TILE ELDERLY IN THE ALAMEDA COUNTY STUDY (1987)
SEEMAN, TERESA E., KAPLAN, GEORGE A., KNUDSEN, LISA, COHEN, RICHARD, GURALNIK, JACK
Seeman, T. E. (Dept of Epidemiology and Public Health, School of Medicine, Yale U., New Haven, CT 06510), G. A. Kaplan, L Knudsen, R. Cohen, and J. Quratnik. Social network ties and mortality among...
KAPLAN, GEORGE A., ROBERTS, ROBERT E., CAMACHO, TERRY C., COYNE, JAMES C.
The association between status attributes, personal resources, life stress, physical health, and occurrence of depressive symptoms nine years later was assessed by the 1965 Human Population...
Ross, Nancy A, Wolfson, Michael C, Dunn, James R, Berthelot, Jean-Marie, Kaplan, George A, Lynch, John W
Hillemeier, Marianne M., Lynch, John, Harper, Sam, Raghunathan, Trivellore, Kaplan, George A.
Objectives. The purpose of the present study was to compare the associations of state-referenced and federal poverty measures with states’ infant and child mortality rates.
Ross, Nancy A, Wolfson, Michael C, Dunn, James R, Berthelot, Jean-Marie, Kaplan, George A, Lynch, John W
Hillemeier, Marianne M., Lynch, John, Harper, Sam, Raghunathan, Trivellore, Kaplan, George A.
Objectives. The purpose of the present study was to compare the associations of state-referenced and federal poverty measures with states’ infant and child mortality rates.
Voutilainen, Sari, Tuomainen, Tomi-Pekka, Korhonen, Maarit, Mursu, Jaakko, Virtanen, Jyrki K., Happonen, Pertti, ...
The Health of Poor Women Under Welfare Reform
Kaplan, George A., Siefert, Kristine, Ranjit, Nalini, Raghunathan, Trivellore E., Young, Elizabeth A., Tran, Diem, ...
Objectives. We compared the health of single mothers affected by welfare reform with the health of a nationally representative sample of women to document the prevalence of poor health as single...
Lynch, John, Harper, Sam, Kaplan, George A., Davey Smith, George
Objectives. We used census data to examine associations between income inequality and mortality among US states for each decade from 1949 to 1999 and tax return income data to estimate associations...
Baltrus, Peter T., Lynch, John W., Everson-Rose, Susan, Raghunathan, Trivellore E., Kaplan, George A.
Objectives. We investigated whether race differences in weight gain over 34 years were because of socioeconomic position (SEP) and psychosocial and behavioral factors (physical activity, cigarette...
Inequality in income and mortality in US
Kaplan, George A, Lynch, John W, Cohen, Richard D, Balfour, Jennifer L, Pamuk, Elsie R