Ahern, Jennifer, Galea, Sandro, Hubbard, Alan, Syme, S. Leonard
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"Culture of Drinking" and Individual Problems with Alcohol Use (2008)
Ahern, Jennifer, Galea, Sandro, Hubbard, Alan, Midanik, Lorraine, Syme, S. Leonard
Binge drinking is a substantial and growing health problem. Community norms about drinking and drunkenness may influence individual drinking problems. Using data from the New York Social Environment...
Pathways to health: a framework for health-focused research and practice (2006)
Fleischer, Nancy L, Weber, Ann M, Gruber, Susan, Arambula, Karina Z, Mascarenhas, Maya, Frasure, Jessica A, ...
Abstract Public health research and practice is faced with three problems: 1) a focus on disease instead of health, 2) consideration of risk factor/disease relationships one at a time, and 3)...
Historical Perspective: The social determinants of disease – some roots of the movement (2005)
Abstract This is an account of the early days of research on social determinants as I experienced them. I describe my time as one of four Fellows in a new training program in Medical Sociology at...
Longitudinal Prediction of Adult Blood Pressure from Juvenile Blood Pressure Levels (1992)
Nelson, Mary J., Ragland, David R., Syme, S. Leonard
The link between blood pressure measured at juvenile ages (3–18 years) and subsequent adult ages (30 and 50 years) was investigated in a community-based longitudinal study conducted in the San...
The Wellness Guide: towards a new model for community participation in health promotion (1992)
SCHWAB, MICHAEL, NEUHAUSER, LINDA, MARGEN, SHELDON, SYME, S. LEONARD, OGAR, DALE, ROPPEL, CHARLES, ...
This paper describes how community participation came to play a central role in developing the Wellness Guide Project, a major new health promotion initiative of the State of California. The Guide...
Sorel, Janet E., Ragland, David R., Syme, S. Leonard, Davis, Wayne B.
An inverse association between socioeconomic status, as measured by years of education, and blood pressure has been reported in a number of studies. However, two secular trends may have changed the...
Sorel, Janet E., Ragland, David R., Syme, S. Leonard
Previous studies of Mexican Americans have shown mean diastolic and systolic blood pressures and prevalence rates of hypertension which are either lower than or similar to those for non-Hispanic...
Hostility and Coronary Artery Disease (1991)
Helmer, Dianne C., Ragland, David R., Syme, S. Leonard
Studies of the association between type A behavior and coronary heart disease have yielded inconsistent findings. A possible explanation for these inconsistent findings is that type A behavior is...
SHARP, DAN S., BENOWITZ, NEAL L., OSTERLOH, JOHN D., BECKER, CHARLES E., SMITH, ALLAN H., SYME, S. LEONARD
A number of studies have suggested a small to moderate positive relation between blood pressure and blood lead concentration in males (2–4 mmHg/in(μg/dl)). However, this 1986 study of San...
SHOHAM-YAKUBOVICH, ILANA, RAGLAND, DAVID R., BRAND, RICHARD J., SYME, S. LEONARD
Type A/B behavior has been studied extensively as a risk factor for coronary heart disease. This study tests the hypothesis that Type A/B behavior is associated with ill health in general....
WINKLEBY, MARILYN A, RAGLAND, DAVID R, FISHER, JUNE M, SYME, S LEONARD
In an extensive search of available liteature, 22 epidemiological studies that have examined health risks of bus drivers were identified. These studies focus on three main disease categories: (1)...
SELF-REPORTED STRESSORS AND HYPERTENSION: EVIDENCE OF AN INVERSE ASSOCIATION (1988)
WINKLEBY, MARILYN A., RAGLAND, DAVID R., SYME, S. LEONARD
This paper presents an analysis of self-reported stressors and blood pressure in a population of 1,428 San Francisco bus drivers surveyed from 1983 to 1985 as part of an occupational health study. To...
HEIGHTENED RISK OF HYPERTENSION AMONG BLACK MALES: THE MASKING EFFECTS OF COVARIABLES (1988)
WINKLEBY, MARILYN A., RAGLAND, DAVID R., SYME, S. LEONARD, FISHER, JUNE M.
This study examines the extent to which a set of 10 demographic, behavioral, and medical risk factors explain black/white differences in hypertension. Data are from a cross-sectional examination...
Prevalence of Hypertension in Bus Drivers (1987)
RAGLAND, DAVID R, WINKLEBY, MARILYN A, SCHWALBE, JOAN, HOLMAN, BARBARA L, MORSE, LINDA, SYME, S LEONARD, ...
This paper reports the results of a cross-sectional study conducted to evaluate the prevalence of hypertension in 1500 black and white male bus drivers from a large urban transit system in the US....
ACCULTURATION AND CORONARY HEART DISEASE AMONG JAPANESE MEN IN HAWAII (1982)
REED, DWAYNE, MCGEE, DANIEL, COHEN, JUDITH, YANO, KATSUHIKO, SYME, S.LEONARD, FEINLEIB, MANNING
A cohort of 4653 men of Japanese ancestry living in Hawaii, with traditional Japanese social and cultural lifestyles, were studied for the association of the prevalence and incidence of coronary...
BERKMAN, LISA F., SYME, S. LEONARD
The relationship between social and community ties and mortality was assessed using the 1965 Human Population Laboratory survey of a random sample of 6928 adults in Alameda County, California and a...
ACCULTURATION AND CORONARY HEART DISEASE IN JAPANESE-AMERICANS (1976)
MARMOT, MICHAEL G., SYME, S. LEONARD
Among men of Japanese ancestry, there is a gradient in the occurrence of coronary heart disease (CHD). It is lowest in Japan, intermediate in Hawaii, and highest in California. This gradient appears...
Historical Perspective: The social determinants of disease – some roots of the movement
This is an account of the early days of research on social determinants as I experienced them. I describe my time as one of four Fellows in a new training program in Medical Sociology at Yale...
Pathways to health: a framework for health-focused research and practice
Fleischer, Nancy L, Weber, Ann M, Gruber, Susan, Arambula, Karina Z, Mascarenhas, Maya, Frasure, Jessica A, ...
Public health research and practice is faced with three problems: 1) a focus on disease instead of health, 2) consideration of risk factor/disease relationships one at a time, and 3) attention to...
Historical Perspective: The social determinants of disease – some roots of the movement
This is an account of the early days of research on social determinants as I experienced them. I describe my time as one of four Fellows in a new training program in Medical Sociology at Yale...
Work Time and 11-Year Progression of Carotid Atherosclerosis in Middle-Aged Finnish Men
Krause, Niklas, Brand, Richard J., Wong, Candice C., Kauhanen, Jussi, Kaplan, George A., Syme, S. Leonard, ...
Neuhauser, Linda, Constantine, Wendy L., Constantine, Norman A., Sokal-Gutierrez, Karen, Obarski, Susan K., Clayton, Lacy, ...
Objectives. There is a critical need for effective, large-scale health communication programs to support parents of children aged 0–5 years. We evaluated the effectiveness of the Kit for New...