Pam Factor-Litvak
Biographic Data
| ID | 186231 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pam Factor-Litvak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pam |
| FAMILY NAME | Factor-Litvak |
| SIGNATURE | FACTOR-LITVAK P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7729-1884 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Changing Landscape of Maternal Health Care in the United States
Stress across the lifecourse and adult mental and physical health outcomes
INTRODUCTION: Economic, social, and traumatic stressors have been shown to impact mental and physical health. Few studies have considered whether different domains of stressors have a differential effect on health outcomes or have considered stressors across the lifecourse. We characterize stress cumulatively (life stress) and across different domains and examine their relation to adult mental and physical health using prospectively collected dat…
American Dreaming? Evaluating Trait Explanations for Health Inequalities by Race and Socioeconomic Status
In the context of strong cultural beliefs associated with the American Dream, a prominent body of scholarship asserts that traits such as intelligence, self-confidence, and self-control play a pivotal role in the life course emergence of health inequalities by race and socioeconomic status (SES). We use prospectively ascertained data from approximately 50-year-old Black and White study participants (N = 605) whose mothers were recruited when preg…
Cumulative Stress Across the Life Course and Biological Aging in Adulthood
OBJECTIVE: Psychosocial stressors have been linked with accelerated biological aging in adults; however, few studies have examined stressors across the life course in relation to biological aging. METHODS: In 359 individuals (57% White, 34% Black) from the Child Health and Development Studies Disparities study, economic (income, education, financial strain), social (parent-child relations, caretaker responsibilities) and traumatic (death of a sib…
Educational Outcomes Are an Underused Metric for Child and Life Course Health
Predictors of Phthalate Metabolites Exposure among Healthy Pregnant Women in the United States, 2010–2015
Phthalate use and the concentrations of their metabolites in humans vary by geographic region, race, ethnicity, sex, product use and other factors. Exposure during pregnancy may be associated with detrimental reproductive and developmental outcomes. No studies have evaluated the predictors of exposure to a wide range of phthalate metabolites in a large, diverse population. We examined the determinants of phthalate metabolites in a cohort of racia…
Racial socialization and discrimination-related psychological distress in middle-aged Black men and women
244, 49.6% female). Multiple regression analyses were performed separately by gender to assess (a) the main effects of racial socialization and racial discrimination on adult psychological distress, (b) racial socialization as a moderator of the association between racial discrimination and adult psychological distress, and (c) whether controls for prospectively assessed childhood factors changed conclusions regarding the role of racial socializa…
Racial Disparities in Avoidant Coping and Hypertension Among Midlife Adults
Response to
War in Nagorno-Karabakh highlights the vulnerability of displaced populations to Covid-19
Conflict, war and the resultant displacement of populations increase risk for infectious disease transmission. Forced migration, loss of safe shelter, loss of livelihood and interrupted access to clean water, electricity and healthcare all lead to increases in epidemic risk. Refugees and displaced people are uniquely vulnerable to COVID-19. The chaos of war and its aftermath override the population health education messages to wear a mask, social…
Explaining the Black-white depression paradox
Predictors of Urinary Pyrethroid and Organophosphate Compound Concentrations among Healthy Pregnant Women in New York
Our study aimed to investigate dietary and non-dietary predictors of exposure to pyrethroids, organophosphates pesticides and 2,4-D herbicide in two cohorts of pregnant women in New York City: 153 women from the Thyroid Disruption and Infant Development (TDID) cohort and 121 from the Sibling/Hermanos Cohort(S/H). Baseline data on predictors were collected from the women at time of recruitment. We used three different modeling strategies to addres…
Modeling racial disparities in physical health via close relationship functioning
Prepregnancy overweight and obesity are associated with impaired child neurodevelopment
The authors examined the relationship of prepregnancy body mass index (BMI) and gestational weight gain (GWG) with child neurodevelopment. Mother-child dyads were a subgroup (n = 2,084) of the Child Health and Development Studies from the Oakland, California, area enrolled during pregnancy from 1959 to 1966 and followed at child age 9 years. Linear regression was used to examine associations between prepregnancy BMI, GWG, and standardized Peabody…
Disparities in self-rated health across generations and through the life course
Characterization of Weighted Quantile Sum Regression for Highly Correlated Data in a Risk Analysis Setting
The Pattern of Gestational Weight Gain is Associated with Changes in Maternal Body Composition and Neonatal Size
Wasserman et al. Respond
Wasserman et al. Respond Gail A. Wasserman, Joe Graziano, and Pam Factor-Litvak CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.88.12.1879-a Published Online: October 07, 2011
Past pregnancy outcomes among women living in the vicinity of a lead smelter in Kosovo, Yugoslavia
This analysis compares the rates of spontaneous abortion among women living in the vicinity of a lead smelter with those of women living in a town where blood lead levels were low. Data derive from the obstetric histories of both groups of women obtained while seeking prenatal care for a later pregnancy. A total of 639 women (304 exposed, 335 unexposed) had at least one previous pregnancy and lived at the same address since their first pregnancy.…
Disparities in self-rated health across generations and through the life course
Explaining the Black-white depression paradox
Modeling racial disparities in physical health via close relationship functioning
Past pregnancy outcomes among women living in the vicinity of a lead smelter in Kosovo, Yugoslavia
This analysis compares the rates of spontaneous abortion among women living in the vicinity of a lead smelter with those of women living in a town where blood lead levels were low. Data derive from the obstetric histories of both groups of women obtained while seeking prenatal care for a later pregnancy. A total of 639 women (304 exposed, 335 unexposed) had at least one previous pregnancy and lived at the same address since their first pregnancy.…
War in Nagorno-Karabakh highlights the vulnerability of displaced populations to Covid-19
Conflict, war and the resultant displacement of populations increase risk for infectious disease transmission. Forced migration, loss of safe shelter, loss of livelihood and interrupted access to clean water, electricity and healthcare all lead to increases in epidemic risk. Refugees and displaced people are uniquely vulnerable to COVID-19. The chaos of war and its aftermath override the population health education messages to wear a mask, social…
Past pregnancy outcomes among women living in the vicinity of a lead smelter in Kosovo, Yugoslavia
This analysis compares the rates of spontaneous abortion among women living in the vicinity of a lead smelter with those of women living in a town where blood lead levels were low. Data derive from the obstetric histories of both groups of women obtained while seeking prenatal care for a later pregnancy. A total of 639 women (304 exposed, 335 unexposed) had at least one previous pregnancy and lived at the same address since their first pregnancy.…
Wasserman et al. Respond
Wasserman et al. Respond Gail A. Wasserman, Joe Graziano, and Pam Factor-Litvak CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.88.12.1879-a Published Online: October 07, 2011
Characterization of Weighted Quantile Sum Regression for Highly Correlated Data in a Risk Analysis Setting
The Pattern of Gestational Weight Gain is Associated with Changes in Maternal Body Composition and Neonatal Size
Prepregnancy overweight and obesity are associated with impaired child neurodevelopment
The authors examined the relationship of prepregnancy body mass index (BMI) and gestational weight gain (GWG) with child neurodevelopment. Mother-child dyads were a subgroup (n = 2,084) of the Child Health and Development Studies from the Oakland, California, area enrolled during pregnancy from 1959 to 1966 and followed at child age 9 years. Linear regression was used to examine associations between prepregnancy BMI, GWG, and standardized Peabody…
Disparities in self-rated health across generations and through the life course
Modeling racial disparities in physical health via close relationship functioning
Predictors of Urinary Pyrethroid and Organophosphate Compound Concentrations among Healthy Pregnant Women in New York
Our study aimed to investigate dietary and non-dietary predictors of exposure to pyrethroids, organophosphates pesticides and 2,4-D herbicide in two cohorts of pregnant women in New York City: 153 women from the Thyroid Disruption and Infant Development (TDID) cohort and 121 from the Sibling/Hermanos Cohort(S/H). Baseline data on predictors were collected from the women at time of recruitment. We used three different modeling strategies to addres…
Response to
War in Nagorno-Karabakh highlights the vulnerability of displaced populations to Covid-19
Conflict, war and the resultant displacement of populations increase risk for infectious disease transmission. Forced migration, loss of safe shelter, loss of livelihood and interrupted access to clean water, electricity and healthcare all lead to increases in epidemic risk. Refugees and displaced people are uniquely vulnerable to COVID-19. The chaos of war and its aftermath override the population health education messages to wear a mask, social…
Explaining the Black-white depression paradox
Racial Disparities in Avoidant Coping and Hypertension Among Midlife Adults
Predictors of Phthalate Metabolites Exposure among Healthy Pregnant Women in the United States, 2010–2015
Phthalate use and the concentrations of their metabolites in humans vary by geographic region, race, ethnicity, sex, product use and other factors. Exposure during pregnancy may be associated with detrimental reproductive and developmental outcomes. No studies have evaluated the predictors of exposure to a wide range of phthalate metabolites in a large, diverse population. We examined the determinants of phthalate metabolites in a cohort of racia…
Racial socialization and discrimination-related psychological distress in middle-aged Black men and women
244, 49.6% female). Multiple regression analyses were performed separately by gender to assess (a) the main effects of racial socialization and racial discrimination on adult psychological distress, (b) racial socialization as a moderator of the association between racial discrimination and adult psychological distress, and (c) whether controls for prospectively assessed childhood factors changed conclusions regarding the role of racial socializa…
Cumulative Stress Across the Life Course and Biological Aging in Adulthood
OBJECTIVE: Psychosocial stressors have been linked with accelerated biological aging in adults; however, few studies have examined stressors across the life course in relation to biological aging. METHODS: In 359 individuals (57% White, 34% Black) from the Child Health and Development Studies Disparities study, economic (income, education, financial strain), social (parent-child relations, caretaker responsibilities) and traumatic (death of a sib…
Educational Outcomes Are an Underused Metric for Child and Life Course Health
The Changing Landscape of Maternal Health Care in the United States
Stress across the lifecourse and adult mental and physical health outcomes
INTRODUCTION: Economic, social, and traumatic stressors have been shown to impact mental and physical health. Few studies have considered whether different domains of stressors have a differential effect on health outcomes or have considered stressors across the lifecourse. We characterize stress cumulatively (life stress) and across different domains and examine their relation to adult mental and physical health using prospectively collected dat…
American Dreaming? Evaluating Trait Explanations for Health Inequalities by Race and Socioeconomic Status
In the context of strong cultural beliefs associated with the American Dream, a prominent body of scholarship asserts that traits such as intelligence, self-confidence, and self-control play a pivotal role in the life course emergence of health inequalities by race and socioeconomic status (SES). We use prospectively ascertained data from approximately 50-year-old Black and White study participants (N = 605) whose mothers were recruited when preg…
Medicine (12 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (7 works) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (7 works) · Biology (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Environmental health (5 works) · Gerontology (5 works) · Pregnancy (5 works)