Craig Evan Pollack
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 177106 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Craig Evan Pollack |
| NOMBRES | Craig Evan |
| APELLIDO | Pollack |
| FIRMA | POLLACK C E |
| AFILIACIONES | Johns Hopkins University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2464-6415 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 42 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 166 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2003 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Cigarette smoking and attempts to quits among adults receiving federal housing assistance from 2005 to 2018, NHIS-HUD linked data
Among HUD-assisted adults, smoking prevalence has decreased, and past-year quit attempts have increased. While progress has been made, increased efforts to support smoking cessation are needed for HUD-assisted adults
Housing Quality Metric (HQM)
Objectives. To develop a national, tract-level measure of neighborhood housing quality and test its validity by examining associations with population health metrics. Methods. Using microdata from the 2021 American Housing Survey postfit to the 2018–2022 American Community Survey, we developed the Housing Quality Metric (HQM), which predicts the likelihood that a US census tract contains a large share of poor-quality housing units across 3 domain…
Health and Healthcare Access Among Adults Living in Affordable Housing
By merging data from the National Health Interview Survey (2004–2016) with a census of buildings financed by the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC), this study provides national estimates for the health status and healthcare access among low-income adults living in LIHTC-financed housing. Compared to those not living in LIHTC-financed housing, unadjusted analyses found that younger adults (age 18–64) living in LIHTC-financed housing reported w…
Patterns of Morbidity Across the Lifespan
BACKGROUND: Classification systems to segment such patients into subgroups for purposes of care management and population analytics should balance administrative simplicity with clinical meaning and measurement precision. OBJECTIVE: To describe and empirically apply a new clinically relevant population segmentation framework applicable to all payers and all ages across the lifespan. RESEARCH DESIGN AND SUBJECTS: Cross-sectional analyses using ins…
Development and Evaluation of Messages for Reducing Overscreening of Breast Cancer in Older Women
BACKGROUND: Many older women are screened for breast cancer beyond guideline-recommended thresholds. One contributor is pro-screening messaging from health care professionals, media, and family/friends. In this project, we developed and evaluated messages for reducing overscreening in older women. METHODS: We surveyed women ages 65+ who were members of a nationally representative online panel. We constructed 8 messages describing reasons to consi…
Using the Moving to Opportunity Experiment to Investigate the Long-Term Impact of Neighborhoods on Healthcare Use by Specific Clinical Conditions and Type of Service
We performed a secondary analysis of the Moving To Opportunity (MTO) social experiment to investigate the impact of different types of housing assistance and neighborhood environments on long-term patterns of health care use for specific conditions and across different types of health care services. MTO participants, who were randomized at baseline, were linked to up to 21 years of all-payer hospital discharge and Medicaid data. Among the 9,170 c…
Mechanisms to Improve Health Through Community Land Trusts
Revisiting revitalization
Vacant housing can produce many issues that affect residents' quality of life, especially in historically segregated communities of color. To address these challenges, local governments invest in strategic, place-based revitalization initiatives focused on the regeneration of vacant housing. Yet, the outcomes of these efforts remain contested. To maximize health benefits of revitalization investments, a more nuanced understanding of pathways betw…
Building health equity through housing policies
Housing may be at once the most powerful and underused tool at our disposal to improve population health. Using examples from the USA, we argue that current levels of housing insecurity are the result of clear and inequitable policy choices, leading to the entrenchment of health inequities—particularly, across race and class. Solutions to housing insecurity must, therefore, be structural. The COVID-19 pandemic has opened a window of opportunity f…
Cancer Screening Among Adults With and Without Serious Mental Illness
BACKGROUND: Persons with serious mental illness (SMI) die 10-20 years earlier than the general population; cancer is the second leading cause of death. Differences in cancer screening between SMI and the general population are not well understood. OBJECTIVES: To describe receipt of cancer screening among individuals with versus without SMI and to explore clinicians' perceptions around cancer screening for people with SMI. METHODS: Mixed-methods s…
Using an Agent-based Model to Examine Deimplementation of Breast Cancer Screening
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to examine the potential impact of provider social networks and experiences with patients on deimplementation of breast cancer screening. RESEARCH DESIGN: We constructed the Breast Cancer-Social network Agent-based Model (BC-SAM), which depicts breast cancer screening decisions, incidence, and progression among 10,000 women ages 40 and over and the screening recommendations of their providers over a 30-y…
Community Land Trusts as a Means to Improve Health
Eviction in early childhood and neighborhood poverty, food security, and obesity in later childhood and adolescence
Eviction affects a substantial share of U.S. children, but its effects on child health are largely unknown. Our objectives were to examine how eviction relates to 1) children's health and sociodemographic characteristics at birth, 2) neighborhood poverty and food security at age 5, and 3) obesity in later childhood and adolescence. We analyzed data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a longitudinal cohort of children born in 20 l…
Severe Housing Insecurity during Pregnancy
Introduction: Housing insecurity is increasingly commonplace among disadvantaged women and children. We measured the individual- and population-level impact of severe housing insecurity during pregnancy on adverse birth and infant outcomes. Methods: We analyzed data from 3428 mother-infant dyads enrolled in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a prospective cohort study representing births in 20 large U.S. cities from 1998 to 2000. Sev…
Association Between Degrees of Separation in Physician Networks and Surgeons’ Use of Perioperative Breast Magnetic Resonance Imaging
BACKGROUND: Perioperative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is frequently used in breast cancer despite unproven benefits. It is unclear whether surgeons' use of breast MRI is associated with the practices of other surgeons to whom they are connected through shared patients. METHODS: We conducted a retrospective study using Medicare data to identify physicians providing breast cancer care during 2007-2009 and grouped them into patient-sharing netw…
Racial Differences in Prostate Cancer Treatment
These results stress the importance of examining racial disparities within geographic areas and highlight the unique associations that different measures of SES, particularly neighborhood SES and education, may have with prostate cancer treatment
Leveraging Housing Vouchers to Address Health Disparities
AffiliationsD. R. Bailey Miles is with the Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. Barbara Samuels is with the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland, Baltimore. Craig E. Pollack is with the Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Low-Income Housing Tax Credit
Racial Differences in Geographic Access to Medical Care as Measured by Patient Report and Geographic Information Systems
BACKGROUND: Geographic access-the travel burden required to reach medical care-is an important aspect of care. Studies, which typically rely on geographic information system (GIS) calculated travel times, have found some evidence of racial disparities in spatial access to care. However, the validity of these studies depends on the accuracy of travel times by patient race. OBJECTIVES: To determine if there are racial differences when comparing pat…
Care Coordination - How can we measure it
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 2.913 (2021 JCR, received in June 2022)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Does Churning in Medicaid Affect Health Care Use
BACKGROUND: Transitions into and out of Medicaid, termed churning, may disrupt access to and continuity of care. Low-income, working adults who became eligible for Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act are particularly susceptible to income and employment changes that lead to churning. OBJECTIVE: To compare health care use among adults who do and do not churn into and out of Medicaid. DATA: Longitudinal data from 6 panels of the Medical Expendit…
Measuring Care Continuity
Background: Assessing care continuity is important in evaluating the impact of health care reform and changes to health care delivery. Multiple measures of care continuity have been developed for use with claims data. Objective: This study examined whether alternative continuity measures provide distinct assessments of coordination within predefined episodes of care. Research Design and Subjects: This was a retrospective cohort study using 2008–2…
Linking social and built environmental factors to the health of public housing residents
Changes in housing and city policies might lead to improved environmental health conditions for public housing residents. Policymakers and researchers may consider promoting community cohesiveness to attempt to empower residents in facilitating neighborhood change
Health implications of social networks for children living in public housing
Intergenerational Social Networks and Health Behaviors Among Children Living in Public Housing
Objectives. In a survey of families living in public housing, we investigated whether caretakers’ social networks are linked with children’s health status. Methods. In 2011, 209 children and their caretakers living in public housing in suburban Montgomery County, Maryland, were surveyed regarding their health and social networks. We used logistic regression models to examine the associations between the perceived health composition of caretaker s…
Social capital and health among the aged
Health Status of People Undergoing Foreclosure in the Philadelphia Region
Objectives. We assessed the health status of people undergoing mortgage foreclosure in the Philadelphia region to determine if there was a relationship between foreclosure and health. Methods. Participants were recruited in partnership with a mortgage counseling agency. Participants' health status and health care use were compared with a community sample from the 2008 Southeastern Pennsylvania Household Health Survey. We used publicly filed forec…
Mortgage Delinquency and Changes in Access to Health Resources and Depressive Symptoms in a Nationally Representative Cohort of Americans Older Than 50 Years
Objectives. We evaluated associations between mortgage delinquency and changes in health and health-relevant resources over 2 years, with data from the Health and Retirement Study, a longitudinal survey representative of US adults older than 50 years. Methods. In 2008, participants reported whether they had fallen behind on mortgage payments since 2006 (n = 2474). We used logistic regression to compare changes in health (incidence of elevated dep…
A Case–Control Study of Home Foreclosure, Health Conditions, and Health Care Utilization
Social Productivity and Well-being of Older People
Assessing Alternative Measures of Wealth in Health Research
Objectives. We assessed whether it would be feasible to replace the standard measure of net worth with simpler measures of wealth in population-based studies examining associations between wealth and health. Methods. We used data from the 2004 Survey of Consumer Finances (respondents aged 25–64 years) and the 2004 Health and Retirement Survey (respondents aged 50 years or older) to construct logistic regression models relating wealth to health st…
Do wealth disparities contribute to health disparities within racial/ethnic groups
BACKGROUND: Though wide disparities in wealth have been documented across racial/ethnic groups, it is largely unknown whether differences in wealth are associated with health disparities within racial/ethnic groups. METHODS: Data from the Survey of Consumer Finances (2004, ages 25-64) and the Health and Retirement Survey (2004, ages 50+), containing a wide range of assets and debts variables, were used to calculate net worth (a standard measure o…
Burial at Srebrenica
Building health equity through housing policies
Housing may be at once the most powerful and underused tool at our disposal to improve population health. Using examples from the USA, we argue that current levels of housing insecurity are the result of clear and inequitable policy choices, leading to the entrenchment of health inequities—particularly, across race and class. Solutions to housing insecurity must, therefore, be structural. The COVID-19 pandemic has opened a window of opportunity f…
Housing and health in Germany
Study objectives: To examine the association between housing tenure and self rated health, controlling for socioeconomic measures and testing the mediating effects of physical features of the home, pollution in the local environment, and relationships with neighbours. Design: Cross sectional panel study with people nested within households. Analyses were performed using multilevel methods. Setting: Population based sample in Germany. Participants…
Health implications of social networks for children living in public housing
The Impact of Public Housing on Social Networks
Objectives. We assessed whether 2 types of public housing—scattered among market-rate housing developments or clustered in small public housing projects—were associated with the perceived health and health behaviors of residents’ social networks. Methods. Leveraging a natural experiment in Montgomery County, Maryland, in which residents were randomly assigned to different types of public housing, we surveyed 453 heads of household in 2011. We ask…
Intergenerational Social Networks and Health Behaviors Among Children Living in Public Housing
Objectives. In a survey of families living in public housing, we investigated whether caretakers’ social networks are linked with children’s health status. Methods. In 2011, 209 children and their caretakers living in public housing in suburban Montgomery County, Maryland, were surveyed regarding their health and social networks. We used logistic regression models to examine the associations between the perceived health composition of caretaker s…
Returning to a Safe Area? The Importance of Burial for Return to Srebrenica
Repatriation and burial were intimately linked in the minds of survivors from Srebrenica, Bosnia‐Herzegovina. A United Nations ‘Safe Area’, Srebrenica was attacked in 1995 by the Serb military who, in the process, displaced tens of thousands of people and caused the disappearance of over 7,000 men. Five years after the assault, survivors considered returning to their prewar homes. Simultaneously, they lobbied the government to bury the bodies of …
Returning to a Safe Area? The Importance of Burial for Return to Srebrenica
Repatriation and burial were intimately linked in the minds of survivors from Srebrenica, Bosnia‐Herzegovina. A United Nations ‘Safe Area’, Srebrenica was attacked in 1995 by the Serb military who, in the process, displaced tens of thousands of people and caused the disappearance of over 7,000 men. Five years after the assault, survivors considered returning to their prewar homes. Simultaneously, they lobbied the government to bury the bodies of …
Burial at Srebrenica
Social Productivity and Well-being of Older People
Social capital and health among the aged
Housing and health in Germany
Study objectives: To examine the association between housing tenure and self rated health, controlling for socioeconomic measures and testing the mediating effects of physical features of the home, pollution in the local environment, and relationships with neighbours. Design: Cross sectional panel study with people nested within households. Analyses were performed using multilevel methods. Setting: Population based sample in Germany. Participants…
Neighbourhood deprivation and alcohol consumption
BACKGROUND: Previous studies suggest that the physical availability of alcohol may mediate the association between neighbourhood-level material deprivation and alcohol consumption. This study tests the relationships between neighbourhood-level deprivation, alcohol availability, and individual-level alcohol consumption using a multilevel analysis. METHODS: Data are from cross-sectional surveys conducted between 1979 and 1990 as part of the Stanfor…
Should Health Studies Measure Wealth?
Health Status of People Undergoing Foreclosure in the Philadelphia Region
Objectives. We assessed the health status of people undergoing mortgage foreclosure in the Philadelphia region to determine if there was a relationship between foreclosure and health. Methods. Participants were recruited in partnership with a mortgage counseling agency. Participants' health status and health care use were compared with a community sample from the 2008 Southeastern Pennsylvania Household Health Survey. We used publicly filed forec…
Housing Affordability and Health Among Homeowners and Renters
A Case–Control Study of Home Foreclosure, Health Conditions, and Health Care Utilization
Mortgage Delinquency and Changes in Access to Health Resources and Depressive Symptoms in a Nationally Representative Cohort of Americans Older Than 50 Years
Objectives. We evaluated associations between mortgage delinquency and changes in health and health-relevant resources over 2 years, with data from the Health and Retirement Study, a longitudinal survey representative of US adults older than 50 years. Methods. In 2008, participants reported whether they had fallen behind on mortgage payments since 2006 (n = 2474). We used logistic regression to compare changes in health (incidence of elevated dep…
Assessing Alternative Measures of Wealth in Health Research
Objectives. We assessed whether it would be feasible to replace the standard measure of net worth with simpler measures of wealth in population-based studies examining associations between wealth and health. Methods. We used data from the 2004 Survey of Consumer Finances (respondents aged 25–64 years) and the 2004 Health and Retirement Survey (respondents aged 50 years or older) to construct logistic regression models relating wealth to health st…
Racial Disparities in Changing to a High-volume Urologist Among Men With Localized Prostate Cancer
BACKGROUND: Patients who receive surgery from high-volume surgeons tend to have better outcomes. Black patients, however, are less likely to receive surgery from high-volume surgeons. OBJECTIVE: Among men with localized prostate cancer, we examined whether disparities in use of high-volume urologists resulted from racial differences in patients being diagnosed by high-volume urologists and/or changing to high-volume urologists for surgery. RESEAR…
Do wealth disparities contribute to health disparities within racial/ethnic groups
BACKGROUND: Though wide disparities in wealth have been documented across racial/ethnic groups, it is largely unknown whether differences in wealth are associated with health disparities within racial/ethnic groups. METHODS: Data from the Survey of Consumer Finances (2004, ages 25-64) and the Health and Retirement Survey (2004, ages 50+), containing a wide range of assets and debts variables, were used to calculate net worth (a standard measure o…
The Impact of Public Housing on Social Networks
Objectives. We assessed whether 2 types of public housing—scattered among market-rate housing developments or clustered in small public housing projects—were associated with the perceived health and health behaviors of residents’ social networks. Methods. Leveraging a natural experiment in Montgomery County, Maryland, in which residents were randomly assigned to different types of public housing, we surveyed 453 heads of household in 2011. We ask…
Linking social and built environmental factors to the health of public housing residents
Changes in housing and city policies might lead to improved environmental health conditions for public housing residents. Policymakers and researchers may consider promoting community cohesiveness to attempt to empower residents in facilitating neighborhood change
Health implications of social networks for children living in public housing
Intergenerational Social Networks and Health Behaviors Among Children Living in Public Housing
Objectives. In a survey of families living in public housing, we investigated whether caretakers’ social networks are linked with children’s health status. Methods. In 2011, 209 children and their caretakers living in public housing in suburban Montgomery County, Maryland, were surveyed regarding their health and social networks. We used logistic regression models to examine the associations between the perceived health composition of caretaker s…
Patient Sharing and Quality of Care
BACKGROUND: With the goal of improving clinical efficiency and effectiveness, programs to enhance care coordination are a major focus of health care reform. OBJECTIVE: To examine whether "care density"--a claims-based measure of patient sharing by office-based physicians--is associated with measures of quality. Care density is a proxy measure that may reflect how frequently a patient's doctors collaborate. RESEARCH DESIGN: Cohort study using admi…
The Relationship Between Education and Prostate-Specific Antigen Testing Among Urban African American Medicare Beneficiaries
Care Coordination - How can we measure it
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 2.913 (2021 JCR, received in June 2022)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Does Churning in Medicaid Affect Health Care Use
BACKGROUND: Transitions into and out of Medicaid, termed churning, may disrupt access to and continuity of care. Low-income, working adults who became eligible for Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act are particularly susceptible to income and employment changes that lead to churning. OBJECTIVE: To compare health care use among adults who do and do not churn into and out of Medicaid. DATA: Longitudinal data from 6 panels of the Medical Expendit…
Measuring Care Continuity
Background: Assessing care continuity is important in evaluating the impact of health care reform and changes to health care delivery. Multiple measures of care continuity have been developed for use with claims data. Objective: This study examined whether alternative continuity measures provide distinct assessments of coordination within predefined episodes of care. Research Design and Subjects: This was a retrospective cohort study using 2008–2…
Racial Differences in Prostate Cancer Treatment
These results stress the importance of examining racial disparities within geographic areas and highlight the unique associations that different measures of SES, particularly neighborhood SES and education, may have with prostate cancer treatment
Leveraging Housing Vouchers to Address Health Disparities
AffiliationsD. R. Bailey Miles is with the Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. Barbara Samuels is with the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland, Baltimore. Craig E. Pollack is with the Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
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