Linda P Fried
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 279715 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Linda P Fried |
| NOMBRES | Linda P |
| APELLIDO | Fried |
| FIRMA | FRIED L P |
| AFILIACIONES | Johns Hopkins University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0815-1706 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 42 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 199 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1991 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Carta of Florence Against Ageism
Forward
Schools of public health have increasingly adopted programs, praxis, and competencies for antiracist work. Fighting Oppression, Racism and White Supremacy through Action, Research and Discourse (FORWARD) was founded to accelerate antiracist work at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in New York City. Seven action corps reporting to an accountability cabinet were established with 183 participants. FORWARD achieved progress acr…
The Need to Invest in a Public Health System for Older Adults and Longer Lives, Fit for the Next Pandemic
OPINION article Front. Public Health, 17 June 2021Sec. Aging and Public Health https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.682949
Generation Public Health
Generation Public Health: Fixing the Broken Bridge Between Public Health Education and the Governmental Workforce Heather KrasnaMS, EdM, and Linda FriedMD, MPH Affiliation Heather Krasna is with Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, and the Care and Public Health Research Institute, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands. Linda Fried is with Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. CopyRightCor…
Frailty
Fried and Baccarelli Comment
Rethinking human enhancement as collective welfarism
The Baltimore Experience Corps Trial
Results provide the first-ever, large-scale experimental demonstration that participation in an intergenerational civic engagement program can positively alter self-perceptions of generativity in older adulthood
Reinventing Public Health Education for the 21st Century
AffiliationsMailman School of Public Health, New York, NYThe Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, New York, NY
Columbia Public Health Core Curriculum
We evaluated a transformed core curriculum for the Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health (New York, New York) master of public health (MPH) degree. The curriculum, launched in 2012, aims to teach public health as it is practiced: in interdisciplinary teams, drawing on expertise from multiple domains to address complex health challenges. We collected evaluation data starting when the first class of students entered the program and e…
Innovating for 21st-Century Public Health Education
AffiliationsThe author is a guest editor for this issue and is with the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY
Developing the New Columbia Core Curriculum
Curricular change is essential for maintaining vibrant, timely, and relevant educational programming. However, major renewal of a long-standing curriculum at an established university presents many challenges for leaders, faculty, staff, and students. We present a case study of a dramatic curriculum renewal of one of the nation’s largest Master of Public Health degree programs: Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. We discuss con…
Productivity & Engagement in an Aging America
Volunteering in late life is associated with health benefits such as reduced risk of hypertension, improved self-related health and well-being, delayed physical disability, enhanced cognition, and lower mortality. Although the mechanisms of these correlations are not clear, increases in physical activity, cognitive engagement, and social interactions likely play contributing roles. Volunteers are typically thought to represent a select group, oft…
Increases in Lifestyle Activities as a Result of Experience Corps® Participation
MPH Education for the 21st Century
Because public health challenges are changing rapidly, over the past 3 years, we have turned a critical eye to the master of public health program at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Under a process dubbed “curriculum renewal,” we engaged more than 170 faculty, staff, and students (and hundreds of alumni and employers of our graduates) in an initiative to develop a completely new design for master of public health educatio…
MPH Education for the 21st Century
Public health is at a watershed moment. The world’s health needs are changing, and complex problems require interdisciplinary approaches and systems-based solutions. Our longer lives and changing environments necessitate life-course and structural approaches to prevention. This argues strongly for public health graduate education that adequately prepares trainees to tackle emerging challenges and to lead now and in the future. Nearly a century of…
Differences In Life Expectancy Due To Race And Educational Differences Are Widening, And Many May Not Catch Up
It has long been known that despite well-documented improvements in longevity for most Americans, alarming disparities persist among racial groups and between the well-educated and those with less education. In this article we update estimates of the impact of race and education on past and present life expectancy, examine trends in disparities from 1990 through 2008, and place observed disparities in the context of a rapidly aging society that i…
Global public health leadership for the twenty-first century
We are at an unprecedented moment in history in terms of the health of populations around the world. New and old problems all require both short- and long-term solutions, at the individual, community, national and global levels. Unique solutions for each challenge may not be feasible or adequately effective or cost-effective. We are confronted by health systems that are not well matched to current and future needs, both for sustained prevention a…
The changing landscape of global public health
Over the course of the past two decades, we have witnessed an unprecedented period of growth in the field of global health. The impact of exceptionally rapid globalisation has been especially profo
Aging, Climate Change, and Legacy Thinking
Climate change is a complex, long-term public health challenge. Older people are especially susceptible to certain climate change impacts, such as heat waves. We suggest that older people may be a resource for addressing climate change because of their concern for legacy—for leaving behind values, attitudes, and an intact world to their children and grandchildren. We review the theoretical basis for “legacy thinking” among older people. We offer …
Socioeconomic status is associated with frailty
BACKGROUND: Frailty is a common risk factor for morbidity and mortality in older adults. Although both low socioeconomic status (SES) and frailty are important sources of vulnerability, there is limited research examining their relationship. A study was undertaken to determine (1) the extent to which low SES was associated with increased odds of frailty and (2) whether race was associated with frailty, independent of SES. METHODS: A cross-section…
Marketing Public Health Through Older Adult Volunteering
Objectives. We present a social marketing conceptual framework for Experience Corps Baltimore City (EC) in which the desired health outcome is not the promoted product or behavior. We also demonstrate the feasibility of a social marketing–based recruitment campaign for the first year of the Baltimore Experience Corps Trial (BECT), a randomized, controlled trial of the health benefits of EC participation for older adults. Methods. We recruited old…
The Exodus of Public Health What History Can Tell Us About the Future
We trace the shifting definitions of the American public health profession's mission as a social reform and science-based endeavor. Its authority coalesced in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as public health identified itself with housing, sanitation, and labor reform efforts. The field ceded that authority to medicine and other professions as it jettisoned its social mission in favor of a science-based identity. Understanding t…
Potential for Intensive Volunteering to Promote the Health of Older Adults in Fair Health
The Long-Term Relationship Between High-Intensity Volunteering and Physical Activity in Older African American Women
EC volunteers reported a sustained increase in physical activity as compared with the comparison cohort. Baseline physical activity for individuals with a median propensity score was 420 kcal/wk for both groups. At 36 months, EC volunteers reported 670 kcal/week compared with 410 kcal/week in WHAS (p = .04). Discussion These findings suggest that high-intensity senior service programs that are designed as health promotion interventions could lead…
Effect of Financial Strain on Mortality in Community-Dwelling Older Women
For older women, financial strain may be a better predictor of mortality than annual income, particularly in the case of older African American women
The Exodus of Public Health What History Can Tell Us About the Future
We trace the shifting definitions of the American public health profession's mission as a social reform and science-based endeavor. Its authority coalesced in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as public health identified itself with housing, sanitation, and labor reform efforts. The field ceded that authority to medicine and other professions as it jettisoned its social mission in favor of a science-based identity. Understanding t…
The Baltimore Experience Corps Trial
Results provide the first-ever, large-scale experimental demonstration that participation in an intergenerational civic engagement program can positively alter self-perceptions of generativity in older adulthood
Productivity & Engagement in an Aging America
Volunteering in late life is associated with health benefits such as reduced risk of hypertension, improved self-related health and well-being, delayed physical disability, enhanced cognition, and lower mortality. Although the mechanisms of these correlations are not clear, increases in physical activity, cognitive engagement, and social interactions likely play contributing roles. Volunteers are typically thought to represent a select group, oft…
The Long-Term Relationship Between High-Intensity Volunteering and Physical Activity in Older African American Women
EC volunteers reported a sustained increase in physical activity as compared with the comparison cohort. Baseline physical activity for individuals with a median propensity score was 420 kcal/wk for both groups. At 36 months, EC volunteers reported 670 kcal/week compared with 410 kcal/week in WHAS (p = .04). Discussion These findings suggest that high-intensity senior service programs that are designed as health promotion interventions could lead…
Severity of Upper and Lower Extremity Functional Limitation
These scales, constructed from commonly used self-report measures of function, provide discrete measures of upper and lower functional limitation. Because these scales are distinct from measures of disability and impairment, their use should facilitate increased understanding of the disablement process
Preclinical Disability
Accomplishing a compression of morbidity will require prevention of disability, a significant component of illness in older adults. To do this, better understanding is needed of the natural history of functional loss prior to disability. The authors hypothesize that there is an identifiable stage of preclinical disability that will predict future disability and identify a focus for prevention. It is proposed, based on observations in the Johns Ho…
Relationship of race and poverty to lower extremity function and decline
Volunteering
Socioeconomic status is associated with frailty
BACKGROUND: Frailty is a common risk factor for morbidity and mortality in older adults. Although both low socioeconomic status (SES) and frailty are important sources of vulnerability, there is limited research examining their relationship. A study was undertaken to determine (1) the extent to which low SES was associated with increased odds of frailty and (2) whether race was associated with frailty, independent of SES. METHODS: A cross-section…
MPH Education for the 21st Century
Because public health challenges are changing rapidly, over the past 3 years, we have turned a critical eye to the master of public health program at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Under a process dubbed “curriculum renewal,” we engaged more than 170 faculty, staff, and students (and hundreds of alumni and employers of our graduates) in an initiative to develop a completely new design for master of public health educatio…
Engaging Older Adults in High Impact Volunteering that Enhances Health
MPH Education for the 21st Century
Public health is at a watershed moment. The world’s health needs are changing, and complex problems require interdisciplinary approaches and systems-based solutions. Our longer lives and changing environments necessitate life-course and structural approaches to prevention. This argues strongly for public health graduate education that adequately prepares trainees to tackle emerging challenges and to lead now and in the future. Nearly a century of…
Aging, Climate Change, and Legacy Thinking
Climate change is a complex, long-term public health challenge. Older people are especially susceptible to certain climate change impacts, such as heat waves. We suggest that older people may be a resource for addressing climate change because of their concern for legacy—for leaving behind values, attitudes, and an intact world to their children and grandchildren. We review the theoretical basis for “legacy thinking” among older people. We offer …
Potential for Intensive Volunteering to Promote the Health of Older Adults in Fair Health
Increases in Lifestyle Activities as a Result of Experience Corps® Participation
Generation Public Health
Generation Public Health: Fixing the Broken Bridge Between Public Health Education and the Governmental Workforce Heather KrasnaMS, EdM, and Linda FriedMD, MPH Affiliation Heather Krasna is with Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, and the Care and Public Health Research Institute, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands. Linda Fried is with Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. CopyRightCor…
The Physical Functioning Inventory
The Physical Functioning Inventory, an instrument designed to assess changes in how and how often activities are performed in persons reporting difficulty with a task as well as in those who do not, is described. The measure is designed for adults. Interrater and test-retest reliability were assessed with active participants in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging (BLSA). Percentage agreement ranged from 63% to 100%. The instrument was also …
Rethinking human enhancement as collective welfarism
Developing the New Columbia Core Curriculum
Curricular change is essential for maintaining vibrant, timely, and relevant educational programming. However, major renewal of a long-standing curriculum at an established university presents many challenges for leaders, faculty, staff, and students. We present a case study of a dramatic curriculum renewal of one of the nation’s largest Master of Public Health degree programs: Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. We discuss con…
Fried and Baccarelli Comment
The Effect of Depressive Symptoms on the Association between Functional Status and Social Participation
Preclinical Disability
Accomplishing a compression of morbidity will require prevention of disability, a significant component of illness in older adults. To do this, better understanding is needed of the natural history of functional loss prior to disability. The authors hypothesize that there is an identifiable stage of preclinical disability that will predict future disability and identify a focus for prevention. It is proposed, based on observations in the Johns Ho…
Disability as a Public Health Outcome in the Aging Population
Improvements in life expectancy in the twentieth century have resulted from major declines in mortality at younger ages, but it is less well recognized that mortality declines at older ages have also played a substantial role in prolonging expectation of life. A person reaching age 65 in 1900 could expect to live an additional 11.9 years. Life expectancy at age 65 rose to 14.4 years by 1960 and then increased by about three years in the next thre…
Disability in Older Adults
OBJECTIVES: This article synthesizes and assesses current evidence about the importance of physical disability to older adults. It then considers the applications of research findings to clinical geriatrics practice. RESULTS: Physical disability is a major adverse health outcome associated with aging. Certain subgroups of older adults, including individuals with mobility difficulty, with preclinical functional changes, and persons who are hospita…
Risk Factors for 5-Year Mortality in Older Adults The Cardiovascular Health Study
CONTEXT: Multiple factors contribute to mortality in older adults, but the extent to which subclinical disease and other factors contribute independently to mortality risk is not known. OBJECTIVE: To determine the disease, functional, and personal characteristics that jointly predict mortality in community-dwelling men and women aged 65 years or older. DESIGN: Prospective population-based cohort study with 5 years of follow-up and a validation co…
Frailty in Older Adults
BACKGROUND: Frailty is considered highly prevalent in old age and to confer high risk for falls, disability, hospitalization, and mortality. Frailty has been considered synonymous with disability, comorbidity, and other characteristics, but it is recognized that it may have a biologic basis and be a distinct clinical syndrome. A standardized definition has not yet been established. METHODS: To develop and operationalize a phenotype of frailty in …
The Physical Functioning Inventory
The Physical Functioning Inventory, an instrument designed to assess changes in how and how often activities are performed in persons reporting difficulty with a task as well as in those who do not, is described. The measure is designed for adults. Interrater and test-retest reliability were assessed with active participants in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging (BLSA). Percentage agreement ranged from 63% to 100%. The instrument was also …
Severity of Upper and Lower Extremity Functional Limitation
These scales, constructed from commonly used self-report measures of function, provide discrete measures of upper and lower functional limitation. Because these scales are distinct from measures of disability and impairment, their use should facilitate increased understanding of the disablement process
Reproducibility of Two Approaches for Assessing Alcohol Consumption Among Older Adults
Objectives. In this study, we hypothesized that there is greater disclosure in self reports of alcohol intake when details of quantity-frequency measures of alcohol consumption are ascertained in the context of a general health and life style questionnaire as compared to a directed interview on usual drinking habits. Methods. Data are from the 1993 to 1994 follow-up of the Washington County cohort of men and women 65 years and older, participatin…
Untangling the Concepts of Disability, Frailty, and Comorbidity
Three terms are commonly used interchangeably to identify vulnerable older adults: comorbidity, or multiple chronic conditions, frailty, and disability. However, in geriatric medicine, there is a growing consensus that these are distinct clinical entities that are causally related. Each, individually, occurs frequently and has high import clinically. This article provides a narrative review of current understanding of the definitions and distingu…
A Social Model for Health Promotion for an Aging Population
Clinical Practice Guidelines and Quality of Care for Older Patients With Multiple Comorbid Diseases
CONTEXT: Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) have been developed to improve the quality of health care for many chronic conditions. Pay-for-performance initiatives assess physician adherence to interventions that may reflect CPG recommendations. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the applicability of CPGs to the care of older individuals with several comorbid diseases. DATA SOURCES: The National Health Interview Survey and a nationally representative sample …
Research Agenda for Frailty in Older Adults
Evolving definitions of frailty, and improved understanding of molecular and physiological declines in multiple systems that may increase vulnerability in frail, older adults has encouraged investigators from many disciplines to contribute to this emerging field of research. This article reports on the results of the 2004 American Geriatrics Society/National Institute on Aging conference on a Research Agenda on Frailty in Older Adults, which brou…
Engaging Older Adults in High Impact Volunteering that Enhances Health
Volunteering
The Effect of Depressive Symptoms on the Association between Functional Status and Social Participation
Effect of Financial Strain on Mortality in Community-Dwelling Older Women
For older women, financial strain may be a better predictor of mortality than annual income, particularly in the case of older African American women
Relationship of race and poverty to lower extremity function and decline
Potential for Intensive Volunteering to Promote the Health of Older Adults in Fair Health
The Long-Term Relationship Between High-Intensity Volunteering and Physical Activity in Older African American Women
EC volunteers reported a sustained increase in physical activity as compared with the comparison cohort. Baseline physical activity for individuals with a median propensity score was 420 kcal/wk for both groups. At 36 months, EC volunteers reported 670 kcal/week compared with 410 kcal/week in WHAS (p = .04). Discussion These findings suggest that high-intensity senior service programs that are designed as health promotion interventions could lead…
Socioeconomic status is associated with frailty
BACKGROUND: Frailty is a common risk factor for morbidity and mortality in older adults. Although both low socioeconomic status (SES) and frailty are important sources of vulnerability, there is limited research examining their relationship. A study was undertaken to determine (1) the extent to which low SES was associated with increased odds of frailty and (2) whether race was associated with frailty, independent of SES. METHODS: A cross-section…
Marketing Public Health Through Older Adult Volunteering
Objectives. We present a social marketing conceptual framework for Experience Corps Baltimore City (EC) in which the desired health outcome is not the promoted product or behavior. We also demonstrate the feasibility of a social marketing–based recruitment campaign for the first year of the Baltimore Experience Corps Trial (BECT), a randomized, controlled trial of the health benefits of EC participation for older adults. Methods. We recruited old…
The Exodus of Public Health What History Can Tell Us About the Future
We trace the shifting definitions of the American public health profession's mission as a social reform and science-based endeavor. Its authority coalesced in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as public health identified itself with housing, sanitation, and labor reform efforts. The field ceded that authority to medicine and other professions as it jettisoned its social mission in favor of a science-based identity. Understanding t…
Differences In Life Expectancy Due To Race And Educational Differences Are Widening, And Many May Not Catch Up
It has long been known that despite well-documented improvements in longevity for most Americans, alarming disparities persist among racial groups and between the well-educated and those with less education. In this article we update estimates of the impact of race and education on past and present life expectancy, examine trends in disparities from 1990 through 2008, and place observed disparities in the context of a rapidly aging society that i…
Global public health leadership for the twenty-first century
We are at an unprecedented moment in history in terms of the health of populations around the world. New and old problems all require both short- and long-term solutions, at the individual, community, national and global levels. Unique solutions for each challenge may not be feasible or adequately effective or cost-effective. We are confronted by health systems that are not well matched to current and future needs, both for sustained prevention a…
The changing landscape of global public health
Over the course of the past two decades, we have witnessed an unprecedented period of growth in the field of global health. The impact of exceptionally rapid globalisation has been especially profo
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