Ronica Rooks

Datos Biográficos

ID3575749
NOMBRERonica Rooks
NOMBRESRonica
APELLIDORooks
FIRMAROOKS R
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Colorado Denver
ORCID0000-0002-1308-7454
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS14
TOTAL DE CITAS52
TOTAL COMO AUTOR14
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2002
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2024
ÍNDICE H4

  • US Hospital Service Availability and New 340B Program Participation

    Open AccessKelsey M Owsley, Romana Hasnain-Wynia et al.ARTICLEJAMA Health Forum2024

    The finding of the cohort study indicate that participation in the 340B program was associated with an increase in unprofitable services among newly participating public hospitals. Nonprofit hospitals were largely unaffected. These findings suggest that public hospitals responded to 340B savings by improving patient access, whereas nonprofits did not. This heterogeneous response should be considered when evaluating the eligibility criteria for th…

  • Cognition and Wealth Changes in Mid-to-later Life

    Open AccessAshly C Westrick, Darlingtina Esiaka et al.ARTICLEJournal of Aging and Health2024Referencias: 5

    ObjectivesTo assess how cognitive trajectories from mid-to-later life relate to wealth change, overall and by mid-life income. Methods: Data were from participants (51-64 years) in the 2000-2018 U.S. Health and Retirement Study who were cognitively healthy at baseline (year 2000; unweighted n = 3821). Longitudinal latent class analyses generated cognitive and wealth trajectories, independently, and multinomial logistic regressions estimated the a…

  • The intersectional importance of race/ethnicity, disability, and age in flu vaccine uptake for U.S. adults

    Open AccessRebecca D Breaux, Ronica N Rooks et al.ARTICLESSM - Population Health2022

    Improving vaccination rates among marginalized populations is an important priority among public policy makers and healthcare providers in the United States of America (U.S.). Racial/ethnic minorities have a long history of reduced vaccination rates relative to white Americans (Khan, Hall, Tanner, & Marlow, 2018), while people with disabilities (PWD) have varied rates of vaccine use (Diab & Johnston, 2004; O'Neill, Newall, Antolovich, Lima, & Dan…

  • Intersections of Adverse Childhood Experiences, Race and Ethnicity and Asthma Outcomes

    Open AccessTristen Hall, Ronica Rooks et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2020

    Racial and ethnic minority subpopulations experience a disproportionate burden of asthma and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). These disparities result from systematic differences in risk exposure, opportunity access, and return on resources, but we know little about how accumulated differentials in ACEs may be associated with adult asthma by racial/ethnic groups. We used Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data (N = 114,015) from 2009…

  • Chronic Conditions May Be More Important Than Race or Ethnicity in Relation to Health Information Seeking and Use

    Open AccessRonica N Rooks, Ronica Rooks et al.ARTICLEJournal of Aging and Health2017Referencias: 5

    Middle-aged and older adults with chronic conditions are prominent HI seekers and users. Proficient HI seeking and use may have the potential to enhance control over one's own health, maintain independence in the community, and reduce the impact of negative health consequences on the health care system

  • Accelerated Health Declines among African Americans in the USA

    Open AccessRoland J Thorpe, Ruth G Fesahazion et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Health2016Citada por: 13Referencias: 14

  • Improving the Neighborhood Environment for Urban Older Adults

    Open AccessArlesia Mathis, Ronica Rooks et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2015

    Given the increasing numbers of older adults living in urban neighborhoods, studies such as this one are important for well-being among seniors. Mitigating environmental influences in the neighborhood which are associated with poor SRH may allow urban older adults to maintain health and reduce disability

  • Examining Neighborhood Environment and Central Obesity in the YES Health Study

    Open AccessRonica N Rooks, Ronica Rooks et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social Issues2014Citada por: 2Referencias: 34

    We examined the relationship between neighborhood environment (e.g., objective neighborhood socioeconomic status [SES] and subjective neighborhood perceptions) and waist‐hip ratio (WHR) or central obesity using logistic regression and content analysis of respondents’ narratives on housing unfair treatment in the YES Health pilot study. Multivariate results showed significant relationships between low SES White, low SES Black, and middle SES Black…

  • Health information seeking and use outside of the medical encounter

    Open AccessRonica N Rooks, Ronica Rooks et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2012Citada por: 11Referencias: 33

  • Racial Differences in Self-Rated Health at Similar Levels of Physical Functioning

    Sarah Spencer, S M Spencer et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2009Citada por: 12Referencias: 4

    The results suggest greater health pessimism among Black elders and expand previous work by including objective functioning in multidimensional models to deconstruct race variations in the SRH of older adults

  • Racial Disparities in Health Care Access and Cardiovascular Disease Indicators in Black and White Older Adults in the Health ABC Study

    Open AccessRonica N Rooks, Ronica Rooks et al.ARTICLEJournal of Aging and Health2008Citada por: 2Referencias: 6

    Research on health care quality may contribute to our understanding of these disparities

  • Limited Literacy in Older People and Disparities in Health and Healthcare Access

    Open AccessRebecca L Sudore, Kala M Mehta et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American…2006

    OBJECTIVES: To determine the relationship between health literacy, demographics, and access to health care. DESIGN: Cross‐sectional study, Health, Aging and Body Composition data (1999/2000). SETTING: Memphis, Tennessee, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. PARTICIPANTS: Two thousand five hundred twelve black and white community‐dwelling older people who were well functioning at baseline (without functional difficulties or dementia). MEASUREMENTS: Parti…

  • Closing the Gap in Breast Cancer Screening among Older African-American and Caucasian Women

    Ronica N Rooks, Ronica Rooks et al.ARTICLEPhylon (19602002

  • The Association of Race and Socioeconomic Status With Cardiovascular Disease Indicators Among Older Adults in the Health, Aging, and Body Composition Study

    Ronica Rooks, R N Rooks et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2002Citada por: 12Referencias: 2

    Contrary to the age-as-leveler theory, being Black was strongly associated with CVD indicators, and accounting for SES did not reduce this association. Whether other SES measures, such as access to care, could explain the racial association remains to be explored