Herman A Taylor

Biographic Data

ID179516
NAMEHerman A Taylor
GIVEN NAMESHerman A
FAMILY NAMETaylor
SIGNATURETAYLOR H A
AFFILIATIONSMorehouse School of Medicine
ORCID0000-0003-3623-7264
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS20
TOTAL CITATIONS172
WORKS AS AUTHOR20
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1994
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX7

  • Leveraging Community‐Based System Dynamics to Understand Long Covid Disparities in African American Communities

    Open AccessChad R Evans, Melvin R Echols et al.ARTICLEHealth Expectations2025

    BACKGROUND: Long Covid disproportionately affects African American communities, exacerbating pre-existing health disparities and systemic barriers to care. Conventional public health interventions often fail to address the complex systemic issues at play due to a lack of grounding in community-certified knowledge about the broader societal context that produces the disparities and in which the interventions must operate. New methods are needed to…

  • The Paradox of Integration

    Open AccessGuadalupe Marquez-Velarde, Rachel Grashow et al.ARTICLESociology of Race and Ethnicity2023Cited by: 3References: 68

    As highly visible organizations, professional sports teams provide a context to examine the reproduction of racial hierarchies over time. This study analyzes racial segregation/integration in the NFL between 1960 and 2020. Using data from 20,357 players, we examine the racial composition of positions in the field and how these patterns influence career length. Our analysis reveals three distinct patterns of segregation/integration over time: cumu…

  • Modifiable Resources and Resilience in Racially and Ethnically Diverse Older Women

    Open AccessSparkle Springfield, FeiFei Qin et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2022

    Introduction : Resilience-which we define as the "ability to bounce back from stress"-can foster successful aging among older, racially and ethnically diverse women. This study investigated the association between psychological resilience in the Women's Health Initiative Extension Study (WHI-ES) and three constructs defined by Staudinger's 2015 model of resilience and aging: (1) perceived stress, (2) non-psychological resources, and (3) psycholog…

  • Impact of Technology-Based Intervention for Improving Self-Management Behaviors in Black Adults with Poor Cardiovascular Health

    Open AccessTulani Washington-Plaskett, Muhammed Y Idris et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021

    Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the number one killer of adults in the U.S., with marked ethnic/racial disparities in prevalence, risk factors, associated health behaviors, and death rates. In this study, we recruited and randomized Blacks with poor cardiovascular health in the Atlanta Metro area to receive an intervention comparing two approaches to engagement with a behavioral intervention technology for CVD. Generalized Linear Mixed Models res…

  • Perspective

    Herman A Taylor, Tulani Washington-Plaskett et al.ARTICLEEthnicity & Disease2020

    The health of African Americans has been largely described in terms of deficits, disease and death. Little attention has been historically given to the fact that African Americans as a population show the sustained ability to survive an evolving array of social, economic and environmental adversities that date back to more than a century before the founding of the United States. While these inequities have indeed taken (and continue to take) a de…

  • Socioeconomic Status and Cardiovascular Outcomes

    William M Schultz, Heval Mohamed Kelli et al.ARTICLECirculation2018

    Socioeconomic status (SES) has a measurable and significant effect on cardiovascular health. Biological, behavioral, and psychosocial risk factors prevalent in disadvantaged individuals accentuate the link between SES and cardiovascular disease (CVD). Four measures have been consistently associated with CVD in high-income countries: income level, educational attainment, employment status, and neighborhood socioeconomic factors. In addition, dispa…

  • Changing rate orders of race-gender heart disease death rates

    Open AccessAdam S Vaughan, Herbert Quick et al.ARTICLESSM - Population Health2018

    A holistic view of racial and gender disparities that simultaneously compares multiple groups can suggest associated underlying contextual factors. Therefore, to more comprehensively understand temporal changes in combined racial and gender disparities, we examine variations in the orders of county-level race-gender specific heart disease death rates by age group from 1973-2015. We estimated county-level heart disease death rates by race, gender,…

  • Dimensions of and Responses to Perceived Discrimination and Subclinical Disease Among African-Americans in the Jackson Heart Study

    Open AccessVictoria I Okhomina, Victoria Okhomina et al.ARTICLEJournal of Racial and Ethnic…2018Cited by: 3References: 26

  • Cardiovascular Health in African Americans

    Mercedes R Carnethon, Jia Pu et al.ARTICLECirculation2017

    BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Population-wide reductions in cardiovascular disease incidence and mortality have not been shared equally by African Americans. The burden of cardiovascular disease in the African American community remains high and is a primary cause of disparities in life expectancy between African Americans and whites. The objectives of the present scientific statement are to describe cardiovascular health in African Americans and to hi…

  • Perceived discrimination is associated with health behaviours among African-Americans in the Jackson Heart Study

    Mario Sims, Ana V Diez-Roux et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2015Cited by: 33References: 13

    Higher levels of perceived discrimination were associated with select health behaviours among men and women. Health behaviours offer a potential mechanism through which perceived discrimination affects health in AA

  • Socioeconomic status, John Henryism and blood pressure among African-Americans in the Jackson Heart Study

    Open AccessMalavika Ambale Subramanyam, A James et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2013Cited by: 27References: 18

  • Social Patterning of Cumulative Biological Risk by Education and Income Among African Americans

    Demarc A Hickson, Ana V Diez Roux et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2012Cited by: 7References: 37

    Objectives. We examined the social patterning of cumulative dysregulation of multiple systems, or allostatic load, among African Americans adults. Methods. We examined the cross-sectional associations of socioeconomic status (SES) with summary indices of allostatic load and neuroendocrine, metabolic, autonomic, and immune function components in 4048 Jackson Heart Study participants. Results. Lower education and income were associated with higher …

  • Perceived Discrimination and Hypertension Among African Americans in the Jackson Heart Study

    Mario Sims, Ana V Diez-Roux et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2012Cited by: 57References: 16

    Further understanding the role of perceived discrimination in the etiology of hypertension may be beneficial in eliminating hypertension disparities

  • Subjective social status and psychosocial and metabolic risk factors for cardiovascular disease among African Americans in the Jackson Heart Study

    Open AccessMalavika Ambale Subramanyam, Ana V Diez-Roux et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2012Cited by: 12References: 28

  • The contribution of stress to the social patterning of clinical and subclinical CVD risk factors in African Americans

    Open AccessSamson Y Gebreab, Ana V Diez-Roux et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2012Cited by: 7References: 76

  • Psychometric Testing of the Daily Spiritual Experiences Scale Among African Americans in the Jackson Heart Study

    Open AccessFleetwood Loustalot, Sharon B Wyatt et al.ARTICLEJournal of Religion and Health2011

  • Methods for Retrospective Geocoding in Population Studies

    Open AccessJames C Robinson, Jennifer C Robinson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Health2009Cited by: 5

  • Cardiovascular Disease Among Women Residing in Rural America

    Herman A Taylor, Gail Hughes et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2002Cited by: 3References: 27

    Many believe that the United States has entered a “Golden Age” of cardiovascular health and medicine. Pharmacological and technological advances have indeed produced an era of declining mortality rates from cardiovascular diseases for the nation as a whole. However, there remain areas of challenge. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is still by far the leading cause of death and disability in the United States, and it is the leading killer of US women.…

  • The Psychophysiological Investigations of Myocardial Ischemia (Pimi) Study

    Peter Kaufmann, Peter G Kaufmann et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine1998

    OBJECTIVE: This study evaluated physiological, neuroendocrine, and psychological status and functioning of patients with coronary artery disease in order to clarify their role in the expression of symptoms during myocardial ischemia (MI), and to establish repeatability of responses to mental stress. Design and methods of the study are presented. METHODS: One hundred ninety-six coronary artery disease patients were examined during physical and men…

  • Diagnoses, symptoms, and attribution of symptoms among black and white inpatients admitted for coronary heart disease

    James M Raczynski, H Taylor et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health1994Cited by: 15References: 15

    OBJECTIVES. This study examined health care-seeking behaviors to elucidate factors that contribute to differences in patterns of coronary heart disease between African Americans and Whites. The prevalence of diagnosed coronary heart disease, patients' perceptions of symptoms and attribution of symptoms, and predictors of painful symptoms and attribution of cardiac symptoms were examined. METHODS. The study involved 2416 patients admitted with dia…