Search Results - "Hummer, Robert A."

Trends and group differences in the association between educational attainment and U.S. adult mortality: Implications for understanding education's causal influence by Hayward, Mark D., Hummer, Robert A., Sasson, Isaac

“…Has the shape of the association between educational attainment and U.S. adult mortality changed in recent decades? If so, is it changing consistently across…”
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Education and the Gender Gaps in Health and Mortality by Ross, Catherine E., Masters, Ryan K., Hummer, Robert A.

“…The positive associations between education and health and survival are well established, but whether the strength of these associations depends on gender is…”
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Mortality Attributable to Low Levels of Education in the United States by Krueger, Patrick M, Tran, Melanie K, Hummer, Robert A, Chang, Virginia W

“…Educational disparities in U.S. adult mortality are large and have widened across birth cohorts. We consider three policy relevant scenarios and estimate the…”
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Educational and Gender Differences in Health Behavior Changes After a Gateway Diagnosis by Hernandez, Elaine M., Margolis, Rachel, Hummer, Robert A.

“…Objective: Hypertension represents a gateway diagnosis to more serious health problems that occur as people age. We examine educational differences in three…”
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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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Social status differences in allostatic load among young adults in the United States by Richardson, Liana J., Goodwin, Andrea N., Hummer, Robert A.

“…Allostatic load refers to wear and tear on the body due to repeated activation of the stress response and, thus, may be an early subclinical indicator of…”
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Trends in the Educational Gradient of U.S. Adult Mortality From 1986 Through 2006 by Race, Gender, and Age Group by Montez, Jennifer Karas, Hummer, Robert A., Hayward, Mark D., Woo, Hyeyoung, Rogers, Richard G.

“…The educational gradient of U.S. adult mortality became steeper between 1960 and the mid-1980s, but whether it continued to steepen is less clear given a…”
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Are Educational Differences in U.S. Self-Rated Health Increasing?: An Examination by Gender and Race by Liu, Hui, Hummer, Robert A.

“…Recent literature has documented changes in educational differences in health over recent time periods, across the life course, and by gender and race. We…”
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Long-Term Trends in Adult Mortality for U.S. Blacks and Whites: An Examination of Period- and Cohort-Based Changes by Masters, Ryan K., Hummer, Robert A., Powers, Daniel A., Beck, Audrey, Lin, Shih-Fan, Finch, Brian Karl

“…Black-white differences in U.S. adult mortality have narrowed over the past five decades, but whether this narrowing unfolded on a period or cohort basis is…”
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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 Importance of Spousal Education for the Self-Rated Health of Married Adults in the United States by Brown, Dustin C., Hummer, Robert A., Hayward, Mark D.

“…Education's benefits for individuals' health are well documented, but it is unclear whether health benefits also accrue from the education of others in…”
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Greater mortality variability in the United States in comparison with peer countries by Rogers, Richard G., Hummer, Robert A., Vinneau, Justin M., Lawrence, Elizabeth M.

“…Over the past several decades, US mortality declines have lagged behind other high-income countries. However, scant attention has been devoted to how US…”
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Self-reported health and adult mortality risk: An analysis of cause-specific mortality by Benjamins, Maureen Reindl, Hummer, Robert A, Eberstein, Isaac W, Nam, Charles B

“…The relationship between self-reported health and mortality is well documented, but less well understood. This study uses the National Health Interview Survey…”
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Race and Ethnicity, Racism, and Population Health in the United States: The Straightforward, the Complex, Innovations, and the Future by Hummer, Robert A.

“…For far too long, U.S. racialized groups have experienced human suffering and loss of life far too often and early. Thus, it is critical that the population…”
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Social Inequality and the Future of US Life Expectancy by Gutin, Iliya, Hummer, Robert A

“…Despite decades of progress, the future of life expectancy in the United States is uncertain due to widening socioeconomic disparities in mortality, continued…”
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The persistent southern disadvantage in US early life mortality, 1965–2014 by Dollar, Nathan T., Gutin, Iliya, Lawrence, Elizabeth M., Braudt, David B., Fishman, Samuel H., Rogers, Richard G., Hummer, Robert A.

“…Recent studies of US adult mortality demonstrate a growing disadvantage among southern states. Few studies have examined long-term trends and geographic…”
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Which Aspects of Education Matter for Early Adult Mortality? Evidence from the High School and Beyond Cohort by Warren, John Robert, Muller, Chandra, Hummer, Robert A., Grodsky, Eric, Humphries, Melissa

“…What dimensions of education matter for people’s chances of surviving young adulthood? Do cognitive skills, noncognitive skills, course-taking patterns, and…”
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Longer—but Harder—Lives?: The Hispanic Health Paradox and the Social Determinants of Racial, Ethnic, and Immigrant–Native Health Disparities from Midlife through Late Life by Boen, Courtney E., Hummer, Robert A.

“…Though Hispanics live long lives, whether a “Hispanic paradox “extends to older-age health remains unclear, as do the social processes underlying racial-ethnic…”
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Is educational attainment associated with young adult cardiometabolic health? by Noppert, Grace A., Gaydosh, Lauren, Harris, Kathleen Mullan, Goodwin, Andrea, Hummer, Robert A.

“…Educational disparities in health and mortality are well-documented and evidence suggests that they may be widening. Yet, there is much unknown about when…”
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Would the elimination of obesity and smoking reduce U.S. racial/ethnic/nativity disparities in total and healthy life expectancy? by Frisco, Michelle L, Van Hook, Jennifer, Hummer, Robert A

“…Obesity and smoking are the two leading causes of preventable death and disability in the United States. Both of these health risks are socially patterned in…”
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