George A. Kaplan

The Poor Pay More-Poverty's High Cost to Health (2009)

Kaplan, George A.

http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/64129/1/The Poor Pay More-Povertys High Cost to Health_2009.pdf

ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS Neighborhood Social Environment and Risk of Death: Multilevel Evidence from the Alameda County Study (2008)

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...

Occupational physical activity, energy expenditure and 11-year progression of carotid atherosclerosis (2007)

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...

Income inequality and mortality: a multilevel prospective study of 521 248 individuals in 50 US states (2007)

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...

The shape of health to come: prospective study of the determinants of 30-year health trajectories in the Alameda County Study (2007)

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....

Socioeconomic Disadvantage in Childhood and Across the Life Course and All-Cause Mortality and Physical Function in Adulthood : Evidence from the Alameda County Study (2007)

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...

Socioeconomic Disadvantage in Childhood and Across the Life Course and All-Cause Mortality and Physical Function in Adulthood : Evidence from the Alameda County Study (2007)

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)

Kaplan, George A.

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)

George A. Kaplan

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...

Socioeconomic Disadvantage in Childhood and Across the Life Course and All-Cause Mortality and Physical Function in Adulthood : Evidence from the Alameda County Study (2007)

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...

Socioeconomic Disadvantage in Childhood and Across the Life Course and All-Cause Mortality and Physical Function in Adulthood : Evidence from the Alameda County Study (2007)

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...

Socioeconomic Disadvantage in Childhood and Across the Life Course and All-Cause Mortality and Physical Function in Adulthood : Evidence from the Alameda County Study (2007)

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...

Socioeconomic Disadvantage in Childhood and Across the Life Course and All-Cause Mortality and Physical Function in Adulthood : Evidence from the Alameda County Study (2007)

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...

Socioeconomic Disadvantage in Childhood and Across the Life Course and All-Cause Mortality and Physical Function in Adulthood : Evidence from the Alameda County Study (2007)

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...

Socioeconomic and Psychosocial Exposures across the Life Course and Binge Drinking in Adulthood: Population-based Study (2007)

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...

Socioeconomic Disadvantage in Childhood and Across the Life Course and All-Cause Mortality and Physical Function in Adulthood : Evidence from the Alameda County Study (2007)

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...

Mediation and Modification of the Association Between Hopelessness, Hostility, and Progression of Carotid Atherosclerosis (2005)

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...

Education, income, occupation, and the 34-year incidence (1965-99) of Type 2 diabetes in the Alameda County Study (2005)

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...

Education, income, occupation, and the 34-year incidence (1965-99) of Type 2 diabetes in the Alameda County Study (2005)

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...

Association of weight change with ethnicity and life course socioeconomic position among Brazilian civil servants (2004)

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...

Health inequalities in Korea: age- and sex-specific educational differences in the 10 leading causes of death (2004)

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...

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...

Metabolic Syndrome and Development of Diabetes Mellitus: Application and Validation of Recently Suggested Definitions of the Metabolic Syndrome in a Prospective Cohort Study (2002)

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...

Neighborhood Environment and Loss of Physical Function in Older Adults: Evidence from the Alameda County Study (2002)

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...

Women's exposure to early and later life socioeconomic disadvantage and coronary heart disease risk: the Stockholm Female Coronary Risk Study (2001)

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...

Neighborhood Social Environment and Risk of Death: Multilevel Evidence from the Alameda County Study (1999)

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...

Neighborhood Social Environment and Risk of Death: Multilevel Evidence from the Alameda County Study (1998)

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

Poverty Area Residence and Changes in Physical Activity Level: Evidence From the Alameda County Study (1998)

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

Hostility and Increased Risk of Mortality and Acute Myocardial Infarction: The Mediating Role of Behavioral Risk Factors (1997)

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...

Perceived Health Status and Morbidity and Mortality: Evidence from the Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study (1996)

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...

Do Cardiovascular Risk Factors Explain the Relation between Socioeconomic Status, Risk of All-Cause Mortality, Cardiovascular Mortality, and Acute Myocardial Infarction? (1996)

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)...

Natural History of Leisure-time Physical Activity and Its Correlates: Associations with Mortality from All Causes and Cardiovascular Disease Over 28 Years (1996)

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...

Impact of Internal Health Locus of Control on Health Outcomes for Older Men and Women: A Longitudinal Perspective (1994)

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...

Association between Plasma Fibrinogen Concentration and Five Socioeconomic Indices in the Kuopio Ischemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study (1993)

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...

Gender Differences in Factors Associated With Change in Physical Functioning in Old Age: A 6-Year Longitudinal Study (1993)

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...

SEX DIFFERENCES IN TIME FROM SELF-REPORTED HEART TROUBLE TO HEART DISEASE DEATH IN THE ALAMEDA COUNTY STUDY: SIGNIFICANCE OF TIME DEPENDENCE OF RISK VARIABLE EFFECTS (1990)

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...

Contribution of Risk Factor Changes to the Decline in Coronary Incidence During the North Karelia Project: A Within-Community Analysis (1989)

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...

SEX DIFFERENTIALS IN MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY RISKS EXAMINED BY AGE AND CAUSE IN THE SAME COHORT (1989)

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...

SOCIAL CONNECTIONS AND MORTALITY FROM ALL CAUSES AND FROM CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE: PROSPECTIVE EVIDENCE FROM EASTERN FINLAND (1988)

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)...

THE DECLINE IN ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE MORTALITY: PROSPECTIVE EVIDENCE FROM THE ALAMEDA COUNTY STUDY (1988)

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...

DID EARLY DETECTION AND TREATMENT CONTRIBUTE TO THE DECLINE IN ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE MORTALITY? PROSPECTIVE EVIDENCE FROM THE ALAMEDA COUNTY STUDY (1988)

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...

PSYCHOSOCIAL PREDICTORS OF DEPRESSION: PROSPECTIVE EVIDENCE FROM THE HUMAN POPULATION LABORATORY STUDIES (1987)

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...

Relative or Absolute Standards for Child Poverty: A State-Level Analysis of Infant and Child Mortality

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.

Relative or Absolute Standards for Child Poverty: A State-Level Analysis of Infant and Child Mortality

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.

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...

Associations Between Income Inequality and Mortality Among US States: The Importance of Time Period and Source of Income Data

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...

Race/Ethnicity, Life-Course Socioeconomic Position, and Body Weight Trajectories Over 34 years: The Alameda County Study

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...