Katrina M Walsemann
Biographic Data
| ID | 104452 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katrina M Walsemann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katrina M |
| FAMILY NAME | Walsemann |
| SIGNATURE | WALSEMANN K M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Carolina |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1358-6878 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 58 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 613 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 58 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Living in Historically Redlined Neighborhoods and the Cognitive Function of Black and White Adults
ObjectivesWe determined if living in historically redlined neighborhoods was associated with level and change in cognitive functioning and if this association differed for Black and White older adults.MethodsWe linked the Health and Retirement Study 1998-2018 data to redlining scores from the Historic Redlining Indicator data. Our sample included adults aged 50 years and older (24,230 respondents, 129,618 person-period observations). Using three-…
Cohort Differences in Perceived Discrimination Trajectories among Aging Black Americans
Objectives This study examines how later-life perceptions of everyday discrimination vary as a function of cohort-level differences in exposure to 3 distinct racialized social systems (RSSs) across historical time (i.e., whether individuals experienced childhood and early adolescence during the Pre-Brown v Board Era, Protest Era, or Colorblind Era). Methods We used the Health and Retirement Study to estimate age-specific trajectories in 5-item Ev…
Apoe genotype and cognitive decline: Educational context as a moderator of genetic risk
Objectives The apolipoprotein E (APOE) ε4 allele is linked to increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease and cognitive decline. While educational attainment appears to mitigate this risk, it is not a direct measure of the early-life environment. This study examined whether childhood exposure to well- versus poorly resourced educational contexts modified the association between APOE ε4 and cognitive decline, independent of parent and respondent educati…
Underestimating the Relationship: Unpacking Both Socioeconomic Resources and Cognitive Function and Decline in Midlife to Later Life
Although there is robust evidence that socioeconomic position influences later-life cognitive function, two issues limit knowledge regarding the nature and magnitude of these relationships and potential policy interventions. First, most social science research tends to treat cognition as a unitary concept despite evidence that cognitive outcomes are not interchangeable. Second, most biomedical research focuses exclusively on education, with limit…
They don't have to make room for me because this is their space: Black College Students' Narratives of Racism, Whiteness, and Mental Health
Black students who attend PWIs are tasked with navigating campus environments where Whiteness - i.e., social norms, policies, and practices that uphold White supremacy - has an enduring and pervasive presence. While a growing body of research has become attuned to how Whiteness shapes higher education, less work has centered the experiential knowledge of Black students and their health outcomes. This study uses select tenets from critical race th…
How long-term changes in neighborhood and school racial composition shape children's behavior problems
Interpersonal Discrimination and Relationship Quality among Married Mid-Life and Older Black Adults
Theories of minority stress contagion suggest that the consequences of racial discrimination may extend beyond the individual to impact close others. We empirically test direct and spillover associations between racialized stress and marital support and strain among mid-life and older Black spouses. We use actor-partner interdependence models to analyze dyadic data from 280 different-sex, married Black couples from the 2014 and 2016 Health and Re…
Whose Knowledge Heals? Transforming Teaching in the Struggle for Health Equity
Racial health inequities persist despite many attempts to correct them. Inadequate comprehension of racism obscures the ordinariness of racism in public health institutions. In addition to applying critical race theory (CRT) to the research and practice of public health, we argue that the struggle for health equity must also apply CRT toward the teaching of public health students. Adhering to conventional approaches in academic public health with…
Race, gender, and cohort differences in the educational experiences of Black and White Americans
State-level desegregation in the U.S. South and mid-life cognitive function among Black and White adults
Regional variation in U.S dementia trends from 2000-2012
Although recent studies report a decline in dementia prevalence among U.S. older adults, national trends may mask subnational variation, particularly given large health and social inequalities linked to geography. To address this gap, we determined if there was subnational variation in reported national dementia trends and if region-specific trends were explained by sociodemographic and health characteristics. Data come from the 2000 (n = 10,447)…
Education in the Jim Crow South and Black-White inequities in allostatic load among older adults
In the U.S., Black adults consistently have higher allostatic load - an indicator of physiological dysregulation - than White adults. Education is considered a likely mechanism given racial differences in attainment, but evidence is mixed. This may be due, in part, to data limitations that have made it difficult for scholars to account for the structurally rooted systemic racism that shaped the U.S. education system and led to large racial inequi…
Black-White variation in the relationship between early educational experiences and trajectories of cognitive function among US-born older adults
Race Inequity in School Attendance Across the Jim Crow South and Its Implications for Black–White Disparities in Trajectories of Cognitive Function Among Older Adults
Our study highlights the importance of using a more refined measure of schooling for understanding the education-cognitive health relationship
Religious Involvement and Cognitive Functioning at the Intersection of Race–Ethnicity and Gender Among Midlife and Older Adults
Results suggest the association between religious involvement and cognitive functioning is varied and complex, and largely dependent on important social identities. The findings have important implications for investigating health-protective factors, like religious involvement, using an intersectional perspective
Undocumented Older Latino Immigrants in the United States: Population Projections and Share of Older Undocumented Latinos by Health Insurance Coverage and Chronic Health Conditions, 2018–2038
Without access to health care, older undocumented immigrants may experience delayed care and more severe morbidity. Our projections highlight the need to develop and enact policies that can address impending health access concerns for an increasingly older undocumented Latino population
A spatial analysis of county-level education context and population health and wellbeing
Stark inequalities in health and wellbeing exist across US counties. Schools are a key feature of counties and residents often make decisions about where to live based on the quality of the local schools. How counties invest in their local schools may reflect one way that health and wellbeing become embedded in geographic places. We constructed four indicators of county-level education context using administrative data from all US public schools …
Race/ethnic differences in educational gradients in sleep duration and quality among U.S. adults
At the population level, those with more education tend to report better sleep, mirroring the education gradient found in other health outcomes. But research has shown that higher educational attainment does not always confer the same health benefits for Non-Hispanic Black (Black) and Hispanic adults as it does for Non-Hispanic White (White) adults. It is therefore possible that the educational gradient in sleep varies across racial/ethnic groups…
Increasing men’s involvement in responsible parenthood: National-level policy efforts in Croatia, India, and Mexico
Since the ratification of the International Conference on Population and Development Programme of Action (ICPD PoA), the importance of promoting men’s participation in childcare has been recognized as an international priority. This study documents national policy efforts undertaken during the ICPD PoA timeframe to increase men’s participation in childcare in Croatia, India, and Mexico. Results of our policy analysis suggest that although between…
The Other Student Debt Crisis: How Borrowing to Pay for a Child’s College Education Relates to Parents’ Mental Health at Midlife
Our findings indicate that the student debt crisis may also have mental health implications for aging parents, particularly for fathers
Heterogeneity in Educational Pathways and the Health Behavior of U.S. Young Adults
Parental Involvement: Rhetoric of Inclusion in an Environment of Exclusion
This article explores how parents and school personnel perceived and experienced parental involvement at a school serving a low-income mainly black population. The first author recorded detailed field notes (n=70) and conducted in-depth interviews with parents (n=20) and school personnel (n=20) over a three-year period. Despite rhetoric of inclusion, the school's policies and practices restricted parents to predetermined and acceptable roles of p…
Wired: Parent–child relationship quality and recreational media use in a diverse sample of US children and adolescents
Media use among US children is high and access to new media outlets continues to grow, which has important implications for how children spend their time. This study builds upon research on other lifestyle behaviors to explore the impact of a global rating of parent–child relationship quality on recreational media use (RMU). Data from a nationally representative sample of US children and adolescents aged 8–18 years (n = 1727) were analyzed. Multi…
Sexual Orientation Concordance And (Un)Happiness About Births
To help ensure optimal reproductive health care for all women, research should explore whether providers take into account all dimensions of individuals' sexual orientation
Are the poverty histories of neighbourhoods associated with psychosocial well-being among a representative sample of California mothers? An observational study
BACKGROUND: We examine the association between the poverty histories of neighbourhoods and three indicators of psychosocial well-being-depressive symptoms, sense of control and number of stressors-in an observational study of mothers of young children in California. We also consider if length of residence in a neighbourhood moderates the association between neighbourhood poverty history and psychosocial well-being. METHODS: Data come from the Geo…
A Life Course Perspective on How Racism May Be Related to Health Inequities
Recent studies show that racism may influence health inequities. As individuals grow from infancy into old age, they encounter social institutions that may create new exposures to racial bias. Yet, few studies have considered this idea fully. We suggest a framework that shows how racism and health inequities may be viewed from a life course perspective. It applies the ideas of age-patterned exposures, sensitive periods, linked lives, latency peri…
Does health predict the reporting of racial discrimination or do reports of discrimination predict health? Findings from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth
School racial composition and race/ethnic differences in early adulthood health
The intersection of school racial composition and student race/ethnicity on adolescent depressive and somatic symptoms
Ethnic Differences in Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms: Disadvantage in Family Background, High School Experiences, and Adult Characteristics
Although research investigating ethnic differences in mental health has increased in recent years, we know relatively little about how mental health trajectories vary across ethnic groups. Do these differences occur at certain ages but not others? We investigate ethnic variation in trajectories of depressive symptoms, and we examine the extent to which disadvantages in family background, high school experiences, and adult characteristics explain …
Sick of our loans: Student borrowing and the mental health of young adults in the United States
Racism and Social Capital: The Implications for Social and Physical Well‐Being
Racism can be manifest at the cultural, institutional and individual levels, and can exert effects at the intrapersonal level if targeted individuals internalize attitudes toward their own racial/ethnic groups. The general aim of this article is to examine the ways in which all levels of racism undermine the development of peer relations, one component of social capital; and consequently affect the health and well‐being of targeted individuals. T…
Life course SES and cardiovascular risk: Heterogeneity across race/ethnicity and gender
Educational Attainment in the Context of Social Inequality: New Directions for Research on Education and Health
A large literature documents a strong and consistent educational gradient in health: more-educated persons enjoy lower rates of morbidity and mortality. This literature has generally focused on the amount of schooling one completes but has yet to comprehensively examine other facets of education, such as educational quality or school segregation. More importantly, the literature has generally conceptualized education at the level of individual pe…
The Association of Sexual Orientation Measures With Young Adults’ Health-Related Outcomes
Objectives. We examined associations among 3 dimensions of sexual orientation (identity, behavior, and attraction) and key health-related indicators commonly studied among sexual minority populations: depressive symptoms, perceived stress, smoking, binge drinking, and victimization. Methods. We analyzed data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, Wave IV (2007–2008) when respondents were aged 24 to 32 years (n = 14 412). We us…
English Proficiency and Language Preference: Testing the Equivalence of Two Measures
Objectives. We examined the association of language proficiency vs language preference with self-rated health among Asian American immigrants. We also examined whether modeling preference or proficiency as continuous or categorical variables changed our inferences. Methods. Data came from the 2002–2003 National Latino and Asian American Study (n = 1639). We focused on participants' proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing English and on thei…
Integrated Schools, Segregated Curriculum: Effects of Within-School Segregation on Adolescent Health Behaviors and Educational Aspirations
Our results provide evidence that within-school segregation may influence both students' aspirations and their behaviors
Adolescent Loneliness and Health in Early Adulthood
The health consequence of loneliness in the early life course is an understudied topic in the sociological literature. Using data from Waves 1-3 of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we examine pre-disease pathways in the relationship between adolescent loneliness and early adult health. Our results indicate that loneliness during adolescence is associated with diagnosed depression, poorer adult self-rated health, and metabolic…
Effect of School Racial Composition on Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms from Adolescence Through Early Adulthood
Citizenship as Privilege and Social Identity: Implications for Psychological Distress
Citizenship is both a system of privilege and a source of social identity. This study examines whether there are disparities in psychological distress between citizens and noncitizens, and whether these disparities may be explained by markers of social disadvantage (e.g., poverty, discrimination) or perceptions of success in the United States (i.e., subjective social status). We analyze data from the Asian subsample ( n = 2,095) of the National L…
Race Inequity in School Attendance Across the Jim Crow South and Its Implications for Black–White Disparities in Trajectories of Cognitive Function Among Older Adults
Our study highlights the importance of using a more refined measure of schooling for understanding the education-cognitive health relationship
State-level desegregation in the U.S. South and mid-life cognitive function among Black and White adults
Student loans and racial disparities in self-reported sleep duration: Evidence from a nationally representative sample of US young adults
BACKGROUND: Student loans are the second largest source of personal debt in the USA and may represent an important source of financial strain for many young adults. Little attention has been paid to whether debt is associated with sleep duration, an important health-promoting behaviour. We determine if student loans are associated with sleep duration. Since black young adults are more likely to have student debt and sleep less, we also consider w…
Ethnic Discrimination and Smoking-Related Outcomes among Former and Current Arab Male Smokers in Israel: The Buffering Effects of Social Support
Undocumented Older Latino Immigrants in the United States: Population Projections and Share of Older Undocumented Latinos by Health Insurance Coverage and Chronic Health Conditions, 2018–2038
Without access to health care, older undocumented immigrants may experience delayed care and more severe morbidity. Our projections highlight the need to develop and enact policies that can address impending health access concerns for an increasingly older undocumented Latino population
Religious Involvement and Cognitive Functioning at the Intersection of Race–Ethnicity and Gender Among Midlife and Older Adults
Results suggest the association between religious involvement and cognitive functioning is varied and complex, and largely dependent on important social identities. The findings have important implications for investigating health-protective factors, like religious involvement, using an intersectional perspective
The Long Arm of Adolescent Health Among Men and Women: Does Attained Status Explain Its Association with Mid-Adulthood Health
Educational Attainment by Life Course Sexual Attraction: Prevalence and Correlates in a Nationally Representative Sample of Young Adults
Invisible and at Risk: STDs Among Young Adult Sexual Minority Women in the United States
Sexual identity, gender of sex partners and sexual behaviors should be taken into account in assessments of women's STD risk
Body mass index trajectories from adolescence to midlife: Differential effects of parental and respondent education by race/ethnicity and gender
Our results suggest that by simultaneously considering multiple sources of stratification, we can more fully understand how the unequal distribution of advantages or disadvantages across social groups affects BMI across the life course
Accumulating Disadvantage Over the Life Course: Evidence From a Longitudinal Study Investigating the Relationship Between Educational Advantage in Youth and Health in Middle Age
Recent studies suggest the importance of examining cumulative risk or advantage as potential predictors of health over the life course. Researchers investigating the cumulative health effects of education, however, have mainly conceptualized education in years or degrees, often disregarding educational quality and access to educational opportunities that may place individuals on divergent academic trajectories. We investigate whether educational …
Does health predict the reporting of racial discrimination or do reports of discrimination predict health? Findings from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth
Ethnic Differences in Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms: Disadvantage in Family Background, High School Experiences, and Adult Characteristics
Although research investigating ethnic differences in mental health has increased in recent years, we know relatively little about how mental health trajectories vary across ethnic groups. Do these differences occur at certain ages but not others? We investigate ethnic variation in trajectories of depressive symptoms, and we examine the extent to which disadvantages in family background, high school experiences, and adult characteristics explain …
Gee Et Al. Respond
Many studies use self-reported language measures.1–3 We cautioned against conflating English proficiency and language preference.4 We thank Ayers for confirming that English proficiency is related to self-rated health, regardless of whether proficiency is measured via self-report or interviewer assessment. Ayers’ main point is that objective indicators of proficiency are more accurate than self-report indicators,2 a point we made in our paper.4(p…
English Proficiency and Language Preference: Testing the Equivalence of Two Measures
Objectives. We examined the association of language proficiency vs language preference with self-rated health among Asian American immigrants. We also examined whether modeling preference or proficiency as continuous or categorical variables changed our inferences. Methods. Data came from the 2002–2003 National Latino and Asian American Study (n = 1639). We focused on participants' proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing English and on thei…
Integrated Schools, Segregated Curriculum: Effects of Within-School Segregation on Adolescent Health Behaviors and Educational Aspirations
Our results provide evidence that within-school segregation may influence both students' aspirations and their behaviors
Body mass index trajectories from adolescence to midlife: Differential effects of parental and respondent education by race/ethnicity and gender
Our results suggest that by simultaneously considering multiple sources of stratification, we can more fully understand how the unequal distribution of advantages or disadvantages across social groups affects BMI across the life course
School racial composition and race/ethnic differences in early adulthood health
The intersection of school racial composition and student race/ethnicity on adolescent depressive and somatic symptoms
Effect of School Racial Composition on Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms from Adolescence Through Early Adulthood
Program planners' perspectives of promotora roles, recruitment, and selection
To strengthen health programs employing the promotora delivery model, job descriptions should delineate role expectations and boundaries and better guide promotora evaluations. We suggest including additional components such as information on funding sources, program type and delivery, and sustainability outcomes to enhance the ROLES conceptual model. The expanded model can be used to guide program planners in the planning, implementing, and eval…
The Association of Sexual Orientation Measures With Young Adults’ Health-Related Outcomes
Objectives. We examined associations among 3 dimensions of sexual orientation (identity, behavior, and attraction) and key health-related indicators commonly studied among sexual minority populations: depressive symptoms, perceived stress, smoking, binge drinking, and victimization. Methods. We analyzed data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, Wave IV (2007–2008) when respondents were aged 24 to 32 years (n = 14 412). We us…
Effects of Timing and Level of Degree Attained on Depressive Symptoms and Self-Rated Health at Midlife
Objectives. We examined whether attaining a higher educational degree after 25 years of age was associated with fewer depressive symptoms and better self-rated health at midlife than was not attaining a higher educational degree. Methods. We analyzed data from National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, restricting our sample to respondents who had not attained a bachelor's degree by 25 years of age (n = 7179). We stratified all regression models by h…
Racism and Social Capital: The Implications for Social and Physical Well‐Being
Racism can be manifest at the cultural, institutional and individual levels, and can exert effects at the intrapersonal level if targeted individuals internalize attitudes toward their own racial/ethnic groups. The general aim of this article is to examine the ways in which all levels of racism undermine the development of peer relations, one component of social capital; and consequently affect the health and well‐being of targeted individuals. T…
A Life Course Perspective on How Racism May Be Related to Health Inequities
Recent studies show that racism may influence health inequities. As individuals grow from infancy into old age, they encounter social institutions that may create new exposures to racial bias. Yet, few studies have considered this idea fully. We suggest a framework that shows how racism and health inequities may be viewed from a life course perspective. It applies the ideas of age-patterned exposures, sensitive periods, linked lives, latency peri…
Ethnic Disparities in Disability Among Middle-Aged and Older Israeli Adults: The Role of Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Traumatic Life Events
Identifying factors driving ethnic health disparities in Israel is imperative if we hope to achieve health equity
Invisible and at Risk: STDs Among Young Adult Sexual Minority Women in the United States
Sexual identity, gender of sex partners and sexual behaviors should be taken into account in assessments of women's STD risk
Educational Attainment in the Context of Social Inequality: New Directions for Research on Education and Health
A large literature documents a strong and consistent educational gradient in health: more-educated persons enjoy lower rates of morbidity and mortality. This literature has generally focused on the amount of schooling one completes but has yet to comprehensively examine other facets of education, such as educational quality or school segregation. More importantly, the literature has generally conceptualized education at the level of individual pe…
Adolescent Loneliness and Health in Early Adulthood
The health consequence of loneliness in the early life course is an understudied topic in the sociological literature. Using data from Waves 1-3 of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we examine pre-disease pathways in the relationship between adolescent loneliness and early adult health. Our results indicate that loneliness during adolescence is associated with diagnosed depression, poorer adult self-rated health, and metabolic…
Impact of the 'Giving Cigarettes is Giving Harm' campaign on knowledge and attitudes of Chinese smokers
These findings suggest that the GCGH campaign increased knowledge of smoking harms, which could promote downstream cessation. This study provides evidence to support future campaign development to effectively fight the tobacco epidemic in China
Educational Attainment by Life Course Sexual Attraction: Prevalence and Correlates in a Nationally Representative Sample of Young Adults
The Long Arm of Adolescent Health Among Men and Women: Does Attained Status Explain Its Association with Mid-Adulthood Health
Sexual Orientation and Risk of Pregnancy Among New York City High-School Students
Objectives. We examined associations between sexual orientation and pregnancy risk among sexually experienced New York City high-school students. Methods. We analyzed data from 2005, 2007, and 2009 New York City Youth Risk Behavior Surveys. We excluded students who had never engaged in sexual intercourse, only had same-gender sexual partners, or had missing data on variables of interest, resulting in a final sample of 4892 female and 4811 male st…
Sick of our loans: Student borrowing and the mental health of young adults in the United States
Using an environmental justice approach to examine the relationships between park availability and quality indicators, neighborhood disadvantage, and racial/ethnic composition
Psychology (50 works) · Medicine (46 works) · Sociology (39 works) · Demography (34 works) · Gerontology (31 works) · Demography (30 works) · Developmental psychology (24 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (24 works) · Population (24 works) · Psychiatry (20 works)