Browsing by Author "Chen, Jarvis"
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50-year trends in US socioeconomic inequalities in health: US-born Black and White Americans, 1959–2008
Krieger, Nancy; Kosheleva, Anna; Waterman, Pamela; Chen, Jarvis; Beckfield, Jason; Kiang, Mathew V (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2014-03-16)Background: Debates exist over whether health inequities are bound to rise as population health improves, due to health improving more quickly among the better off, with most analyses focused on mortality data. Methods: ... -
The Association Between Alcohol Access and Alcohol‐attributable Emergency Department Visits in Ontario, Canada
Myran, Daniel; Chen, Jarvis; Giesbrecht, Norman; Rees, Vaughan (Wiley, 2019-04-17)Background and aims: The availability of alcohol through retail outlets is associated with alcohol‐related harms, but few studies have demonstrated a causal relationship. We investigated the association between alcohol ... -
COVID-19: US federal accountability for entry, spread, and inequities—lessons for the future
Hanage, William; Testa, Christian; Chen, Jarvis; Davis, Letitia; Pechter, Elise; Seminario, Peg; Santillana, Mauricio; Krieger, Nancy (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-11)The United States (US) has been among those nations most severely affected by the first—and subsequent—phases of the pandemic of COVID-19, the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2. With only 4% of the worldwide population, the US ... -
Different Slopes for Different Folks: Socioeconomic and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Asthma and Hay Fever among 173,859 U.S. Men and Women.
Chen, Jarvis T.; Krieger, Nancy; Van Den Eeden, Stephen K; Quesenberry, Charles P (The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), 2002)Although allergic diseases such as asthma and hay fever are a major cause of morbidity in industrialized countries, most studies have focused on patterns of prevalence among children and adolescents, with relatively few ... -
Exposing Racial Discrimination: Implicit & Explicit Measures–The My Body, My Story Study of 1005 US-Born Black & White Community Health Center Members
Krieger, Nancy; Waterman, Pamela; Kosheleva, Anna; Chen, Jarvis; Carney, Dana; Smith, Kevin; Bennett, Gary; Williams, David R.; Freeman, Elmer; Russell, Beverley; Thornhill, Gisele; Mikolowsky, Kristin; Rifkin, Rachel; Samuel, Latrice; Russell, Beverley; Williams, David (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2011-11-18)Background: To date, research on racial discrimination and health typically has employed explicit self-report measures, despite their potentially being affected by what people are able and willing to say. We accordingly ... -
The Fall and Rise of US Inequities in Premature Mortality: 1960–2002
Krieger, Nancy; Rehkopf, David H; Chen, Jarvis; Waterman, Pamela; Marcelli, Enrico; Kennedy, Malinda (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2008-02-26)Background Debates exist as to whether, as overall population health improves, the absolute and relative magnitude of income- and race/ethnicity-related health disparities necessarily increase—or derease. We accordingly ... -
Lifetime Socioeconomic Position and Twins' Health: An Analysis of 308 Pairs of United States Women Twins
Selby, Joe V; Peltonen, Leena; Krieger, Nancy; Chen, Jarvis T.; Coull, Brent Andrew (Public Library of Science, 2005)Background: Important controversies exist about the extent to which people's health status as adults is shaped by their living conditions in early life compared to adulthood. These debates have important policy implications, ... -
Melanoma Disparities among US Hispanics: Use of the Social Ecological Model to Contextualize Reasons for Inequitable Outcomes and Frame a Research Agenda
Harvey, Valerie M.; Oldfield, Charlene W.; Chen, Jarvis T.; Eschbach, Karl (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2016)Cutaneous melanoma is a significant public health concern, accounting for thousands of deaths annually in the US. Early detection and diagnosis are critical given the poor prognosis and limited treatment options of ... -
Police Killings and Police Deaths Are Public Health Data and Can Be Counted
Krieger, Nancy; Chen, Jarvis T.; Waterman, Pamela D.; Kiang, Mathew V.; Feldman, Justin (Public Library of Science, 2015)Nancy Krieger and colleagues argue that law-enforcement–related deaths in the United States should be treated as notifiable conditions, which would allow public health departments to report these data in real-time. -
Race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and ALS mortality in the United States
Roberts, Andrea L.; Johnson, Norman J.; Chen, Jarvis T.; Cudkowicz, Merit E.; Weisskopf, Marc G. (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2016)Objective: To determine whether race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status are associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) mortality in the United States. Methods: The National Longitudinal Mortality Study (NLMS), a ... -
Racial Discrimination & Cardiovascular Disease Risk: My Body My Story Study of 1005 US-Born Black and White Community Health Center Participants (US)
Krieger, Nancy; Waterman, Pamela D.; Kosheleva, Anna; Chen, Jarvis T.; Smith, Kevin W.; Carney, Dana R.; Bennett, Gary G.; Williams, David R.; Thornhill, Gisele; Freeman, Elmer R. (Public Library of Science, 2013)Objectives: To date, limited and inconsistent evidence exists regarding racial discrimination and risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Methods: Cross-sectional observational study of 1005 US-born non-Hispanic black (n = ... -
Temporal Trends in the Black/White Breast Cancer Case Ratio for Estrogen Receptor Status: Disparities Are Historically Contingent, Not Innate
Krieger, Nancy; Chen, Jarvis; Waterman, Pamela (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2010-12-25)Objective: For at least three decades, many investigators have reported on the US black/white breast cancer case ratio for estrogen receptor (ER) status as if it reflected an intrinsic biological difference. In light of ... -
U.S. county-level characteristics to inform equitable COVID-19 response
Chin, Taylor; Kahn, Rebecca; Li, Ruoran; Chen, Jarvis; Krieger, Nancy; Buckee, Caroline; Balsari, Satchit; Kiang, Mathew (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2020-04-11)Background: The spread of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) across the United States confirms that not all Americans are equally at risk of infection, severe disease, or mortality. A range of intersecting biological, ... -
The Unique Impact of Abolition of Jim Crow Laws on Reducing Inequities in Infant Death Rates and Implications for Choice of Comparison Groups in Analyzing Societal Determinants of Health
Krieger, Nancy; Coull, Brent; Beckfield, Jason; Chen, Jarvis; Waterman, Pamela (American Public Health Association, 2013-12)Objectives. We explored associations between the abolition of Jim Crow laws (i.e., state laws legalizing racial discrimination overturned by the 1964 US Civil Rights Act) and birth cohort trends in infant death rates.Methods. ... -
Visualizing the lagged connection between COVID-19 cases and deaths in the United States: An animation using per capita state-level data (January 22, 2020 – July 8, 2020)
Testa, Christian; Krieger, Nancy; Chen, Jarvis; Hanage, William (The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, 2020-07-10)