Frederick J Zimmerman

Biographic Data

ID1724451
NAMEFrederick J Zimmerman
GIVEN NAMESFrederick J
FAMILY NAMEZimmerman
SIGNATUREZIMMERMAN F J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Washington
ORCID0000-0002-4163-9893
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS54
TOTAL CITATIONS309
AUTHOR COUNT54
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX9

  • Pursuing healthy homeownership: An evaluation of the neighborhood health trajectories of shared equity homeowners

    Open AccessGeoffrey M Gusoff, Alex Ramiller et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Households entering shared equity homeownership avoid the sacrifices in neighborhood walkability and food access that are associated with moving into traditional homeownership, but they experience increased neighborhood socio-economic vulnerability. While understanding the net impact of these factors on individual and household health requires further study, these results can inform the siting and design of shared equity homeownership units to ma…

  • Trends and structural factors affecting health equity in the United States at the local level, 1990–2019

    Open AccessNathaniel Anderson, Frederick J ZimmermanARTICLESSM - Population Health2024

    Health equity is fundamental to improving the health of populations, but in recent decades progress towards this goal has been mixed. To better support this mission, a deeper understanding of the local heterogeneity within population-level health equity is vital. This analysis presents trends in average health and health equity in the United States at the local level from 1990 to 2019 using three different health outcomes: mortality, self-reporte…

  • Association of neighborhood gentrification and residential moves with hypertension and diabetes control in Los Angeles County, 2014–2019: A retrospective cohort study

    Open AccessKatherine L Chen, Frederick J Zimmerman et al.ARTICLEHealth & Place2023Cited by: 1References: 13

    Gentrification may support-or at least not harm-cardiometabolic health for some residents. City leaders and health systems could partner with impacted communities to ensure that neighborhood development meets the goals and health needs of all residents and does not exacerbate health disparities

  • The Child and Adolescent Thriving Index 1.0: Developing a Measure of the Outcome Indicators of Well-Being for Population Health Assessment

    Open AccessNathaniel Anderson, Anna J Markowitz et al.ARTICLEChild Indicators Research2022References: 13

    The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12187-022-09962-0

  • A symphony within: Frequent participation in performing arts predicts higher positive mental health in young adults

    Open AccessEryn Piper Block, Michael D Wong et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2022Cited by: 2References: 37

  • Trends in health equity in mortality in the United States, 1969–2019

    Open AccessNathaniel Anderson, Frederick J ZimmermanARTICLESSM - Population Health2021

    The US is failing to advance health equity, especially for adults. Keeping policy-makers accountable to a summary measure of health equity may help coordinate efforts at improving population health

  • Firearm laws and the network of firearm movement among US states

    Open AccessTakada, Kristen Choi et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    Restrictive state-level firearm policies are associated with less movement of firearms to other states, but with more movement of firearms from outside states. The effectiveness of state-level firearm-restricting laws is complicated by a network of interstate firearm movement

  • Trends in Health Equity Among Children in the United States, 1997–2018

    Open AccessNathaniel Anderson, Frederick J ZimmermanARTICLEMaternal and Child Health Journal2021

    Progress on health equity requires accountability to an objective metric. This analysis suggests some improvement over the past two decades, although these gains are under threat from potential decreases in government spending on programs affecting children and the COVID-19 pandemic

  • Less Health Care, More Health: The Inverse U of Medical Spending and Health in the United States

    Frederick J ZimmermanARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2020Cited by: 1References: 1

    Less Health Care, More Health: The Inverse U of Medical Spending and Health in the United States Frederick J. Zimmerman PhD Affiliation Frederick J. Zimmerman is with the Center for Health Advancement and the Department of Health Policy and Management, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles.CopyRightCorrespondence should be sent to Frederick J. Zimmerman, Fielding School of Public Health, Box 951772, UCLA, Los Ang…

  • Examining the association of changes in minimum wage with health across race/ethnicity and gender in the United States

    Open AccessKimberly Narain, Frederick J ZimmermanARTICLEBMC Public Health2019

    While there is enthusiasm for minimum wage increases in the public health community, such increases may have to be paired with deliberate strategies to protect workers that might be vulnerable to economic dislocation. Such strategies may include more robust unemployment insurance or increased access to job training for displaced workers

  • Medicaid work requirements: A really bad idea for increasing employment

    Kimberly Narain, Kimberly Danae Cauley Narain et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2019References: 2

    In January of 2018 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that it would be granting waivers to states to impose either work or community engagement requirements on non-disabled, working-age Medicaid beneficiaries, based on the idea that such requirements would ‘promote better mental, physical, and emotional health’ and help families ‘rise out of poverty and attain independence'.1 To date, four states have approved waivers …

  • The opportunity cost of pharmaceutical price increases: Improving health by investing in education

    Open AccessJonathan E Fielding, Frederick J Zimmerman et al.ARTICLECritical Public Health2018

    A federal law prohibits the US Government from negotiating pharmaceutical prices. This law comes with an opportunity cost: resources spent on unnecessarily highly priced drugs cannot be spent on other social goals. To calculate the opportunity cost of this spending, this analysis first identified a proxy for unnecessarily high pharmaceutical spending. We then estimated the value of the outcomes which this money would produce if invested in an alt…

  • Early Child Development, Residential Crowding, and Commute Time in 8 US States, 2010–2017

    Eryn Piper Block, Frederick J Zimmerman et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2018Cited by: 3References: 29

    Objectives. To examine relationships of residential crowding and commute time with early child development. Methods. We used the Early Development Instrument (EDI), a teacher-reported, population-health measure of child development. The sample included child-level observations spanning 8 US states from 2010 to 2017 (n = 185 012), aggregated to the census tract (n= 2793), stratified by percentage of households in poverty. To test the association o…

  • Advancing Health Equity: Facilitating Action on the Social Determinants of Health Among Public Health Departments

    Kimberly Narain, Frederick J Zimmerman et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2018References: 5

    "Advancing Health Equity: Facilitating Action on the Social Determinants of Health Among Public Health Departments." , 108(6), pp. 737–738

  • Public Health Autonomy: A Critical Reappraisal

    Open AccessFrederick J ZimmermanARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report2017

    The ethical principle of autonomy is among the most fundamental in ethics, and it is particularly salient for those in public health, who must constantly balance the desire to improve health outcomes by changing behavior with respect for individual freedom. Although there are some areas in which there is a genuine tension between public health and autonomy—childhood vaccine mandates, for example—there are many more areas where not only is there n…

  • Public health and the economy could be served by reallocating medical expenditures to social programs

    Open AccessLinda Tran, Frederick J Zimmerman et al.ARTICLESSM - Population Health2017

    As much as 30% of US health care spending in the United States does not improve individual or population health. To a large extent this excess spending results from prices that are too high and from administrative waste. In the public sector, and particularly at the state level, where budget constraints are severe and reluctance to raise taxes high, this spending crowds out social, educational, and public-health investments. Over time, as spendin…

  • A Smartphone Application to Reduce Time-to-Notification of Sexually Transmitted Infections

    Adam C Cohen, Frederick J Zimmerman et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2017References: 29

    Objectives. To measure whether the implementation of Healthvana—an online patient engagement platform and smartphone application—reduced the number of days between sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing, notification, and treatment at AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) Wellness Centers. Methods. We analyzed the retrospective data for 917 male clients who tested positive and received treatment for chlamydia, gonorrhea, or syphilis between Janu…

  • Subjective Social Status and Self-Reported Health Among US-born and Immigrant Latinos

    Open AccessJeremiah R Garza, Beth A Glenn et al.ARTICLEJournal of Immigrant and Minority…2016

  • Children's Reasoning about Poverty, Economic Mobility, and Helping Behavior: Results of a Curriculum Intervention in the Early School Years

    Open AccessRashmita S Mistry, Lindsey Nenadal et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social Issues2016Cited by: 4References: 38

    This study evaluated the efficacy of an inquiry‐based poverty curriculum unit on students’ beliefs about causes of poverty, economic mobility, and helping behaviors. Participants were 89 kindergarten, first‐ and second‐grade students (mean age = 6.81 years, SD = .93) across two intervention and two control classrooms. Students in intervention classrooms participated in a 5‐ to 7‐week curriculum unit focused on poverty. Preintervention results sho…

  • Increasing public support for food-industry related, obesity prevention policies: The role of a taste-engineering frame and contextualized values

    Open AccessSelena E Ortiz, Frederick J Zimmerman et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2016Cited by: 7References: 46

  • Weighing In: The Taste-Engineering Frame in Obesity Expert Discourse

    Selena E Ortiz, Frederick J Zimmerman et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2015Cited by: 3References: 43

    Objectives. We sought expert opinion on the problems with 2 dominant obesity-prevention discourse frames—personal responsibility and the environment—and examined alternative frames for understanding and addressing obesity. Methods. We conducted 60-minute, semistructured interviews with 15 US-based obesity experts. We manually coded and entered interview transcripts into software, generating themes and subthematic areas that captured the debate’s …

  • The effects of food advertising and cognitive load on food choices

    Open AccessFrederick J Zimmerman, Sandhya Shimoga et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2014

    Televised food advertising has strong effects on individual food choice, and these effects are magnified when individuals are cognitively occupied by other tasks

  • Where’s the beef? A comment on Ferguson and Donnellan (2014)

    Frederick J ZimmermanARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2014

    To make a scientific contribution, a reanalysis must be firmly rooted in the identification of a clearly superior methodological innovation over the original research. By contrast, a reanalysis rooted in dissatisfaction with previous results will necessarily be biased and can only obscure scientific discoveries. The reanalysis published by Ferguson and Donnellan (2014) began with a highly selective literature review, failed to justify its methodo…

  • Impact of Different Policies on Unhealthy Dietary Behaviors in an Urban Adult Population: An Agent-Based Simulation Model

    Donglan Zhang, Philippe J Giabbanelli et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2014Cited by: 1References: 31

    Objectives. Unhealthy eating is a complex-system problem. We used agent-based modeling to examine the effects of different policies on unhealthy eating behaviors. Methods. We developed an agent-based simulation model to represent a synthetic population of adults in Pasadena, CA, and how they make dietary decisions. Data from the 2007 Food Attitudes and Behaviors Survey and other empirical studies were used to calibrate the parameters of the model…

  • Outdoor advertising, obesity, and soda consumption: A cross-sectional study

    Open AccessLenard I Lesser, Frederick J Zimmerman et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2013

    There is a relationship between the percentage of outdoor food advertising and overweight/obesity