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Hedwig Eugenie Lee

Hedwig Eugenie Lee

James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Sociology
Sociology

Selected Publications

Male twinning after the 2008 Obama election: A test of symbolic empowerment.

Journal Article Social science & medicine (1982) · September 2024 On November 4, 2008, Barack Obama was elected the first Black President of the United States. His campaign and electoral win served as a symbol of hope for a more just future, fostering an "Obama effect" that appears associated with improved well-being amo ... Full text Cite

Vanishing twins, spared cohorts, and the birthweight of periviable infants born to Black and white women in the United States.

Journal Article Science advances · September 2024 Pregnancies ending before 26 weeks contribute 1% of births but 40% of infant deaths in the United States. The rate of these "periviable" births to non-Hispanic (NH) Black women exceeds four times that for NH whites. Small male periviable infants remain mos ... Full text Cite

Dynamic changes in place-based measures of structural racism and preterm birth in the USA.

Journal Article Journal of epidemiology and community health · June 2024 BackgroundStructurally racist systems, ideologies and processes generate and reinforce inequities among minoritised racial/ethnic groups. Prior cross-sectional literature finds that place-based structural racism, such as the Index of Concentration ... Full text Cite

A Systematic Review of the State of Neurosurgical Disparities Research: Past, Present, and Future.

Journal Article World neurosurgery · February 2024 BackgroundThe social determinants of health, which influence healthcare access, patient outcomes, and population-level burden of disease, contribute to health disparities experienced by marginalized patient populations. In the present study, we so ... Full text Cite

How Does Structural Racism Operate (in) the Contemporary US Criminal Justice System?

Journal Article Annual Review of Criminology · January 26, 2024 I describe how cultural and structural racism operate the entire contemporary American criminal justice system via five features: devaluation of certain human lives, ubiquitous adaptation, networked structure, perceived neutrality, and temporal amnesia. I ... Full text Cite

Mass Probation: Effects of Sentencing Severity on Mental Health for Black and White Individuals.

Journal Article Epidemiology · January 1, 2024 BACKGROUND: Incarceration is associated with negative impacts on mental health. Probation, a form of community supervision, has been lauded as an alternative. However, the effect of probation versus incarceration on mental health is unclear. Our objective ... Full text Link to item Cite

Missing Black males among preterm births in the US, 1995 to 2019.

Journal Article PloS one · January 2024 BackgroundIn the US, non-Hispanic (NH) Black birthing persons show a two-fold greater risk of fetal death relative to NH white birthing persons. Since males more than females show a greater risk of fetal death, such loss in utero may affect the se ... Full text Cite

Bodily Harm: The Health Consequences of Policing in the United States

Journal Article California Law Review · January 1, 2024 Full text Cite

Medical student specialty decision-making and perceptions of neurosurgery. Part 2: Role of race/ethnicity.

Journal Article Journal of neurosurgery · December 2023 ObjectiveAlthough individuals underrepresented in medicine (URM) make up 33% of the United States population, only 12.6% of medical school graduates identify as URM; the same percentage of URM students comprises neurosurgery residency applicants. ... Full text Cite

Medical student specialty decision-making and perceptions of neurosurgery. Part 1: Role of gender.

Journal Article Journal of neurosurgery · December 2023 ObjectiveAlthough women account for 50% of medical school graduates, less than 30% of neurosurgery residency applicants and less than 10% of neurosurgeons are female. In order to diversify the field of neurosurgery and recruit more women, it is ne ... Full text Cite

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Housing Instability During the COVID-19 Pandemic: the Role of Assets and Income Shocks

Journal Article Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy · June 1, 2023 Stable and adequate housing is critical to sound public health responses in the midst of a pandemic. This study explores the disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on housing-related hardships across racial/ethnic groups in the USA as well as the ... Full text Cite

State-Level Variation in the Cumulative Prevalence of Child Welfare System Contact, 2015-2019.

Journal Article Children and youth services review · April 2023 BackgroundPrior estimates of the cumulative risks of child welfare system contact illustrate the prominence of this system in the lives of children in the United States (U.S.). However, these estimates report national data on a system administered ... Full text Cite

Policing and Population Health: Past, Present, and Future.

Journal Article The Milbank quarterly · April 2023 Policy Points A growing body of research suggests that policing, as a form of state-sanctioned racial violence, operates as a social determinant of population health and racial or ethnic health disparities. A lack of compulsory, comprehensive data on inter ... Full text Cite

Racial/ethnic differences in the relationship between wealth and health across young adulthood.

Journal Article SSM - population health · March 2023 •Wealth attenuated racial differences in self-rated health during young adulthood.•Wealth had consistent incremental effect on health among White & Hispanic Americans.•For Black Americans, wealth was protective of health in the highest wealth quartile.•Ind ... Full text Cite

Remembering St. Louis individual-structural violence and acute bacterial infections in a historical anatomical collection.

Journal Article Communications biology · October 2022 Incomplete documentary evidence, variable biomolecular preservation, and limited skeletal responses have hindered assessment of acute infections in the past. This study was initially developed to explore the diagnostic potential of dental calculus to ident ... Full text Cite

Representation of female neurosurgeons as abstract authors at neurological surgery conferences.

Journal Article Journal of neurosurgery · October 2022 ObjectiveFemale neurosurgeon representation has increased, but women still represent only 8.4% of neurosurgeons in the US. Women are significantly underrepresented as authors in neurosurgical and spine journals, a key indicator of professional suc ... Full text Cite

Vicarious exposure to the criminal legal system among parents and siblings

Journal Article Journal of Marriage and Family · October 1, 2022 Objective: This study documents life course patterns of vicarious exposure to the criminal legal system among parents and siblings in the United States. Background: The criminal legal system shapes family outcomes in important ways. Still, life course patt ... Full text Cite

Highly public anti-Black violence and preterm birth odds for Black and White mothers

Journal Article SSM - Population Health · June 1, 2022 Highly public anti-Black violence may increase preterm birth in the general population of pregnant women via stress-mediated paths, particularly Black women exposed in early gestation. To examine spillover from racial violence in the US, we included a tota ... Full text Cite

Indebted by Proxy: How Women Are Faring Under the Carceral State

Chapter · January 1, 2022 This chapter explores the common trope that people must “pay their debt to society” when individuals are convicted of crimes. What is generally meant by this trope is that an individual should suffer prison or jail incarceration, state supervision after re ... Full text Cite

Early life patterns of criminal legal system involvement:Inequalities by race/ethnicity, gender, and parental education

Journal Article Demographic Research · January 1, 2022 BACKGROUND Contacts with the criminal legal system have consequences for a host of outcomes. Still,early life age patterns of system involvement remain to be better understood.,OBJECTIVE,We estimate cumulative risks of arrest, probation, and incarceration ... Full text Cite

Assessing mass incarceration's effects on families.

Journal Article Science (New York, N.Y.) · October 2021 In this Review, we assess how mass incarceration, a monumental American policy experiment, has affected families over the past five decades. We reach four conclusions. First, family member incarceration is now common for American families. Second, individu ... Full text Cite

Theory and empiricism: A comment on "Interrogating the environmental affordances model" by Pamplin and colleagues.

Journal Article Social science & medicine (1982) · September 2021 We strongly support efforts to generate, rigorously test, and falsify hypotheses derived from the Environmental Affordances (EA) Model of Health Disparities, as originated by the late Dr. James S. Jackson (1940-2020). Such efforts are critical to establish ... Full text Cite

Women's Health in the Era of Mass Incarceration.

Book · July 2021 Dramatic increases in criminal justice contact in the United States have rendered prison and jail incarceration common for US men and their loved ones, with possible implications for women's health. This review provides the most expansive critical discussi ... Full text Cite

Systematic review and meta-analysis of depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation among Ph.D. students.

Journal Article Scientific reports · July 2021 University administrators and mental health clinicians have raised concerns about depression and anxiety among Ph.D. students, yet no study has systematically synthesized the available evidence in this area. After searching the literature for studies repor ... Full text Cite

Exposure to Family Member Incarceration and Adult Well-being in the United States.

Journal Article JAMA network open · May 2021 ImportanceMore than half of the adult population in the United States has ever had a family member incarcerated, an experience more common among Black individuals. The impacts of family incarceration on well-being are not fully understood.Obje ... Full text Cite

Proliferation or adaptation? Differences across race and sex in the relationship between time served in prison and mental health symptoms.

Journal Article Social science & medicine (1982) · May 2021 Guided by stress proliferation and adaptation perspectives, this study investigates competing hypotheses for the relationship between time served in prison and mental health symptoms. Drawing on data from the Survey of Inmates in State Correctional Facilit ... Full text Cite

Highly public anti-Black violence is associated with poor mental health days for Black Americans.

Journal Article Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · April 2021 Highly public anti-Black violence in the United States may cause widely experienced distress for Black Americans. This study identifies 49 publicized incidents of racial violence and quantifies national interest based on Google searches; incidents include ... Full text Cite

Legacies of Racial Violence: Clarifying and Addressing the Presence of the Past

Journal Article Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science · March 1, 2021 Scholars increasingly agree that histories of racial violence relate to contemporary patterns of conflict and inequality, and growing interest exists among civic leaders in reckoning with these legacies today. This volume examines the contributions and lim ... Full text Cite

White Health Benefits of Histories of Enslavement: The Case of Opioid Deaths

Journal Article Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science · March 1, 2021 Popular media and researchers have given increasing attention to the perceived growing alienation and despair of white Americans. The narrative of white decline has been particularly robust in light of the recent uptick in premature deaths of whites from o ... Full text Cite

(Dis)Continuities in Racialized Legal Violence

Journal Article Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science · March 1, 2021 Amid growing research on the history and legacies of racist violence in the United States, there has been limited development of theory and measurement pertaining to racist violence as a sociological process. Social science research has centered on lynchin ... Full text Cite

Geographic Variation in Reproductive Health Among the Black Population in the US: An Analysis of Nativity, Region of Origin, and Division of Residence

Journal Article Population Research and Policy Review · February 1, 2021 Reproductive health outcomes are indicators of larger social processes and researchers have long documented inequalities in these outcomes among Blacks and Whites in the United States. However, we do not fully understand the underlying mechanisms responsib ... Full text Cite

Exculpating Injustice: Coroner Constructions of White Innocence in the Postbellum South

Journal Article Socius · January 1, 2021 Research notes the broad complicity of white public officials in historical racial violence and repression. These discussions emphasize the role of criminal justice actors in perpetrating and enabling this repression. Extending this assessment, the authors ... Full text Cite

Neither mad nor bad? The classification of antisocial personality disorder among formerly incarcerated adults.

Journal Article Social science & medicine (1982) · November 2020 Using the National Comorbidity Survey, this study explores the presence and symptoms of antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) among people with varying degrees of contact with the criminal justice system. The study finds an elevated prevalence of ASPD amo ... Full text Cite

Partner Incarceration and Women's Substance Use

Journal Article Journal of Marriage and Family · August 1, 2020 Objective: This study examines whether the incarceration of women's partners is associated with their own drug, alcohol, and cigarette use. Background: Partners of incarcerated men face a number of stressors, including deteriorating relationships and econo ... Full text Cite

Illness spillovers of lethal police violence: the significance of gendered marginalization

Journal Article Ethnic and Racial Studies · January 1, 2020 Police violence is a pressing public health problem. To gauge the illness associations of police killings–the most severe form of police brutality, we compile a unique multilevel dataset that nests individual-level health data from the 2009–2013 New York C ... Full text Cite

Barring progress: The influence of paternal incarceration on families' neighborhood attainment.

Journal Article Social science research · November 2019 A growing body of literature has recognized that incarceration has implications beyond the offender, with detrimental effects reverberating onto families. In this study, we use the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N = 3288) to investigate the re ... Full text Cite

Racial/ethnic disparities

Chapter · September 13, 2019 Black, Hispanic/Latinx, and Native American men and women are overrepresented in the criminal justice system, including arrests, convictions, and incarceration, which means their children are also disproportionately affected. Although these disparities oft ... Full text Cite

Obesity risk factors in American Indians and Alaska Natives: a systematic review.

Journal Article Public health · September 2019 ObjectivesWe systematically reviewed the literature on risk factors for obesity in American Indians (AIs) and Alaska Natives (ANs) of all ages.Study designWe searched titles and abstracts in PubMed with combinations of the following terms ... Full text Cite

Risk of being killed by police use of force in the United States by age, race-ethnicity, and sex.

Journal Article Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · August 2019 We use data on police-involved deaths to estimate how the risk of being killed by police use of force in the United States varies across social groups. We estimate the lifetime and age-specific risks of being killed by police by race and sex. We also provi ... Full text Cite

Health Consequences of Family Member Incarceration for Adults in the Household.

Journal Article Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974) · May 2019 Full text Cite

What Percentage of Americans Have Ever Had a Family Member Incarcerated?: Evidence from the Family History of Incarceration Survey (FamHIS)

Journal Article Socius · January 1, 2019 What percentage of Americans have ever had a family member incarcerated? To answer this question, we designed the Family History of Incarceration Survey (FamHIS). The survey was administered in the summer of 2018 by NORC at the University of Chicago using ... Full text Cite

Racism and the Health of White Americans.

Journal Article The American journal of bioethics : AJOB · October 2018 Full text Cite

Promises and Pitfalls of Using Digital Traces for Demographic Research.

Journal Article Demography · October 2018 The digital traces that we leave online are increasingly fruitful sources of data for social scientists, including those interested in demographic research. The collection and use of digital data also presents numerous statistical, computational, and ethic ... Full text Cite

Risk of Police-Involved Death by Race/Ethnicity and Place, United States, 2012-2018.

Journal Article American journal of public health · September 2018 ObjectivesTo estimate the risk of mortality from police homicide by race/ethnicity and place in the United States.MethodsWe used novel data on police-involved fatalities and Bayesian models to estimate mortality risk for Black, Latino, an ... Full text Cite

The weight of racism: Vigilance and racial inequalities in weight-related measures.

Journal Article Social science & medicine (1982) · February 2018 In the United States, racial/ethnic inequalities in obesity are well-documented, particularly among women. Using the Chicago Community Adult Health Study, a probability-based sample in 2001-2003 (N = 3105), we examined the roles of discrimination and vigil ... Full text Cite

Stress, self-regulation, and context: Evidence from the health and retirement survey

Journal Article SSM - Population Health · December 1, 2017 Health-related behaviors, such as smoking, alcohol use, exercise, and diet, are major determinants of physical health and health disparities. However, a growing body of experimental research in humans and animals also suggests these behaviors can impact th ... Full text Cite

Using Twitter for Demographic and Social Science Research: Tools for Data Collection and Processing

Journal Article Sociological Methods and Research · August 1, 2017 Despite recent and growing interest in using Twitter to examine human behavior and attitudes, there is still significant room for growth regarding the ability to leverage Twitter data for social science research. In particular, gleaning demographic informa ... Full text Cite

The consequences of contact with the criminal justice system for health in the transition to adulthood

Journal Article Longitudinal and Life Course Studies · January 1, 2017 A rapidly growing literature has documented the adverse social, economic and, recently, health impacts of experiencing incarceration in the United States. Despite the insights that this work has provided in consistently documenting the deleterious effects ... Full text Cite

Death by a thousand cuts: The health implications of black respectability politics

Journal Article Souls · October 1, 2016 The authors introduce the concept of “vigilance,” capturing behaviors that reflect attempts to navigate racialized social spaces on a daily basis. Specifically, vigilant behaviors include care about appearance and language to be treated with respect, avoid ... Full text Cite

The Association Between Adolescent Obesity and Disability Incidence in Young Adulthood.

Journal Article The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · October 2016 PurposeTo evaluate the longitudinal relationship between obesity during adolescence and development of disability during young adulthood.MethodsA cohort of 8,032 individuals aged 11-21 years enrolled in 1994-1995 (Wave I) of the National ... Full text Cite

Living under surveillance: Gender, psychological distress, and stop-question-and-frisk policing in New York City.

Journal Article Social science & medicine (1982) · June 2016 A growing body of research highlights the collateral consequences of mass incarceration, including stop-and-frisk policing tactics. Living in a neighborhood with aggressive policing may affect one's mental health, especially for men who are the primary tar ... Full text Cite

#Proana: Pro-Eating Disorder Socialization on Twitter.

Conference The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · June 2016 PurposePro-eating disorder (ED) online movements support engagement with ED lifestyles and are associated with negative health consequences for adolescents with EDs. Twitter is a popular social media site among adolescents that provides a unique s ... Full text Cite

Tough on Crime, Tough on Families? Criminal Justice and Family Life in America

Journal Article Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science · May 1, 2016 Full text Cite

Reexamining Race When Studying the Consequences of Criminal Justice Contact for Families

Journal Article Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science · May 1, 2016 Full text Cite

Examining community policing on twitter: Precinct use and community response

Conference Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) · January 1, 2016 A number of high-profile incidents have highlighted tensions between citizens and police, bringing issues of police-citizen trust and community policing to the forefront of the public’s attention. Efforts to mediate this tension emphasize the importance of ... Full text Cite

RACIAL INEQUALITIES IN CONNECTEDNESS TO IMPRISONED INDIVIDUALS IN THE United States

Journal Article Du Bois Review · May 20, 2015 In just the last forty years, imprisonment has been transformed from an event experienced by only the most marginalized to a common stage in the life course of American men - especially Black men with low levels of educational attainment. Although much res ... Full text Cite

Coming unmoored: disproportionate increases in obesity prevalence among young, disadvantaged white women.

Journal Article Obesity (Silver Spring) · January 2015 OBJECTIVES: Since the 1980s, older, low-educated White women experienced an unprecedented decrease in life expectancy. We investigated whether a similar phenomenon was evident among younger women for obesity. METHODS: Using the National Health and Nutritio ... Full text Link to item Cite

Online Pro-Eating Disorder (Pro-ED) Activity.

Journal Article Adolescent medicine: state of the art reviews · December 2014 Cite

Incarceration, maternal hardship, and perinatal health behaviors.

Journal Article Maternal and child health journal · November 2014 Parental incarceration is associated with mental and physical health problems in children, yet little research directly tests mechanisms through which parental incarceration could imperil child health. We hypothesized that the incarceration of a woman or h ... Full text Cite

The prevalence of confirmed maltreatment among US children, 2004 to 2011.

Journal Article JAMA pediatrics · August 2014 ImportanceChild maltreatment is a risk factor for poor health throughout the life course. Existing estimates of the proportion of the US population maltreated during childhood are based on retrospective self-reports. Records of officially confirme ... Full text Cite

Longitudinal associations between poverty and obesity from birth through adolescence.

Journal Article American journal of public health · May 2014 ObjectivesWe examined the relationship between timing of poverty and risk of first-incidence obesity from ages 3 to 15.5 years.MethodsWe used the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth ... Full text Cite

A heavy burden: the cardiovascular health consequences of having a family member incarcerated.

Journal Article American journal of public health · March 2014 ObjectivesWe examined the association of family member incarceration with cardiovascular risk factors and disease by gender.MethodsWe used a sample of 5470 adults aged 18 years and older in the National Survey of American Life, a 2001-200 ... Full text Cite

Parental incarceration and child mortality in Denmark.

Journal Article American journal of public health · March 2014 ObjectivesWe used Danish registry data to examine the association between parental incarceration and child mortality risk.MethodsWe used a sample of all Danish children born in 1991 linked with parental information. We conducted discrete- ... Full text Cite

The Role of Parenting in Linking Family Socioeconomic Disadvantage to Physical Activity in Adolescence and Young Adulthood

Journal Article Youth and Society · March 1, 2014 Parents play an important role in influencing adolescent health behaviors and parenting practices may be an important pathway through which social disadvantage influences adolescent health behaviors that can persist into adulthood. This analysis uses the N ... Full text Cite

Genetic bio-ancestry and social construction of racial classification in social surveys in the contemporary United States.

Journal Article Demography · February 2014 Self-reported race is generally considered the basis for racial classification in social surveys, including the U.S. census. Drawing on recent advances in human molecular genetics and social science perspectives of socially constructed race, our study take ... Full text Cite

A comparison of skin tone discrimination among african american men: 1995 and 2003

Journal Article Psychology of Men and Masculinity · January 1, 2014 This study investigated perceptions of skin tone discrimination among adult African American men. Research has suggested that through negative African American stereotypes, out-group members (Whites) perceive light-skinned African Americans favorably and d ... Full text Cite

Racial/ethnic disparities in hypertension prevalence: reconsidering the role of chronic stress.

Journal Article American journal of public health · January 2014 ObjectivesWe investigated the association between anticipatory stress, also known as racism-related vigilance, and hypertension prevalence in Black, Hispanic, and White adults.MethodsWe used data from the Chicago Community Adult Health St ... Full text Cite

Consequences of Family Member Incarceration: Impacts on Civic Participation and Perceptions of the Legitimacy and Fairness of Government

Journal Article Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science · January 1, 2014 Political participation and citizens' perceptions of the legitimacy and fairness of government are central components of democracy. In this article, we examine one possible threat to these markers of a just political system: family member incarceration. We ... Full text Cite

Interpersonal discrimination and depressive symptomatology: examination of several personality-related characteristics as potential confounders in a racial/ethnic heterogeneous adult sample.

Journal Article BMC public health · November 2013 BackgroundResearch suggests that reports of interpersonal discrimination result in poor mental health. Because personality characteristics may either confound or mediate the link between these reports and mental health, there is a need to disentan ... Full text Cite

A new vulnerable population? The health of female partners of men recently released from prison.

Journal Article Women's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health · November 2013 BackgroundDespite a growing literature on the consequences of having a romantic partner incarcerated on women's risk of contracting sexually transmitted infections, little research considers the broader health profile of the female partners of eve ... Full text Cite

Discrimination and psychological distress among recently released male prisoners.

Journal Article American journal of men's health · November 2013 Though theoretical perspectives suggest experiences of stigma and discrimination after release may be one pathway through which incarceration leads to poor mental health, little research considers the relationship between discrimination and mental health a ... Full text Cite

The social determinants of child health.

Journal Article Social science & medicine (1982) · October 2013 Full text Cite

Child health in the United States: recent trends in racial/ethnic disparities.

Journal Article Social science & medicine (1982) · October 2013 In the United States, race and ethnicity are considered key social determinants of health because of their enduring association with social and economic opportunities and resources. An important policy and research concern is whether the U.S. is making pro ... Full text Cite

College expectations in high school mitigate weight gain over early adulthood: Findings from a national study of American youth

Journal Article Obesity · July 1, 2013 Objective Research conducted on school-based interventions suggests that school connectedness protects against a variety of risk behaviors, including substance abuse, delinquency and sedentary behavior. The line of research is extended by examining the lin ... Full text Cite

"Every Shut Eye, Ain't Sleep": The Role of Racism-Related Vigilance in Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Sleep Difficulty

Journal Article Race and Social Problems · June 1, 2013 Although racial/ethnic disparities in health have been well characterized in biomedical, public health, and social science research, the determinants of these disparities are still not well understood. Chronic psychosocial stress related specifically to th ... Full text Cite

Cardiovascular disease among Black Americans: comparisons between the U.S. Virgin Islands and the 50 U.S. states.

Journal Article Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974) · May 2013 ObjectivesConsistent findings show that black Americans have high rates of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and related behavioral risk factors. Despite this body of work, studies on black Americans are generally limited to the 50 U.S. states. We exam ... Full text Cite

Cumulative social risk and racial/ethnic disparities in obesity during the transition to adulthood

Journal Article Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved · May 1, 2013 Racial/ethnic disparities in adolescent obesity in the U.S. are stark, and the causes of these disparities are largely unknown. We used a cumulative risk index (CRI) to examine the role of social risk in racial/ethnic disparities in obesity. Using the Nati ... Full text Cite

Racial and ethnic differences in the association between obesity and depression in women.

Journal Article Journal of women's health (2002) · May 2013 BackgroundIt is generally accepted that obesity and depression are positively related in women. Very little prior research, however, has examined potential variation in this relationship across different racial/ethnic groups. This paper examines t ... Full text Cite

Is ignorance bliss? Depression, antidepressants, and the diagnosis of prediabetes and type 2 diabetes.

Journal Article Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · March 2013 ObjectiveTo examine the association between clinically identified and undiagnosed prediabetes and Type 2 diabetes with depression and antidepressant medication use.MethodsData come from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Study ... Full text Cite

Multiple levels of social disadvantage and links to obesity in adolescence and young adulthood.

Journal Article The Journal of school health · March 2013 BackgroundThe rise in adolescent obesity has become a public health concern, especially because of its impact on disadvantaged youth. This article examines the role of disadvantage at the family-, peer-, school-, and neighborhood-level, to determi ... Full text Cite

Things Fall Apart: Health Consequences of Mass Imprisonment for African American Women

Journal Article Review of Black Political Economy · January 1, 2013 In this article, we examine the possible impact of mass imprisonment on the physical health of African American women. Specifically, we focus on a variety of mechanisms through which mass imprisonment may increase the risk of having three major chronic hea ... Full text Cite

“White Box” Epidemiology and the Social Neuroscience of Health Behaviors: The Environmental Affordances Model

Journal Article Society and Mental Health · January 1, 2013 Crucial advances have been made in our knowledge of the social determinants of health and health behaviors. Existing research on health disparities, however, generally fails to address a known paradox in the literature: While blacks have higher risk of med ... Full text Cite

Health care provider recommendation, human papillomavirus vaccination, and race/ethnicity in the US National Immunization Survey.

Journal Article American journal of public health · January 2013 ObjectivesHuman papillomavirus (HPV) is a common sexually transmitted infection in the United States, yet HPV vaccination rates remain relatively low. We examined racial/ethnic differences in the prevalence of health care provider recommendations ... Full text Cite

Investigating the Relationship between Perceived Discrimination, Social Status, and Mental Health

Journal Article Society and Mental Health · January 1, 2012 A growing body of evidence suggests that experiences with discrimination have implications for mental health and that these associations may vary by social status. We use data from the Chicago Community Adult Health Study (CCAHS) to examine how two types o ... Full text Cite

Trends in body mass index in adolescence and young adulthood in the United States: 1959-2002.

Journal Article The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · December 2011 PurposeThis study examined trends in body mass index (BMI) during the transition from adolescence to young adulthood by gender and race, using national data from the United States spanning for >40 years from 1959 and 2002. Although past research h ... Full text Cite

Obesity reduction within a generation: the dual roles of prevention and treatment.

Journal Article Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · October 2011 In 2010, the White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity provided benchmark goals for reducing childhood obesity. We evaluated the balance of prevention and treatment required for achieving Task Force goals in benchmark years 2015, 2020, and 2030. We creat ... Full text Cite

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Journal Article American Journal of Epidemiology · June 1, 2011 Full text Cite

Inequality as an explanation for obesity in the United States

Journal Article Sociology Compass · March 1, 2011 Over the past several decades, there has been a sharp increase in obesity across all population groups in the United States. In fact, the United States has one of the highest rates of obesity compared to other countries throughout the world. Obesity has be ... Full text Cite

Reconsidering the role of social disadvantage in physical and mental health: stressful life events, health behaviors, race, and depression.

Journal Article American journal of epidemiology · December 2010 Prevalence of depression is associated inversely with some indicators of socioeconomic position, and the stress of social disadvantage is hypothesized to mediate this relation. Relative to whites, blacks have a higher burden of most physical health conditi ... Full text Cite

Marriage and health in the transition to adulthood: Evidence for African Americans in the add health study

Journal Article Journal of Family Issues · July 8, 2010 This article explores the relationships among early marriage (before age 26 years), cohabitation, and health for African Americans and Whites during the transition to adulthood using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). The st ... Full text Cite

Life Course Perspectives on the Links between Poverty and Obesity during the Transition to Young Adulthood

Journal Article Population Research and Policy Review · August 1, 2009 Increasing obesity among Americans is a serious issue in the US, especially in the pediatric and young adult population. We use a longitudinal design to examine the relationship between childhood poverty/welfare receipt and obesity onset and continuity fro ... Full text Cite

DNA Collection in a randomized social science study of college peer effects

Journal Article Sociological Methodology · August 1, 2009 We describe the DNA collection processes of an initial pilot and full study, which is designed to investigate joint peer and genetic effects on health behaviors and attitudes in a college campus setting. In the main study, 2664 (79.5%) students completed a ... Full text Cite

The undertheorized environment: Sociological theory and the ontology of behavioral genetics

Journal Article Sociological Perspectives · June 1, 2007 Growing interest in the genetic contribution to human behaviors has led to the growth of the field of behavioral genetics. The authors consider the concept of "environment" in behavioral genetics and argue that sociology is in a unique position to evaluate ... Full text Cite

The effects of school racial and ethnic composition on academic achievement during adolescence

Journal Article Journal of Negro Education · March 1, 2007 This research examines the effects of school racial and ethnic composition on students' academic achievement in the U.S. using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and hierarchical linear models. This analysis includes Hispanics, which stan ... Cite