A James
Biographic Data
| ID | 2880 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A James |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | James |
| SIGNATURE | JAMES A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6287-8247 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 83 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 978 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 83 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 18 |
Discrimination, chronic stress, and cardiovascular health among African American men and women in the Jackson Heart Study
Beyond growth mindset
Socioeconomic Correlates of Obesity in African-American and Caribbean-Black Men and Women
John Henryism, Structural Racism, and Cardiovascular Health Risks in Black Americans
Education, perceived discrimination and risk for depression in a southern black cohort
Objectives: Assess whether education moderates associations between discrimination and depression risk within a southern Black/African American cohort in a labor market shifting from manufacturing and farming to education-intensive industries, such as health care and technology. Methods: Data are from the Pitt County (NC) Study ( n = 1154) collected in 2001. Depression risk was assessed with the Center for Epidemiologic Study-Depression (CES-D) s…
John Henryism and Perceived Health among Hemodialysis Patients in a Multiracial Brazilian Population
The results indicate that MHD patients engaged in high-effort coping with socioenvironmental stressors as demonstrated by high JH tend to feel more positively about their overall health. This seems to be especially the case for non-White and younger patients
At the intersection of place, race, and health in Brazil
John Henryism, Gender and Self-reported Health Among Roma/Gypsies in Serbia
The legacy of slavery and contemporary declines in heart disease mortality in the U.S. South
Nearly 50 years of declining heart disease mortality is a major public health success, but one marked by uneven progress by place and race. At the county level, progress in heart disease mortality reduction among Blacks is associated with place-based historical legacy of slavery. Effective and equitable public health prevention efforts should consider the historical context of place and the social and economic institutions that may play a role in…
Anticipated Negative Police-Youth Encounters and Depressive Symptoms among Pregnant African American Women
The strangest of all encounters
In 2003, a Committee of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences summarized hundreds of studies documenting that US racial minorities, especially African Americans, receive poorer quality health care for a wide variety of conditions than their White counterparts. These racial differences in health care persist after controlling for sociodemographic factors and patients' ability to pay for care. The Committee concluded that ph…
Socioeconomic position, John Henryism, and incidence of acute myocardial infarction in Finnish men
Jedi public health
The extent to which socially-assigned and culturally mediated social identity affects health depends on contingencies of social identity that vary across and within populations in day-to-day life. These contingencies are structurally rooted and health damaging inasmuch as they activate physiological stress responses. They also have adverse effects on cognition and emotion, undermining self-confidence and diminishing academic performance. This imp…
Social inequalities in BMI trajectories
Objective In a cohort of government employees in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, we investigated prospectively, sex-specific associations between education and BMI trajectories and their potential effect modification by race. Design Of the 4030 participants in Phase 1 (1999), 3253 (81 %) participated in Phase 2 (2003) and 3058 (76 %) participated in Phase 3 (2006). Education was categorized as elementary, high school or college graduate. Study participan…
John Henryism Active Coping, Acculturation, and Psychological Health in Korean Immigrants
This study aimed to explore the levels of John Henryism (JH) active coping and its association with acculturation status and psychological health (specifically perceived stress, acculturative stress, anxiety, and depression) in Korean immigrants to the United States. In 102 Korean immigrants, JH active coping was measured by the JH Scale; acculturation by the Bidimensional Acculturation Scale; perceived stress by the Perceived Stress Scale; accul…
An Increasing Socioeconomic Gap in Childhood Overweight and Obesity in China
We used a new conceptual framework that integrates tenets from health economics, social epidemiology, and health behavior to analyze the impact of socioeconomic forces on the temporal changes in the socioeconomic status (SES) gap in childhood overweight and obesity in China. In data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey for 1991 to 2006, we found increased prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity across all SES groups, but a greater in…
Work-life 'balance' and gendered (im)mobilities of knowledge and learning in high-tech regional economies
Over the past three decades, economic geographers have explored how the spatial co-location of firms in regional industrial agglomerations helps foster learning, innovation and economic competitiveness. While recent work highlights the crucial role of labour mobility in promoting inter-firm ‘knowledge spillovers’, it pays little attention to how gendered responsibilities of care and personal-life interests beyond the workplace shape workers’ (non…
Socioeconomic status, John Henryism and blood pressure among African-Americans in the Jackson Heart Study
Maternal age, birth order, and race
BACKGROUND: Studies examining the influence of maternal age and birth order on birthweight have not effectively disentangled the relative contributions of each factor to birthweight, especially as they may differ by race. METHODS: A population-based, cross-sectional study of North Carolina births from 1999 to 2003 was performed. Analysis was restricted to 510 288 singleton births from 28 to 42 weeks' gestation with no congenital anomalies. Multiv…
Perceived Discrimination and Hypertension Among African Americans in the Jackson Heart Study
Further understanding the role of perceived discrimination in the etiology of hypertension may be beneficial in eliminating hypertension disparities
Discrimination and psychological distress
Socioeconomic Status Moderates the Association Between John Henryism and NEO PI-R Personality Domains
OBJECTIVE: To investigate associations between John Henryism (JH) and NEO Personality Inventory-Revised (PI-R) personality domains. JH-a strong behavioral predisposition to engage in high-effort coping with difficult psychosocial and economic stressors-has been associated with poor health, particularly among persons in lower socioeconomic (SES) groups. Unfavorable personality profiles have also been frequently linked to poor health; however, no s…
Who, and what, causes health inequities? Reflections on emerging debates from an exploratory Latin American/North American workshop
Objective: To examine the associations between childhood socioeconomic and family circumstances, health and behavioural and cognitive development, and health and mental well-being outcomes in adulthood; exploring whether associations are different for cohorts born in 1958 and 1970, or for men and women. Design: Pooled analysis of two prospective, population-based, British birth cohort studies. Participants: 11 327 men and women born in 1958 and 1…
Life-Course Socioeconomic Position and Incidence of Diabetes Mellitus Among Blacks and Whites
Objectives. We examined associations between several life-course socioeconomic position (SEP) measures (childhood SEP, education, income, occupation) and diabetes incidence from 1965 to 1999 in a sample of 5422 diabetes-free Black and White participants in the Alameda County Study. Methods. Race-specific Cox proportional hazard models estimated diabetes risk associated with each SEP measure. Demographic confounders (age, gender, marital status) a…
Awareness of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and the US Presidential Apology and Their Influence on Minority Participation in Biomedical Research
Objectives. We compared the influence of awareness of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and the presidential apology for that study on the willingness of Blacks, non-Hispanic Whites, and Hispanics to participate in biomedical research. Methods. The Tuskegee Legacy Project Questionnaire was administered to 1133 adults in 4 US cities. This 60-item questionnaire addressed issues related to the recruitment of minorities into biomedical studies. Results. Ad…
Neighborhood Racial Composition, Neighborhood Poverty, and the Spatial Accessibility of Supermarkets in Metropolitan Detroit
Objectives. We evaluated the spatial accessibility of large “chain” supermarkets in relation to neighborhood racial composition and poverty. Methods. We used a geographic information system to measure Manhattan block distance to the nearest supermarket for 869 neighborhoods (census tracts) in metropolitan Detroit. We constructed moving average spatial regression models to adjust for spatial autocorrelation and to test for the effect of modificati…
Social inequalities, stressors and self reported health status among African American and white women in the Detroit metropolitan area
Unfair Treatment, Neighborhood Effects, and Mental Health in the Detroit Metropolitan Area
Why do racial differences in many indicators of mental and emotional well-being show inconsistent patterns? We propose that mental and emotional well-being are influenced by aspects of the social context, including experiences of unfair treatment and the concentration of households with incomes below the poverty level, and that differential exposure to these factors influences racial differences in mental well-being. We analyze the reporting of p…
Predictors of homelessness among families in New York City
OBJECTIVES: This study examined predictors of entry into shelter and subsequent housing stability for a cohort of families receiving public assistance in New York City. METHODS: Interviews were conducted with 266 families as they requested shelter and with a comparison sample of 298 families selected at random from the welfare caseload. Respondents were reinterviewed 5 years later. Families with prior history of shelter use were excluded from the…
Perceived Discrimination and Hypertension Among African Americans in the Jackson Heart Study
Further understanding the role of perceived discrimination in the etiology of hypertension may be beneficial in eliminating hypertension disparities
The family routines inventory
Discrimination and psychological distress
Maternal Upward Socioeconomic Mobility and Black–White Disparities in Infant Birthweight
Objectives. We estimate the extent to which upward socioeconomic mobility limits the probability that Black and White women who spent their childhoods in or near poverty will give birth to a low-birthweight baby. Methods. Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and the 1970 US Census were used to complete a series of logistic regression models. We restricted multivariate analyses to female survey respondents who, at 14 years of a…
Childhood
The socially constructed character of childhood is, by now, recognized as an important factor in shaping children's everyday experiences. It is no longer possible to see childhood simply as a common and universal biological phase in the life course. Although contemporary sociological theorizing about childhood has highlighted this tension, it has, as yet, offered few solutions. In this article, it is proposed that by examining the role of law and…
Social inequality and depressive disorders in Bahia, Brazil
Socioeconomic status, John Henryism and blood pressure among African-Americans in the Jackson Heart Study
Life-Course Socioeconomic Position and Obesity in African American Women
Objectives. We studied obesity in African American women in relationship to their socioeconomic position (SEP) in childhood and adulthood. Methods. On the basis of parents’ occupation, we classified 679 women in the Pitt County (North Carolina) Study into low and high childhood SEP. Women’s education, occupation, employment status, and home ownership were used to classify them into low and high adulthood SEP. Four life-course SEP categories resul…
Tightening the net
The recent move to revitalize social democracy in the UK under the New Labour government, explored by Giddens as 'the Third Way', embraces many of Etzioni's ideas on communitarianism. The principles that emerge from these political philosophies, such as the involvement of local communities in policy consultations and implementation, have largely been welcomed as a reflection of the aim of revitalizing civic society in the context of a range of so…
John Henryism, self-reported physical health indicators, and the mediating role of perceived stress among high socio-economic status Asian immigrants
At the intersection of place, race, and health in Brazil
Alcohol drinking patterns by gender, ethnicity, and social class in Bahia, Brazil
OBJECTIVE: To study patterns of alcohol consumption and prevalence of high-risk drinking. METHODS: A household survey was carried out in a sample of 2,302 adults in Salvador, Brazil. Cases of High-Risk Drinking (HRD) were defined as those subjects who referred daily or weekly binge drinking plus episodes of drunkenness and those who reported any use of alcoholic beverages but with frequent drunkenness (at least once a week). RESULTS: Fifty-six pe…
The family routines inventory
Blood pressure and skin color
Blood pressure and skin color. H A Tyroler, and S A JamesCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.68.12.1170 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Association between maternal education and infant diarrhea in different household and community environments of Cebu, Philippines
Life-Course Socioeconomic Position and Hypertension in African American Men
Objectives. We investigated the odds of hypertension for Black men in relationship to their socioeconomic position (SEP) in both childhood and adulthood. Methods. On the basis of their parents’ occupation, we classified 379 men in the Pitt County (North Carolina) Study into low and high childhood SEP. The men’s own education, occupation, employment status, and home ownership status were used to classify them into low and high adulthood SEP. Four …
Work-related psychosocial stress and risk of preterm, low birthweight delivery
We investigated whether work-related psychologic stress--defined as work characterized by both high psychologic demands and limited control over the response to these demands--increases a woman's risk of delivering a preterm, low birthweight infant. We studied 786 employed pregnant women included in the National Longitudinal Survey of Labor Market Experience, Youth Cohort (NLSY), a nationally representative sample of 12,686 young adults. Data con…
Socioecologic stress and hypertension related mortality rates in North Carolina
Socioecologic stress and hypertension related mortality rates in North Carolina. S A James, and D G KleinbaumCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.66.4.354 Published Online: August 29, 2011
Anticipated Negative Police-Youth Encounters and Depressive Symptoms among Pregnant African American Women
Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (Reach) Detroit Partnership
Objectives. We sought to determine the effects of a community-based, culturally tailored diabetes lifestyle intervention on risk factors for diabetes complications among African Americans and Latinos with type 2 diabetes. Methods. One hundred fifty-one African American and Latino adults with diabetes were recruited from 3 health care systems in Detroit, Michigan, to participate in the Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) Detro…
Socioeconomic and behavioral correlates of body mass index in black adults
BACKGROUND. Obesity is more prevalent among Black women than Black men, but there is little information on the correlates of obesity in Blacks. This study describes the relations of sociodemographic factors and health behaviors to body mass index in a southern, Black population. METHODS. In 1988, a community probability sample of 1784 Black adults, aged 25 to 50, was examined in Pitt County, NC. RESULTS. More women than men were at least 20% over…
Undergraduate community psychology work‐study programs
Socioecologic stress and hypertension related mortality rates in North Carolina
Socioecologic stress and hypertension related mortality rates in North Carolina. S A James, and D G KleinbaumCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.66.4.354 Published Online: August 29, 2011
Soul city
This study examined the differences in the attitudes of black and white students towards Soul City, a new town currently under construction in Warren County, North Carolina. 115 white students and 45 black students attending a predominantly white university and 122 black students attending a predominantly black university responded to a survey instrument developed to measure attitudes towards the new town. Scores on the instrument were factor ana…
The psychologist in a public health setting
This paper summarizes how a traditionally trained clinical psychologist transformed himself, with no small difficulty, into a research-oriented community psychologist and a faculty member of a multidisciplinary department within a school of public health. Further, the author discusses what he calls a two-way relationship between epidemiology and community psychology and proposes a core curriculum for research training in community psychology at t…
Blood pressure and skin color
Blood pressure and skin color. H A Tyroler, and S A JamesCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.68.12.1170 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Dimensions of patient and physician roles in medical screening interviews
Dimensions of patient and physician roles in medical screening interviews
The Oxford Gallery
Journal Article The Oxford Gallery Get access ANNE JAMES ANNE JAMES Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Oxford Art Journal, Volume 2, Issue 2, April 1979, Page 62, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxartj/2.2.62 Published: 01 April 1979
Interaction Exchange Structure and Patient Satisfaction with Medical Interviews
The verbal interaction between patients and physicians in 52 initial interviews in a university hospital screening clinic was studied using a new discourse coding system. Factor analysis of category frequencies showed that each interview segment, medical history, physical examination, and conclusion, consisted mainly of two or three types of verbal exchange. Patient satisfaction with the interviews, assessed with a questionnaire that yields separ…
Isro
The Duke-UNC Health Profile
The Duke--UNC Health Profile (DUHP) was developed as a brief 63-item instrument designed to measure adult health status in the primary care setting along four dimensions: symptom status, physical function, emotional function and social function. Reliability and validity were tested on a group of 395 ambulatory patients in a family medicine center. Temporal stability Spearman correlations ranged from 0.52 to 0.82 for the four dimensions. Cronbach'…
The Epidemiologic Evidence for a Relationship Between Social Support and Health
W. EUGENE BROADHEAD, BERTON H. KAPLAN, SHERMAN A. JAMES, EDWARD H. WAGNER, VICTOR J. SCHOENBACH, ROGER GRIMSON, SIEGFRIED HEYDEN, GŌSTA TIBBLIN, STEPHEN H. GEHL
The family routines inventory
The family routines inventory
John Henryism and blood pressure differences among black men. II. The role of occupational stressors
The Edgecombe County (NC) High Blood Pressure Control Program
As the initial step in a five-year project to improve control of high blood pressure in Edgecombe County, North Carolina, a survey was conducted in 1980 to determine the prevalence of hypertension and to identify factors which might constitute barriers to the use of medical care by hypertensives. This report summarizes the findings for the 539 hypertensives identified through the baseline survey. In general, Black hypertensives reported more acce…
Maternal depression in an urban pediatric practice
A scale to measure depressive symptomatology was administered to mothers attending an urban pediatric primary care center. Over 50 per cent of the female heads of households were Black or low income and depressed. This suggests that the provider of pediatric primary care should recognize depression and make appropriate referrals or intervention, since depressed mothers may have a diminished ability to respond to the emotional needs of their child…
The Edgecombe County High Blood Pressure Control Program
To guide the planning of a multifacetted hypertension control program in Edgecombe County, North Carolina, a baseline survey of a stratified (by township) random sample of 1,000 households was conducted. All adults (greater than or equal to 18 years) were interviewed and had their blood pressures (BP) measured. Five hundred thirty-nine individuals, 27 per cent of the survey population, had diastolic BP greater than or equal to 90 mm Hg or were re…
Differences in Use of Health Services by Children According to Race
Black children make substantially less use of health services than do their white counterparts, despite their demonstrably poorer health status. This relationship is true regardless of income. Various authors have suggested that such differences are due to system-related barriers to access to care by black children. Alternatively, others have noted that blacks have cultural patterns related to health and illness, and these culturally determined b…
Community coverage in a rural, church-based, hypertension screening program in Edgecombe County, North Carolina
In a rural, church-based hypertension program in Edgecombe County, North Carolina, screening of the congregations was complemented by a community outreach component targeted at 18-60 year old males, a group at higher risk for untreated hypertension. Compared with its estimated frequency in the community, untreated hypertension was as common in the church congregations and somewhat less prevalent than expected among outreach screenees
The Edgecombe County High Blood Pressure Control Program
In a hypertension prevalence survey of a stratified random sample of 1,000 households, 2,030 adults (aged 18 years and over) were interviewed and information on psychosocial variables collected. Among 359 hypertensives, there was a consistent relationship between indicators of difficulty in the social environment and dropout from treatment in women. Compared to those who remained in treatment, women who dropped out can be characterized as having …
Patient Exposition and Physician Explanation in Initial Medical Interviews and Outcomes of Clinic Visits
To replicate an earlier study and explore associations between verbal behaviors in patient-physician interactions and outcomes of care, 102 visits to a medicine walk-in clinic were tape-recorded, transcribed, and coded according to the Verbal Response Mode (VRM) system. Questionnaires given before and after the clinic visit and telephone interviews 1 week and 4 weeks after the visit were used to measure patient satisfaction, compliance, and chang…
Socioeconomic Status, John Henryism, and Hypertension in Blacks and Whites
The joint influence of socioeconomic status and John Henryism on risk for elevated blood pressure was examined in a biracial, community sample of 820 adults, aged 21-50 years, who resided in Edgecombe County, North Carolina, and were interviewed in 1983. John Henryism refers to a strong personality predisposition to cope actively with psychosocial environmental stressors. In keeping with an earlier finding for black men, it was hypothesized that …
Provider-Oriented Interventions and Management of Hypertension
Siscovick, David S. MD*,†; Strogatz, David S. PhD†; Wagner, Edward H. MD‡; Ballard, David J MD†,§; James, Sherman A. PhD†; Beresford, Shirley PhD†; Kleinbaum, David G. PhD∥; Cutchin, Lawrence M. MD¶; Ibrahim, Michel A. MD# Author Information
Chronic stressors and maternal depression
We report on the use of an instrument to measure exposure to stressors among 149 women presenting with their children for pediatric care at an urban primary care center. Overall, 38.3 percent of the women had significant levels of depressive symptoms; 71.4 percent of those in the "high stress" group had an adjusted prevalence odds ratio of 5.00 [95% CI = 2.12, 11.82]. We conclude that screening in the pediatric office is feasible for identifying …
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