Search Results - "FINCH, Brian K"

Neighborhood socioeconomic status and fruit and vegetable intake among whites, blacks, and Mexican Americans in the United States by Dubowitz, Tamara, Heron, Melonie, Bird, Chloe E, Lurie, Nicole, Finch, Brian K, Basurto-Dávila, Ricardo, Hale, Lauren, Escarce, José J

“…BACKGROUND: Socioeconomic and racial-ethnic disparities in health status across the United States are large and persistent. Obesity rates are rising faster in…”
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Trends in US Older Adult Disability: Exploring Age, Period, and Cohort Effects by LIN, Shih-Fan, BECK, Audrey N, FINCH, Brian K, HUMMER, Robert A, MASTER, Ryan K

“…We elucidated how US late-life disability prevalence has changed over the past 3 decades. We examined activities of daily living (ADL) and instrumental…”
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Collective efficacy and obesity: The potential influence of social factors on health by Cohen, Deborah A., Finch, Brian K., Bower, Aimee, Sastry, Narayan

“…Social determinants have been identified as a fundamental cause of health and disease in most industrialized countries. However, much less is known about which…”
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Non-residential neighborhood exposures suppress neighborhood effects on self-rated health by Inagami, Sanae, Cohen, Deborah A., Finch, Brian K.

“…In prior research, neighborhood effects have often been weak or inconsistent in predicting specific causes of mortality and morbidity. To determine whether…”
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Racial disparities in self-rated health: Trends, explanatory factors, and the changing role of socio-demographics by Beck, Audrey N., Finch, Brian K., Lin, Shih-Fan, Hummer, Robert A., Masters, Ryan K.

“…This paper uses data from the U.S. National Health Interview Surveys (N = 1,513,097) to describe and explain temporal patterns in black-white health…”
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The Dynamic contribution of chronic conditions to temporal trends in disability among U.S. adults by Lin, Shih-Fan, DrPH, Beck, Audrey N., Ph.D, Finch, Brian K., Ph.D

“…Abstract Background Although evidence has shown that U.S. late-life disability has been declining, studies have also suggested that there has been an increase…”
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Structural stigma and all-cause mortality in sexual minority populations by Hatzenbuehler, Mark L, Bellatorre, Anna, Lee, Yeonjin, Finch, Brian K, Muennig, Peter, Fiscella, Kevin

“…Stigma operates at multiple levels, including intrapersonal appraisals (e.g., self-stigma), interpersonal events (e.g., hate crimes), and structural conditions…”
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Determining Gentrification's Relationship to Birth Outcomes in Metropolitan California by Beck, Audrey N., Thomas, Kyla, Finch, Brian K., Gibbons, Joseph

“…There is inconsistent evidence whether gentrification, the increase of affluent residents moving into low-income neighborhoods, is detrimental to health. To…”
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Neighborhood Protective Effects on Depression in Latinos by Vega, William A., Ang, Alfonso, Rodriguez, Michael A., Finch, Brian K.

“…Neighborhood social ecologies may have protective effects on depression in Latinos, after adjusting for demographic risk factors, such as nativity and length…”
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Neighbourhood socioeconomic status and biological ‘wear and tear’ in a nationally representative sample of US adults by Bird, Chloe E, Seeman, Teresa, Escarce, José J, Basurto-Dávila, Ricardo, Finch, Brian K, Dubowitz, Tamara, Heron, Melonie, Hale, Lauren, Merkin, Sharon Stein, Weden, Margaret, Lurie, Nicole

“…ObjectiveTo assess whether neighbourhood socioeconomic status (NSES) is independently associated with disparities in biological ‘wear and tear’ measured by…”
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Attained SES as a Moderator of Adult Cognitive Performance: Testing Gene-Environment Interaction in Various Cognitive Domains by Zavala, Catalina, Beam, Christopher R., Finch, Brian K., Gatz, Margaret, Johnson, Wendy, Kremen, William S., Neiderhiser, Jenae M., Pedersen, Nancy L., Reynolds, Chandra A.

“…We examined whether attained socioeconomic status (SES) moderated genetic and environmental sources of individual differences in cognitive performance using…”
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Educational Attainment and Perceived Need for Urgent Care by Finch, Brian K., Haas, Ann, Haviland, Amelia M., Dembosky, Jacob W., Gaillot, Sarah, Elliott, Marc N.

“…While lower educational attainment is associated with worse health status, education may also affect one’s ability to identify need for urgent care. Using data…”
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Black―White Disparity in Disability Among U.S. Older Adults: Age, Period, and Cohort Trends by LIN, Shih-Fan, BECK, Audrey N, FINCH, Brian K

“…This study delineates activities of daily living (ADL) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) black-white disparity trends by age, period, and…”
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IGEMS: The Consortium on Interplay of Genes and Environment Across Multiple Studies - An Update by Pedersen, Nancy L, Gatz, Margaret, Finch, Brian K, Finkel, Deborah, Butler, David A, Dahl Aslan, Anna, Franz, Carol E, Kaprio, Jaakko, Lapham, Susan, McGue, Matt, Mosing, Miriam A, Neiderhiser, Jenae, Nygaard, Marianne, Panizzon, Matthew, Prescott, Carol A, Reynolds, Chandra A, Sachdev, Perminder, Whitfield, Keith E

“…The Interplay of Genes and Environment across Multiple Studies (IGEMS) is a consortium of 18 twin studies from 5 different countries (Sweden, Denmark, Finland,…”
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Neighborhood effects on health: Concentrated advantage and disadvantage by Finch, Brian K., Phuong Do, D., Heron, Melonie, Bird, Chloe, Seeman, Teresa, Lurie, Nicole

“…We investigate an alternative conceptualization of neighborhood context and its association with health. Using an index that measures a continuum of…”
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Acculturation, Mental Health, and Wellbeing Among Hispanic/Latinx Young Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer by Tobin, Jessica, Cockburn, Myles, Unger, Jennifer B, Finch, Brian K, Hamilton, Ann S, Ritt-Olson, Anamara, Milam, Joel E

“…Ethnic disparities in childhood cancer survivor (CCS) mental health have been identified, although prior survivorship research has focused predominantly on…”
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Financial strain moderates genetic influences on self-rated health: support for diathesis-stress model of gene-environment interplay by Finkel, Deborah, Zavala, Catalina, Franz, Carol E., Pahlen, Shandell, Gatz, Margaret, Pedersen, Nancy L., Finch, Brian K., Dahl Aslan, Anna, Catts, Vibeke S., Ericsson, Malin, Krueger, Robert F., Martin, Nicholas G., Mohan, Adith, Mosing, Miriam A., Prescott, Carol A., Whitfield, Keith E.

“…Data from the Interplay of Genes and Environment across Multiple Studies (IGEMS) consortium were used to examine predictions of different models of…”
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Neighborhood context and ethnicity differences in body mass index: A multilevel analysis using the NHANES III survey (1988–1994) by Do, D. Phuong, Dubowitz, Tamara, Bird, Chloe E., Lurie, Nicole, Escarce, José J., Finch, Brian K.

“…A growing body of literature has documented a link between neighborhood context and health outcomes. However, little is known about the relationship between…”
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Religious involvement and depressive symptoms among Mexican-origin adults in California by Ellison, Christopher G., Finch, Brian K., Ryan, Daniell Nicole, Salinas, Jennifer J.

“…A burgeoning literature has documented generally salutary relationships between various aspects of religious involvement and mental health outcomes, including…”
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Contextual Predictors of Cumulative Biological Risk: Segregation and Allostatic Load by Bellatorre, Anna, Finch, Brian K., Phuong Do, D., Bird, Chloe E., Beck, Audrey N.

“…Objectives. Segregation is considered to be a fundamental cause of race/ethnic disparities in health. However, very few studies have tested whether levels of…”
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