Brian Karl Finch
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 74458 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Brian Karl Finch |
| NOMBRES | Brian Karl |
| APELLIDO | Finch |
| FIRMA | FINCH B K |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Southern California |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1730-1574 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 54 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 1419 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 54 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1999 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 16 |
Moderating effects of educational inequality on education polygenic scores, attained education and dementia-risk relationships
While education is among the most consistent predictors of cognitive health and dementia risk, it is unclear whether this reflects the benefits of schooling itself or other factors such as underlying genetic predispositions or family-based inequality. Further, the benefits of education to cognitive health may be dependent on larger structures of inequality. Using data from the IGEMS Consortium of over 4,500 twins from seven cohorts in the USA, Sw…
Pathways between a polygenic index for education and years of completed schooling
Polygenic scores (PGS) are broadly misconstrued as reflecting direct causal genetic effects on their respective phenotypes. While this assumption might be accurate for some anthropometric traits like height, more complex traits such as educational attainment show very large indirect effects that stem from many sources. One unexplored source of confounding is the possibility of evocative gene-environment correlation (rGE). Using data from the Nati…
Patterns of Force
The increase in the prevalence of highly publicized police officer-involved homicides (OIHs) of Black and Hispanic community members has eroded trust in law enforcement. This study posits that these OIHs are a manifestation of the structural disparities resulting from racial/ethnic segregation in metropolitan areas. We use Poisson panel Generalized Linear Mixed-Effects Models to estimate this relationship with data from the Fatal Encounters proje…
Determining Gentrification’s Relationship to Birth Outcomes in Metropolitan California
There is inconsistent evidence as to whether gentrification, the increase of affluent residents into low-income neighborhoods, is detrimental to health. To date, there is no systematic evidence on how gentrification may matter for a range of birth outcomes across cities with varying characteristics. We utilize California's Birth Cohort File (2009-2012), Decennial Census data, and the American Community Survey (2008-2012) to investigate the relati…
Educational Influences on Late-Life Health
Both genetic propensity to education and attained education are (partly) independently associated with health in late life. These results lend further support for a causal education-health relationship but also raise the importance of genetic contributions and GE interplay
Assessing Data Completeness, Quality, and Representativeness of Justifiable Homicides in the FBI’s Supplementary Homicide Reports
Financial strain moderates genetic influences on self-rated health
sex, and financial strain moderators indicated significant financial strain moderation of genetic influences on self-rated health. Moderation results did not differ across sex or country. Genetic variance for SRH increased as financial strain increased, matching the predictions of the diathesis-stress and social comparison models for components of variance. Under these models, environmental improvements would be expected to reduce genetically bas…
The Impact of Residing in a Gang Territory on Adverse Birth Outcomes
Perceived Discrimination and Mental Distress Amid the Covid-19 Pandemic
The Great Recession and adverse birth outcomes
Although recessionary effects on population health are problematic and may have far-reaching effects, it appears that these effects may be largely universal, even given potential selective fertility favoring advantaged groups
The impact of perceived discrimination on depressive symptoms and the role of differentiated social support among immigrant populations in South Korea
Community-level interventions providing immigrants opportunities to increase social networking members from the same country as well as the native-born in a host country may be helpful resources for improving mental health among immigrants in South Korea. Also, raising awareness of racial discrimination among members in South Korea would be crucial
Adverse Childhood Experiences, Early and Nonmarital Fertility, and Women's Health at Midlife
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have powerful consequences for health and well-being throughout the life course. We draw on evidence that exposure to ACEs shapes developmental processes central to emotional regulation, impulsivity, and the formation of secure intimate ties to posit that ACEs shape the timing and context of childbearing, which in turn partially mediate the well-established effect of ACEs on women's later-life health. Analysis…
Cohort‐based income gradients in obesity among U.S. adults
OBJECTIVES: No studies have focused on socioeconomic disparities in obesity within and between cohorts. Our objectives were to examine income gradients in obesity between birth-cohorts (inter-cohort variations) and within each birth-cohort (intra-cohort variations) by gender and race/ethnicity. METHODS: Our sample includes 56,820 white and black adults from pooled, cross-sectional National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (1971-2012). We …
Attained SES as a moderator of adult cognitive performance
We examined whether attained socioeconomic status (SES) moderated genetic and environmental sources of individual differences in cognitive performance using pooled data from 9 adult twin studies. Prior work concerning SES moderation of cognitive performance has focused on rearing SES. The current adult sample of 12,196 individuals (aged 27-98 years) allowed for the examination of common sources of individual differences between attained SES and c…
Fitting Age-Period-Cohort Models Using the Intrinsic Estimator
We thank Demography’s editorial office for the opportunity to respond to te Grotenhuis et al.’s commentary regarding the methods used and the results presented in our earlier paper (Masters et al. 2014). In this response, we briefly reply to three general themes raised in the commentary: (1) the presentation and discussion of APC results, (2) the fitting of full APC models to data for which a simpler model holds, and (3) the variation in the esti…
Black-White Disparity in Disability Among U.S. Older Adults
We examined the role of aging on racial disparity in disability and found support for the racial crossover effect. Further, the racial disparity in disability will disappear should the observed pattern of declining cohort-based ADL and IADL disparities persist. Although education, income, and marital status are important sociodemographic contributors to cohort disparity trends, future studies should investigate individual behavioral health determ…
Long-Term Trends in Adult Mortality for U.S. Blacks and Whites
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 unclear. The distinction has important implications for understanding the socioeconomic, public health, lifestyle, and medical mechanisms responsible for this narrowing. We use data from 1959 to 2009 and age-period-cohort (APC) models to examine period- and cohort-based changes in adult morta…
Estimating Labor Trafficking among Unauthorized Migrant Workers in San Diego
Research on labor trafficking faces many methodological challenges, which make it difficult to provide reliable estimates of the problem. In this research, we applied respondent-driven sampling and unique access to migrant communities in San Diego County, California, to estimate the extent of trafficking violations in one of America's largest Spanish-speaking immigrant destinations. We found that 30 percent of undocumented migrant laborers were v…
Racial disparities in self-rated health
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The relationship between height and neighborhood context across racial/ethnic groups
Trends in US Older Adult Disability
Objectives. We elucidated how US late-life disability prevalence has changed over the past 3 decades. Methods. We examined activities of daily living (ADL) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) disability trends by using age–period–cohort (APC) models among older adults aged 70 years or older who responded to the National Health Interview Survey between 1982 and 2009. We fitted logistic regressions for ADL and IADL disabilities and f…
Does SES explain more of the black/white health gap than we thought? Revisiting our approach toward understanding racial disparities in health
Contextual Predictors of Cumulative Biological Risk
Objectives Segregation is considered to be a fundamental cause of race/ethnic disparities in health. However, very few studies have tested whether levels of segregation are related to health outcomes using multilevel data and appropriate methodologies. In this study, we investigate the relationships between two distinct dimensions of segregation and allostatic load to determine whether the experiences of individuals in segregated neighborhoods ar…
Neighborhood effects on health
Perceived Discrimination and Depression among Mexican-Origin Adults in California
We contend that perceived discrimination has an independent effect on depression outcomes among adults of Mexican origin. Using a sample of 3,012 Mexican-origin respondents in Fresno, California in 1995/96 (ages 18-59) we investigate the direct and moderating connections between perceived discrimination, acculturative stress, and mental health (CES-D). We also investigate the social patterning of perceived discrimination. While more highly accult…
Acculturation Stress, Social Support, and Self-Rated Health Among Latinos in California
The Role of Discrimination and Acculturative Stress in the Physical Health of Mexican-Origin Adults
The authors propose that perceived discrimination has an effect on self-reported health statuses, which are known to affect future morbidity and mortality. A sample of 3,012 Mexican-origin adults from the Mexican American Prevalence and Services Study in California is utilized to test this hypothesis. Dependent variables include a self-rating of health and a count of self-reported chronic conditions; the key independent variable is a scale of ove…
Neighborhood Disadvantage, Stress, and Drug Use among Adults
This paper explores the relationships among neighborhood disadvantage, stress, and the likelihood of drug use in a sample of adults (N = 1,101). Using the 1995 Detroit Area Study in conjunction with tract-level data from the 1990 census, we find a positive relationship between neighborhood disadvantage and drug use, and this relationship remains statistically significant net of controls for individual-level socioeconomic status. Neighborhood disa…
Collective efficacy and obesity
Non-residential neighborhood exposures suppress neighborhood effects on self-rated health
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The built environment and collective efficacy
Neighborhood Protective Effects on Depression in Latinos
Neighborhood social ecologies may have protective effects on depression in Latinos, after adjusting for demographic risk factors, such as nativity and length of stay in the US. This study examines the effects of neighborhood collective efficacy and linguistic isolation on depression in a heterogeneous urban Latino population from 1,468 adult respondents in Los Angeles County. We used multilevel models to analyze how major depression is associated…
Does place explain racial health disparities? Quantifying the contribution of residential context to the Black/white health gap in the United States
Acculturation and Acculturation Stress
Utilizing a cluster sampling design to maximize representativeness, we look at the health effects of acculturation and acculturation stressors among 1,001 adult migrant farmworkers in Fresno, California. Using self-ratings of mental and physical health as well as the CES-D depression scale, we find that the amount of time one spends in the United States, the level of English-language usage, as well as the intensity of acculturation stresses that …
Estimating Labor Trafficking among Unauthorized Migrant Workers in San Diego
Research on labor trafficking faces many methodological challenges, which make it difficult to provide reliable estimates of the problem. In this research, we applied respondent-driven sampling and unique access to migrant communities in San Diego County, California, to estimate the extent of trafficking violations in one of America's largest Spanish-speaking immigrant destinations. We found that 30 percent of undocumented migrant laborers were v…
Neighbourhood socioeconomic status and biological ‘wear and tear’ in a nationally representative sample of US adults
OBJECTIVE: To assess whether neighbourhood socioeconomic status (NSES) is independently associated with disparities in biological 'wear and tear' measured by allostatic load in a nationally representative sample of US adults. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. SETTING: Population-based US survey, the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III), merged with US census data describing respondents' neighbourhoods. PARTICIPANTS: 13…
Racial disparities in self-rated health
Long-Term Trends in Adult Mortality for U.S. Blacks and Whites
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 unclear. The distinction has important implications for understanding the socioeconomic, public health, lifestyle, and medical mechanisms responsible for this narrowing. We use data from 1959 to 2009 and age-period-cohort (APC) models to examine period- and cohort-based changes in adult morta…
Does SES explain more of the black/white health gap than we thought? Revisiting our approach toward understanding racial disparities in health
Neighborhood effects on health
Toward a Population Health Model of Segmented Assimilation
The authors adapt the segmented assimilation theory to a model of population health, which posits that assimilation is actually harmful to migrants' health. The authors also specify models of individual and contextual factors to indirectly test the theory of segmented assimilation- a theory that posits interactions between individual and residential circumstances. Using Year 2000 vital statistics data merged with 2000 U.S. census data from Los An…
Could “Acculturation” Effects be Explained by Latent Health Disadvantages among Mexican Immigrants
This paper tests portions of a new theory of immigrant health by focusing exclusively on latent biomarkers of future health risks. Using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey III, 1988–1994 – we uncover the typically observed immigrant health advantage among recent immigrants that diminishes among long-term immigrants. In addition, we observe worse health among U.S.-born Mexican Americans relative to non-Hispanic Whites. …
Adverse Childhood Experiences, Early and Nonmarital Fertility, and Women's Health at Midlife
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have powerful consequences for health and well-being throughout the life course. We draw on evidence that exposure to ACEs shapes developmental processes central to emotional regulation, impulsivity, and the formation of secure intimate ties to posit that ACEs shape the timing and context of childbearing, which in turn partially mediate the well-established effect of ACEs on women's later-life health. Analysis…
Trends in US Older Adult Disability
Objectives. We elucidated how US late-life disability prevalence has changed over the past 3 decades. Methods. We examined activities of daily living (ADL) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) disability trends by using age–period–cohort (APC) models among older adults aged 70 years or older who responded to the National Health Interview Survey between 1982 and 2009. We fitted logistic regressions for ADL and IADL disabilities and f…
Religious involvement and depressive symptoms among Mexican‐origin adults in California
A burgeoning literature has documented generally salutary relationships between various aspects of religious involvement and mental health outcomes, including depressive symptoms. However, few of these studies have focused on Latinos (Hispanics), who now constitute the largest ethnic minority population in the United States. Our work addresses this gap in the literature. A number of hypotheses concerning main and contingent effects of religious a…
Nativity and Self-Assessed Health among Pre-Retirement Age Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites
Economic, social and familial resources are known to influence subjective health assessments. We examine the salience of nativity in determining how these resources influence self-assessed health using a large, nationwide sample of Hispanic and non-Hispanic white adults. The results indicate that while education, accumulated assets and marital status benefit the physical and emotional health of the native and foreign-born, family resources and in…
Contextual Effects of Perinatal Substance Exposure among Black and White Women in California
This secondary analysis assessed the impact of neighborhood characteristics on individual substance exposures among pregnant women in California. Zip code-level census data were attached to data from the 1992 California Perinatal Substance Exposure Study to serve as a proxy for neighborhood characteristics. The central hypothesis of this study suggests that there are differences in substance exposure rates among women living in neighborhoods with…
Race/ethnic differences in respiratory problems among a nationally-representative cohort of young children in the United States
Contextual Effects of Perinatal Substance Exposure among Black and White Women in California
This secondary analysis assessed the impact of neighborhood characteristics on individual substance exposures among pregnant women in California. Zip code-level census data were attached to data from the 1992 California Perinatal Substance Exposure Study to serve as a proxy for neighborhood characteristics. The central hypothesis of this study suggests that there are differences in substance exposure rates among women living in neighborhoods with…
Racial/ethnic disparities in infant mortality
Using the National Maternal and Infant Health Survey 1988 (NMIHS), a nationally representative sample of mothers, we investigate the role of behavioral factors in explaining racial/ethnic disparities in infant mortality. In particular, we focus on the following variables: weight gain during pregnancy, prenatal care utilization, exercise, vitamin use, and substance use during pregnancy. These analyses are conducted by modeling both time of death (…
Perceived Discrimination and Depression among Mexican-Origin Adults in California
We contend that perceived discrimination has an independent effect on depression outcomes among adults of Mexican origin. Using a sample of 3,012 Mexican-origin respondents in Fresno, California in 1995/96 (ages 18-59) we investigate the direct and moderating connections between perceived discrimination, acculturative stress, and mental health (CES-D). We also investigate the social patterning of perceived discrimination. While more highly accult…
Nativity and Self-Assessed Health among Pre-Retirement Age Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites
Economic, social and familial resources are known to influence subjective health assessments. We examine the salience of nativity in determining how these resources influence self-assessed health using a large, nationwide sample of Hispanic and non-Hispanic white adults. The results indicate that while education, accumulated assets and marital status benefit the physical and emotional health of the native and foreign-born, family resources and in…
Race/ethnic differences in respiratory problems among a nationally-representative cohort of young children in the United States
Nation of Origin, Gender, and Neighborhood Differences in Past-Year Substance Use among Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites
This analysis of the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA) focuses on correlates of substance use among Hispanic groups. Using 1994-B and 1996 NHSDA surveys (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services [USDHHS], 1996, 1998), these analyses use sampling areas to control for intracluster correlation and its subsequent effect on empirical conclusions. Models are specified for alcohol, cigarettes, marijuana, cocaine, and any illicit drug, …
The Role of Discrimination and Acculturative Stress in the Physical Health of Mexican-Origin Adults
The authors propose that perceived discrimination has an effect on self-reported health statuses, which are known to affect future morbidity and mortality. A sample of 3,012 Mexican-origin adults from the Mexican American Prevalence and Services Study in California is utilized to test this hypothesis. Dependent variables include a self-rating of health and a count of self-reported chronic conditions; the key independent variable is a scale of ove…
Substance use during pregnancy in the state of California, USA
Neighborhood Disadvantage, Stress, and Drug Use among Adults
This paper explores the relationships among neighborhood disadvantage, stress, and the likelihood of drug use in a sample of adults (N = 1,101). Using the 1995 Detroit Area Study in conjunction with tract-level data from the 1990 census, we find a positive relationship between neighborhood disadvantage and drug use, and this relationship remains statistically significant net of controls for individual-level socioeconomic status. Neighborhood disa…
Validity of Self-rated Health among Latino(a)s
The authors investigated whether self-rated health (SRH) had differential mortality risks for Latino(a) adults of various acculturation statuses living in the United States. They used cumulative National Health Interview Survey data from 1989 to 1994 (n = 37,713) linked with the National Health Interview Survey Multiple Cause of Death data files (1,364 deaths) that match records from the National Death Index through 1997. The authors specified su…
Employment Frustration and Alcohol Abuse/Dependence Among Labor Migrants in California
Early Origins of the Gradient
Although relationships between social conditions and health have been documented for centuries, the past few decades have witnessed the emergence of socioeconomic gradients in health and mortality in most developed countries. These gradients indicate that health improves, although decreasingly so, at higher levels of socioeconomic status. To minimize problems with reverse causality, I tested competing hypotheses for observed socioeconomic gradien…
Acculturation Stress, Social Support, and Self-Rated Health Among Latinos in California
Acculturation and Acculturation Stress
Utilizing a cluster sampling design to maximize representativeness, we look at the health effects of acculturation and acculturation stressors among 1,001 adult migrant farmworkers in Fresno, California. Using self-ratings of mental and physical health as well as the CES-D depression scale, we find that the amount of time one spends in the United States, the level of English-language usage, as well as the intensity of acculturation stresses that …
Los Años de la Crisis
You Are Where You Shop
Collective efficacy and obesity
Neighborhood context and ethnicity differences in body mass index
The built environment and collective efficacy
Community Characteristics Associated with HIV Risk among Injection Drug Users in the San Francisco Bay Area
Non-residential neighborhood exposures suppress neighborhood effects on self-rated health
Toward a Population Health Model of Segmented Assimilation
The authors adapt the segmented assimilation theory to a model of population health, which posits that assimilation is actually harmful to migrants' health. The authors also specify models of individual and contextual factors to indirectly test the theory of segmented assimilation- a theory that posits interactions between individual and residential circumstances. Using Year 2000 vital statistics data merged with 2000 U.S. census data from Los An…
Neighborhood socioeconomic status and fruit and vegetable intake among whites, blacks, and Mexican Americans in the United States
Does place explain racial health disparities? Quantifying the contribution of residential context to the Black/white health gap in the United States
Could “Acculturation” Effects be Explained by Latent Health Disadvantages among Mexican Immigrants
This paper tests portions of a new theory of immigrant health by focusing exclusively on latent biomarkers of future health risks. Using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey III, 1988–1994 – we uncover the typically observed immigrant health advantage among recent immigrants that diminishes among long-term immigrants. In addition, we observe worse health among U.S.-born Mexican Americans relative to non-Hispanic Whites. …
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