Harper et al. Respond to "Measuring Social Disparities in Health" (2008)
Harper, Sam, Lynch, John, Meersman, Stephen C., Breen, Nancy, Davis, William W., Reichman, Marsha E.
Harper, Sam, Lynch, John, Meersman, Stephen C., Breen, Nancy, Davis, William W., Reichman, Marsha E.
The authors provide an overview of methods for summarizing social disparities in health using the example of lung cancer. They apply four measures of relative disparity and three measures of absolute...
Harper, Sam, Lynch, John, Meersman, Stephen C., Breen, Nancy, Davis, William W., Reichman, Marsha E.
Socioeconomic differentials in cause-specific mortality among South Korean adolescents (2007)
Cho, Hong-Jun, Khang, Young-Ho, Yang, Seungmi, Harper, Sam, Lynch, John W
Background There is inconsistent evidence regarding the presence of a socioeconomic differential in adolescent all-cause and cause-specific mortality. This study examines possible socioeconomic...
Socioeconomic differentials in cause-specific mortality among South Korean adolescents (2006)
Cho, Hong-Jun, Khang, Young-Ho, Yang, Seungmi, Harper, Sam, Lynch, John W.
Background There is inconsistent evidence regarding the presence of a socioeconomic differential in adolescent all-cause and cause-specific mortality. This study examines possible socioeconomic...
Lynch, John, Harper, Sam, Kaplan, George, Davey Smith, George
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Healthy People 2010 has two overarching goals: to increase the span of healthy life and to eliminate health disparities across the categories of gender, race or ethnicity, education or income,...
Contextual effect of income inequality on birth outcomes (2005)
Huynh, Mary, Parker, Jennifer D., Harper, Sam, Pamuk, Elsie, Schoendorf, Kenneth C.
Background Though associations between income inequality and birth outcome have been suggested, mechanisms underlying this relationship are not known. In this analysis, we examined the relationship...
Contextual effect of income inequality on birth outcomes (2005)
Huynh, Mary, Parker, Jennifer D, Harper, Sam, Pamuk, Elsie, Schoendorf, Kenneth C
Background Though associations between income inequality and birth outcome have been suggested, mechanisms underlying this relationship are not known. In this analysis, we examined the relationship...
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...
Commentary: Using innovative inequality measures in epidemiology (0000)
Zhang and Wang1 use the concentration index (CI) to examine changes in income-related inequalities in overweight among US adolescents (aged 10Â18) between 1971 and 2000. Their findings were...
John Lynch, George Davey Smith, Jim Dunn, Sam Harper, Nancy Ross, Michael Wolfson
We examined the concordance of income inequality trends with 30-year US regional trends in cause-specific mortality and 100-year trends in heart disease and infant mortality. The evidence suggests...
John Lynch, George Davey Smith, Jim Dunn, Sam Harper, Nancy Ross, Michael Wolfson
We examined the concordance of income inequality trends with 30-year US regional trends in cause-specific mortality and 100-year trends in heart disease and infant mortality. The evidence suggests...
Measuring Contextual Characteristics for Community Health
Hillemeier, Marianne M, Lynch, John, Harper, Sam, Casper, Michele
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.
Kelleher, C. Cecily, Lynch, John, Harper, Sam, Tay, Joseph B., Nolan, Geraldine
Objectives. We performed a historical review of cardiovascular risk profiles of Irish immigrants to the United States, 1850–1970, in regard to lifestyle, socio-economic circumstances, and social...
Measuring Contextual Characteristics for Community Health
Hillemeier, Marianne M, Lynch, John, Harper, Sam, Casper, Michele
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.
Kelleher, C. Cecily, Lynch, John, Harper, Sam, Tay, Joseph B., Nolan, Geraldine
Objectives. We performed a historical review of cardiovascular risk profiles of Irish immigrants to the United States, 1850–1970, in regard to lifestyle, socio-economic circumstances, and social...
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...
Commentary: Using innovative inequality measures in epidemiology
Zhang and Wang1 use the concentration index (CI) to examine changes in income-related inequalities in overweight among US adolescents (aged 1018) between 1971 and 2000. Their findings were...