Paula M Lantz
Biographic Data
| ID | 262268 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paula M Lantz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paula M |
| FAMILY NAME | Lantz |
| SIGNATURE | LANTZ P M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 411 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Associations of 4 Geographic Social Vulnerability Indices With US Covid-19 Incidence and Mortality
Objectives. To examine and compare how 4 indices of population-level social disadvantage—the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI), the Area Deprivation Index (ADI), the COVID-19 Community Vulnerability Index (CCVI), and the Minority Health–Social Vulnerability Index (MH-SVI)—are associated with COVID-19 outcomes. Methods. Spatial autoregressive models adjusted for population density, urbanicity, and state fixed effects were used to estimate associati…
Association of Social and Demographic Factors With Covid-19 Incidence and Death Rates in the US
Importance: Descriptive data have revealed significant racial/ethnic disparities in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases in the US, but underlying mechanisms of disparities remain unknown. Objective: To examine the association between county-level sociodemographic risk factors and US COVID-19 incidence and mortality. Design, Setting, and Participants: This cross-sectional study analyzed the association between US county-level sociodemographi…
Smoke-Free Policies and Smoking Cessation in the United States, 2003–2015
(1) Background: Smoking restrictions have been shown to be associated with reduced smoking, but there are a number of gaps in the literature surrounding the relationship between smoke-free policies and cessation, including the extent to which this association may be modified by sociodemographic characteristics. (2) Methods: We analyzed data from the Tobacco Use Supplement to the Current Population Survey, 2003-2015, to explore whether multiple me…
Pay for Success” Projects: Financing Interventions That Address Social Determinants of Health in 20 Countries
Over the past eight years, there has been an increase in the use of pay for success (PFS) as a financing tool whereby private investors provide initial funding for preventive health and human service interventions. If an independent evaluator deems the interventions successful, investors are repaid by the government. To better understand how PFS is used, we created a global landscape surveillance system to track and analyze data on all PFS projec…
Social Impact Bonds: A Promising Public–Private Partnership Model for Public Health
"Social Impact Bonds: A Promising Public–Private Partnership Model for Public Health." , 108(8), p. e6
Socioeconomic Status and Health Care
Adherence to clinical preventive services guidelines: Population-based online randomized trial
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) addresses use of clinical preventive services relative to evidence-based guidelines by mandating that most health insurance plans provide coverage without cost-sharing for services that receive an A or B rating. However, knowledge about and positive attitudes towards guidelines are extremely low. This study was a population-based randomized experiment to examine beliefs about and intentions to …
Health care access dimensions and cervical cancer screening in South Africa: Analysis of the world health survey
Our findings suggest that cost issues (affordability component) and other patient level factors (captured in the acceptability, accessibility and accommodation components) were less important predictors of screening compared with availability of physicians in this population. Meeting cervical cancer screening and HPV vaccination goals will require significant investments in the health care workforce, improving health care worker density in poor a…
Cumulative Exposure to Neighborhood Context: Consequences for Health Transitions Over the Adult Life Course
Over the last two decades, research has assessed the relationship between neighborhood socioeconomic factors and individual health. However, existing research is based almost exclusively on cross-sectional data, ignoring the complexity in health transitions that may be shaped by long-term residential exposures. We address these limitations by specifying distinct health transitions over multiple waves of a 15-year study of American adults. We focu…
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AffiliationsPaula M. Lantz is with the Department of Health Policy, School of Public Health and Health Services, George Washington University, Washington, DC. David Mendez is with the Department of Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Martin A. Philbert is with the School of Public Health and the Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan
Radon, Smoking, and Lung Cancer: The Need to Refocus Radon Control Policy
Exposure to radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer, and the risk is significantly higher for smokers than for nonsmokers. More than 85% of radon-induced lung cancer deaths are among smokers. The most powerful approach for reducing the public health burden of radon is shaped by 2 overarching principles: public communication efforts that promote residential radon testing and remediation will be the most cost effective if they are primaril…
The Social Structuring of Mental Health over the Adult Life Course: Advancing Theory in the Sociology of Aging
The sociology of aging draws on a broad array of theoretical perspectives from several disciplines, but rarely has it developed its own. We build on past work to advance and empirically test a model of mental health framed in terms of structural theorizing and situated within the life course perspective. Whereas most prior research has been based on cross-sectional data, we utilize four waves of data from a nationally representative sample of Ame…
Issue Emergence, Evolution of Controversy, and Implications for Competitive Framing: The Case of the HPV Vaccine
Although scholarship on competitive framing acknowledges that framing is a dynamic process in which the early stages may matter most, very little research has focused on the dynamics of issue emergence. In this article, we draw on several literatures to develop theories for how controversy related to new issues will emerge and expand in news coverage. Through a comprehensive content analysis of 101 local newspapers across the fifty U.S. states, w…
The Impact of Declining Smoking on Radon-Related Lung Cancer in the United States
Objectives. We examined the effect of current patterns of smoking rates on future radon-related lung cancer. Methods. We combined the model developed by the National Academy of Science's Committee on Health Risks of Exposure to Radon (the BEIR VI committee) for radon risk assessment with a forecasting model of US adult smoking prevalence to estimate proportional decline in radon-related deaths during the present century with and without mitigatio…
Socioeconomic and behavioral risk factors for mortality in a national 19-year prospective study of U.S. adults
An Evaluation of A Medicaid Expansion for Cancer Care
Neighborhood effects on BMI trends: Examining BMI trajectories for Black and White women
Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Residential Proximity to Polluting Industrial Facilities: Evidence From the Americans' Changing Lives Study
Objectives. We sought to demonstrate the advantages of using individual-level survey data in quantitative environmental justice analyses and to provide new evidence regarding racial and socioeconomic disparities in the distribution of polluting industrial facilities. Methods. Addresses of respondents in the baseline sample of the Americans' Changing Lives Study and polluting industrial facilities in the Environmental Protection Agency's Toxic Rel…
The Polarizing Effect of News Media Messages About the Social Determinants of Health
Framing health problems in terms of the social determinants of health aims to shift policy attention to nonmedical strategies to improve population health, yet little is known about how the public responds to these messages. We conducted an experiment to test the effect of a news article describing the social determinants of type 2 diabetes on the public's support for diabetes prevention strategies. We found that exposure to the social determinan…
Differential Trends in Weight-Related Health Behaviors Among American Young Adults by Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and Socioeconomic Status: 1984–2006
Objectives. We investigated temporal patterns from 1984 to 2006 in 6 weight-related health behaviors by using longitudinal data for multiple cohorts of young adults (aged 19–26 years) from the nationally representative Monitoring the Future Study. Methods. We used growth curve models to examine historical trends in 6 health behaviors: frequency of eating breakfast, eating green vegetables, eating fruit, exercising, watching television, and sleepi…
Communicating population health: Print news media coverage of type 2 diabetes
Urban built environments and trajectories of mobility disability: Findings from a national sample of community-dwelling American adults (1986-2001)
The Influence of Race, Ethnicity, and Individual Socioeconomic Factors on Breast Cancer Stage at Diagnosis
Objectives. Previous research has generally found that racial/ethnic differences in breast cancer stage at diagnosis attenuate when measures of socioeconomic status are included in the analysis, although most previous research measured socioeconomic status at the contextual level. This study investigated the relation between race/ethnicity, individual socioeconomic status, and breast cancer stage at diagnosis. Methods. Women with stage 0 to III b…
Doulas as childbirth paraprofessionals: Results from a national survey
Population-based study of the relationship of treatment and sociodemographics on quality of life for early stage breast cancer
Socioeconomic disparities in health change in a longitudinal study of US adults: The Role of Health-Risk Behaviors
Stress, Life Events, and Socioeconomic Disparities in Health: Results from the Americans' Changing Lives Study
It has been hypothesized that exposure to stress and negative life events is related to poor health outcomes, and that differential exposure to stress plays a role in socioeconomic disparities in health. Data from three waves of the Americans' Changing Lives study (n = 3,617) were analyzed to investigate prospectively the relationship among socioeconomic indicators, five measures of stress/negative life events, and the health outcomes of mortalit…
The social construction of the breast cancer epidemic
The Polarizing Effect of News Media Messages About the Social Determinants of Health
Framing health problems in terms of the social determinants of health aims to shift policy attention to nonmedical strategies to improve population health, yet little is known about how the public responds to these messages. We conducted an experiment to test the effect of a news article describing the social determinants of type 2 diabetes on the public's support for diabetes prevention strategies. We found that exposure to the social determinan…
Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Residential Proximity to Polluting Industrial Facilities: Evidence From the Americans' Changing Lives Study
Objectives. We sought to demonstrate the advantages of using individual-level survey data in quantitative environmental justice analyses and to provide new evidence regarding racial and socioeconomic disparities in the distribution of polluting industrial facilities. Methods. Addresses of respondents in the baseline sample of the Americans' Changing Lives Study and polluting industrial facilities in the Environmental Protection Agency's Toxic Rel…
Urban built environments and trajectories of mobility disability: Findings from a national sample of community-dwelling American adults (1986-2001)
Socioeconomic and behavioral risk factors for mortality in a national 19-year prospective study of U.S. adults
Communicating population health: Print news media coverage of type 2 diabetes
Addressing Urban Health in Detroit, New York City, and Seattle Through Community-Based Participatory Research Partnerships
Objective. This study describes key activities integral to the development of 3 community-based participatory research (CBPR) partnerships. Methods. We compared findings from individual case studies conducted at 3 urban research centers (URCs) to identify crosscutting adaptations of a CBPR approach in the first 4 years of the partnerships’ development. Results. Activities critical in partnership development include sharing decisionmaking, definin…
Neighborhood effects on BMI trends: Examining BMI trajectories for Black and White women
The Influence of Race, Ethnicity, and Individual Socioeconomic Factors on Breast Cancer Stage at Diagnosis
Objectives. Previous research has generally found that racial/ethnic differences in breast cancer stage at diagnosis attenuate when measures of socioeconomic status are included in the analysis, although most previous research measured socioeconomic status at the contextual level. This study investigated the relation between race/ethnicity, individual socioeconomic status, and breast cancer stage at diagnosis. Methods. Women with stage 0 to III b…
Issue Emergence, Evolution of Controversy, and Implications for Competitive Framing: The Case of the HPV Vaccine
Although scholarship on competitive framing acknowledges that framing is a dynamic process in which the early stages may matter most, very little research has focused on the dynamics of issue emergence. In this article, we draw on several literatures to develop theories for how controversy related to new issues will emerge and expand in news coverage. Through a comprehensive content analysis of 101 local newspapers across the fifty U.S. states, w…
Breast and cervical cancer screening in a low-income managed care sample: The efficacy of physician letters and phone calls
A randomized trial was conducted to evaluate the combined impact of a physician reminder letter and a telephone contact on the use of Pap tests and mammograms in a low-income managed care program. Women 40 to 79 years of age who were past due for cancer screening were randomly assigned to an intervention or control group. Medical claims were reviewed after 6 months to determine intervention effectiveness. The odds of receiving all needed cancer s…
Using Retrospective Surveys for Estimating the Effects of Breastfeeding and Childspacing on Infant and Child Mortality
Recent contributions to our knowledge about the effects of breastfeeding and pace of childbearing on early child mortality have originated in the analysis of birth histories elicited from retrospective interviews. The validity of these findings has been questioned on the ground that when the timing of events is systematically distorted, estimates of effects will be affected by serious biases. In addition, it has been argued that the results obtai…
Radon, Smoking, and Lung Cancer: The Need to Refocus Radon Control Policy
Exposure to radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer, and the risk is significantly higher for smokers than for nonsmokers. More than 85% of radon-induced lung cancer deaths are among smokers. The most powerful approach for reducing the public health burden of radon is shaped by 2 overarching principles: public communication efforts that promote residential radon testing and remediation will be the most cost effective if they are primaril…
Role of Health Insurance and a Usual Source of Medical Care in Age-Appropriate Vaccination
Objectives. We examined the associations of having health insurance and having a usual source of medical care with age-appropriate childhood vaccination. Methods. Simulations were conducted with multivariate logistic regression models and a nationally representative sample of children to assess the likelihood of age-appropriate vaccination. Results. Simulated provision of health insurance and a usual source of medical care produced substantial in…
Associations of 4 Geographic Social Vulnerability Indices With US Covid-19 Incidence and Mortality
Objectives. To examine and compare how 4 indices of population-level social disadvantage—the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI), the Area Deprivation Index (ADI), the COVID-19 Community Vulnerability Index (CCVI), and the Minority Health–Social Vulnerability Index (MH-SVI)—are associated with COVID-19 outcomes. Methods. Spatial autoregressive models adjusted for population density, urbanicity, and state fixed effects were used to estimate associati…
The Impact of Declining Smoking on Radon-Related Lung Cancer in the United States
Objectives. We examined the effect of current patterns of smoking rates on future radon-related lung cancer. Methods. We combined the model developed by the National Academy of Science's Committee on Health Risks of Exposure to Radon (the BEIR VI committee) for radon risk assessment with a forecasting model of US adult smoking prevalence to estimate proportional decline in radon-related deaths during the present century with and without mitigatio…
Breast Cancer Treatment Experiences of Latinas in Los Angeles County
Objective. We examined breast cancer treatment experiences of and outcomes for Latinas in Los Angeles County. Methods. We conducted a population-based survey of women who were diagnosed with breast cancer between December 2001 and November 2002 (n=910) to evaluate the types of treatments received, communication with clinicians, and satisfaction. Results. About two thirds were non-Latina White, 18.8% were African American, and 18.9% were Latina (w…
Impact of a smoke-free policy on prisoners in Wisconsin, United States
Correspondence to : Dr G Pezzino, Wisconsin Division of Health, 1400 East Washington Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53703-3041, USA. Abstract Objective -To assess the impact of re strictive smoking policies in prisons on prisoners9 smoking attitudes and beha viours. Design A prospective observational study was carried out in a smoke-free prison and in a prison where smoking was allowed. Prisoners completed a question naire at the time of release. Smo…
Using Retrospective Surveys for Estimating the Effects of Breastfeeding and Childspacing on Infant and Child Mortality
Recent contributions to our knowledge about the effects of breastfeeding and pace of childbearing on early child mortality have originated in the analysis of birth histories elicited from retrospective interviews. The validity of these findings has been questioned on the ground that when the timing of events is systematically distorted, estimates of effects will be affected by serious biases. In addition, it has been argued that the results obtai…
Breast and cervical cancer screening in a low-income managed care sample: The efficacy of physician letters and phone calls
A randomized trial was conducted to evaluate the combined impact of a physician reminder letter and a telephone contact on the use of Pap tests and mammograms in a low-income managed care program. Women 40 to 79 years of age who were past due for cancer screening were randomly assigned to an intervention or control group. Medical claims were reviewed after 6 months to determine intervention effectiveness. The odds of receiving all needed cancer s…
Education and Income Differentials in Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening: Policy Implications for Rural Women
OBJECTIVES: Despite substantial evidence of socioeconomic differences in the use of breast and cervical cancer screening, the mechanisms explaining these differences, and therefore their policy implications are not well understood. We investigated the way that education and income influence rural women's use of mammograms and Pap tests, including financial barriers to medical care, knowledge and attitudinal barriers, and nonfinancial factors rela…
Socioeconomic Factors, Health Behaviors, and Mortality: Results From a Nationally Representative Prospective Study of US Adults
CONTEXT: A prominent hypothesis regarding social inequalities in mortality is that the elevated risk among the socioeconomically disadvantaged is largely due to the higher prevalence of health risk behaviors among those with lower levels of education and income. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the degree to which 4 behavioral risk factors (cigarette smoking, alcohol drinking, sedentary lifestyle, and relative body weight) explain the observed associati…
The social construction of the breast cancer epidemic
Strategies for follow-up and treatment services in state breast and cervical cancer screening programs
Measurement Error in Prenatal Care Utilization: Evidence of Attenuation Bias in the Estimation of Impact on Birth Weight
Can Communities and Academia Work Together on Public Health Research? Evaluation Results From a Community-Based Participatory Research Partnership in Detroit
Pollack Et Al. Respond
De Weerd and colleagues raise the important issue of validity of maternal self-reported smoking. Their contribution highlights existing findings that some pregnant women underreport their tobacco use.1,2,3 De Weerd et al. add to this literature by offering the interesting finding of underreports among women receiving preconception counseling
Socioeconomic disparities in health change in a longitudinal study of US adults: The Role of Health-Risk Behaviors
A disease-specific Medicaid expansion for women
Implementing Women’s Cancer Screening Programs in American Indian and Alaska Native Populations
The National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program provides funding to tribes and tribal organizations to implement comprehensive cancer screening programs using a program model developed for state health departments. We conducted a multiple-site case study using a participatory research process to describe how 5 tribal programs implemented screening services, and to identify strategies used to address challenges in delivering servic…
Implementing Women's Cancer Screening Programs in American Indian and Alaska Native Populations
The National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program provides funding to tribes and tribal organizations to implement comprehensive cancer screening programs using a program model developed for state health departments. We conducted a multiple-site case study using a participatory research process to describe how 5 tribal programs implemented screening services, and to identify strategies used to address challenges in delivering servic…
Addressing Urban Health in Detroit, New York City, and Seattle Through Community-Based Participatory Research Partnerships
Objective. This study describes key activities integral to the development of 3 community-based participatory research (CBPR) partnerships. Methods. We compared findings from individual case studies conducted at 3 urban research centers (URCs) to identify crosscutting adaptations of a CBPR approach in the first 4 years of the partnerships’ development. Results. Activities critical in partnership development include sharing decisionmaking, definin…
Tobacco harm reduction: What do the experts think?: Table 1
Continued dialogue and debate are essential as we enter a new and uncertain era of products purporting to reduce tobacco produced harm. Experts have concluded that effective government regulation is crucial to minimising the risks associated with THR and maximising potential benefits
Role of Health Insurance and a Usual Source of Medical Care in Age-Appropriate Vaccination
Objectives. We examined the associations of having health insurance and having a usual source of medical care with age-appropriate childhood vaccination. Methods. Simulations were conducted with multivariate logistic regression models and a nationally representative sample of children to assess the likelihood of age-appropriate vaccination. Results. Simulated provision of health insurance and a usual source of medical care produced substantial in…
Doulas as childbirth paraprofessionals: Results from a national survey
Population-based study of the relationship of treatment and sociodemographics on quality of life for early stage breast cancer
Continuity and Change in the Social Stratification of Aging and Health Over the Life Course: Evidence From a Nationally Representative Longitudinal Study From 1986 to 2001/2002 (Americans' Changing Li…
Objectives. This article overviews previously published and ongoing research from the Americans' Changing Lives (ACL) Study, a longitudinal study of a nationally representative sample of 3,617 adults aged 25 years and older when first interviewed in 1986, focusing on socioeconomic disparities in the way health changes with age during middle and later life, especially in terms of compression of morbidity/functional limitations. Methods. A variety …
Breast Cancer Treatment Experiences of Latinas in Los Angeles County
Objective. We examined breast cancer treatment experiences of and outcomes for Latinas in Los Angeles County. Methods. We conducted a population-based survey of women who were diagnosed with breast cancer between December 2001 and November 2002 (n=910) to evaluate the types of treatments received, communication with clinicians, and satisfaction. Results. About two thirds were non-Latina White, 18.8% were African American, and 18.9% were Latina (w…
Stress, Life Events, and Socioeconomic Disparities in Health: Results from the Americans' Changing Lives Study
It has been hypothesized that exposure to stress and negative life events is related to poor health outcomes, and that differential exposure to stress plays a role in socioeconomic disparities in health. Data from three waves of the Americans' Changing Lives study (n = 3,617) were analyzed to investigate prospectively the relationship among socioeconomic indicators, five measures of stress/negative life events, and the health outcomes of mortalit…
The Influence of Race, Ethnicity, and Individual Socioeconomic Factors on Breast Cancer Stage at Diagnosis
Objectives. Previous research has generally found that racial/ethnic differences in breast cancer stage at diagnosis attenuate when measures of socioeconomic status are included in the analysis, although most previous research measured socioeconomic status at the contextual level. This study investigated the relation between race/ethnicity, individual socioeconomic status, and breast cancer stage at diagnosis. Methods. Women with stage 0 to III b…
An Evaluation of A Medicaid Expansion for Cancer Care
Neighborhood effects on BMI trends: Examining BMI trajectories for Black and White women
Medicine (43 works) · Environmental health (26 works) · Population (24 works) · Demography (21 works) · Political science (20 works) · Public health (20 works) · Gerontology (15 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (15 works) · Nursing (15 works) · Sociology (15 works)