Clyde Hertzman
Biographic Data
| ID | 267065 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clyde Hertzman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clyde |
| FAMILY NAME | Hertzman |
| SIGNATURE | HERTZMAN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 55 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 573 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 54 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Associations between child home language, gender, bilingualism and school readiness: A population-based study
Associations of teacher-rated social, emotional, and cognitive development in kindergarten to self-reported wellbeing, peer relations, and academic test scores in middle childhood
Social Resilience in the Neo-Liberal Era
What is the impact of three decades of neoliberal narratives and policies on communities and individual lives? What are the sources of social resilience? This book offers a sweeping assessment of the effects of neoliberalism, the dominant feature of our times. It analyzes the ideology in unusually wide-ranging terms as a movement that not only opened markets but also introduced new logics into social life, integrating macro-level analyses of the …
Development and Validation of the Middle Years Development Instrument (MDI): Assessing Children's Well-Being and Assets across Multiple Contexts
Few instruments provide reliable and valid data on child well-being and contextual assets during middle childhood, using children as informants. The authors developed a population-level, self-report measure of school-aged children's well-being and assets-the Middle Years Development Instrument (MDI)-and examined its reliability and validity. The MDI was designed to assess child well-being inside and outside of school on five dimensions: (1) Socia…
Well-Being in Middle Childhood: An Assets-Based Population-Level Research-to-Action Project
Does Full Day Kindergarten Help Kids
Full day kindergarten (FDK) is expanding across North America, but program impacts remain poorly understood. Using administrative data, this paper reports impacts from a targeted program in British Columbia for Aboriginal and English as a Second Language (ESL) students. Staged implementation of FDK created natural controls, allowing unbiased two-stage least squares (instrumental variables) estimates of program impacts. We find that the targeted F…
Unemployment and Mortality: A Comparative Study of Germany and the United States
Objectives. We examined the relationship between unemployment and mortality in Germany, a coordinated market economy, and the United States, a liberal market economy. Methods. We followed 2 working-age cohorts from the German Socio-economic Panel and the US Panel Study of Income Dynamics from 1984 to 2005. We defined unemployment as unemployed at the time of survey. We used discrete-time survival analysis, adjusting for potential confounders. Res…
CRC General Comment 7 Indicators Framework: A Tool for Monitoring the Implementation of Child Rights in Early Childhood
United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) has universal recognition \nas the main human rights treaty providing international standards and a yardstick for fulfillment of children’s rights. The Convention stipulates a monitoring system for countries that signed up to it. This system places international legal obligation on \ncountries to write periodic reports to the Committee on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) \nas the monitorin…
Opening Remarks to the Special Issue on Validation Theory and Research for a Population-Level Measure of Children’s Development, Wellbeing, and School Readiness
Validation Theory and Research for a Population-Level Measure of Children's Development, Wellbeing, and School Readiness
How Experience Gets Under the Skin to Create Gradients in Developmental Health
Social environments and experiences get under the skin early in life in ways that affect the course of human development. Because most factors associated with early child development are a function of socio-economic status, differences in early child development form a socio-economic gradient. We are now learning how, when, and by what means early experiences influence key biological systems over the long term to produce gradients: a process know…
The social determinants of early child development: An overview
Aim: This paper offers an overview of the current state of knowledge of the critical social determinants of child development and the complex ways in which these can influence health trajectories. Methods: We conducted an overview of the research conducted by medical and social scientists in the attempt to uncover the conditions under which children reach optimal health and developmental. Results: The first years of life represent a critical peri…
The Relationship between Professional Immigrant Parents’ Underemployment Status and their Children’s Emotional Health and Behavioral Patterns
This study examined the relationship between a stressful life and low economical status due to underemployment among professional immigrants in the Greater Vancouver Area (GVA), and their children’s emotional and behavioural health. Employing a cross-sectional qualitative design, interviews and focus groups were conducted with the target population, and focus groups were held with representatives from immigrant service-provider agencies (key-info…
How neighborhoods matter for rural and urban children's language and cognitive development at kindergarten and Grade 4
The authors took a population‐based approach to testing how commonly studied neighborhood socioeconomic conditions are associated with the language and cognitive outcomes of residentially stable rural and urban children tracked from kindergarten (ages 5–6) to Grade 4 (ages 9–10). Child‐level kindergarten Early Development Instrument (EDI) data were probabilistically linked to scores on Grade 4's Foundation Skills Assessment (FSA), 4 years later, …
Why Are Some Books Important (and Others Not)
Les coûts économiques de la vulnérabilité précoce au Canada
A case control study of differences in non-work injury and accidents among sawmill workers in rural compared to urban British Columbia, Canada
In a relatively homogenous group of workers, and using a rigorous study design, we have demonstrated that the odds of other non-work injury are much higher for workers resident in and migrating to rural regions of Canada than they are for workers resident in or migrating to urban places
Children’s Development in Kindergarten: A Multilevel, Population-Based Analysis of ESL and Gender Effects on Socioeconomic Gradients
The use of population‐level data to advance interdisciplinary methodology: A cell‐through‐society sampling framework for child development research
The authors argue that population‐level data should be used to advance interdisciplinary research about community effects on early development. These data permit the identification of neighborhoods in which development patterns deviate from predictions based on local socioeconomic status (SES). So‐called ‘off‐diagonal’ places signal where researchers are likely to discover processes that either deflect the risks of low SES or dampen the salutary …
Early experiences matter: Lasting effect of concentrated disadvantage on children's language and cognitive outcomes
Regions, hospitals and health outcomes over time: A multi-level analysis of repeat prevalence among a cohort of health-care workers
From Kindergarten readiness to fourth-grade assessment: Longitudinal analysis with linked population data
Concentrated affluence, concentrated disadvantage, and children's readiness for school: A population-based, multi-level investigation
Social determinants of child health and well-being
This Editorial provides a critical review of the progress in social determinants of health research over the last two decades, suggesting new perspectives which may further our understanding of persistent social inequalities in health. It highlights the global significance of the Special Issue setting it in the context of the recently released WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health Final Report (CSDH 2008).The Editorial introduces indivi…
Paternal psychosocial work conditions and mental health outcomes: A case-control study
This study provides support to the tenet that being exposed to paternal work stress during childhood can have long lasting effects on the mental health of individuals
Socioeconomic factors, material inequalities, and perceived control in self-rated health: Cross-Sectional Data From Seven Post-Communist Countries
Socioeconomic factors, perceived control and self-reported health in Russia. A cross-sectional survey
Child development and long-term outcomes: A population health perspective and summary of successful interventions
Using an interactive framework of society and lifecourse to explain self-rated health in early adulthood
Development and Validation of the Middle Years Development Instrument (MDI): Assessing Children's Well-Being and Assets across Multiple Contexts
Few instruments provide reliable and valid data on child well-being and contextual assets during middle childhood, using children as informants. The authors developed a population-level, self-report measure of school-aged children's well-being and assets-the Middle Years Development Instrument (MDI)-and examined its reliability and validity. The MDI was designed to assess child well-being inside and outside of school on five dimensions: (1) Socia…
Concentrated affluence, concentrated disadvantage, and children's readiness for school: A population-based, multi-level investigation
Towards an epidemiological understanding of the effects of long-term institutional changes on population health: A case study of Canada versus the USA
Gender, work roles and psychosocial work characteristics as determinants of health
Creating a Population-based Linked Health Database: A New Resource for Health Services Research
Social differences in health: Life-cycle effects between ages 23 and 33 in the 1958 British birth cohort
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to determine whether social differences in health persist or widen during early adulthood. METHODS: A longitudinal follow-up of the 1958 British birth cohort was investigated, using social class at birth and six health measures at ages 23 and 33. A slope of inequality was estimated to represent social differences in health. RESULTS: Social gradients in health were evident by age 23: the prevalence of poor…
Well-Being in Middle Childhood: An Assets-Based Population-Level Research-to-Action Project
From Kindergarten readiness to fourth-grade assessment: Longitudinal analysis with linked population data
Effectiveness of community-directed diabetes prevention and control in a rural Aboriginal population in British Columbia, Canada
Do Neighbourhoods Influence the Readiness to Learn of Kindergarten Children in Vancouver? A Multilevel Analysis of Neighbourhood Effects
A growing body of literature has examined the effects of neighbourhood characteristics on child health and well-being and the mechanisms through which such effects may operate. Research investigating neighbourhood effects on children is based on the notion that individuals and families who live in a neighbourhood collectively create a social context that influences the developing child. In this paper we investigate the relationship between indivi…
Associations of teacher-rated social, emotional, and cognitive development in kindergarten to self-reported wellbeing, peer relations, and academic test scores in middle childhood
Health and rapid economic change in the late twentieth century
Aging and health care utilization: New evidence on old fallacies
Validation Theory and Research for a Population-Level Measure of Children's Development, Wellbeing, and School Readiness
East-West Life Expectancy Gap in Europe: Environmental and Non Environmental Determinants
These are the proceedings of a workshop on the determinants of the life expectancy difference between Eastern and Western Europe held in Surrey England March 20-22 1995. workshop focused on the following questions: to what extent has the life expectancy gap which has opened up between Central and Eastern Europe and The West since the mid-1960s been caused by the degradation of the physical and socioeconomic environment as opposed to unhealthy lif…
Early experiences matter: Lasting effect of concentrated disadvantage on children's language and cognitive outcomes
Social determinants of child health and well-being
This Editorial provides a critical review of the progress in social determinants of health research over the last two decades, suggesting new perspectives which may further our understanding of persistent social inequalities in health. It highlights the global significance of the Special Issue setting it in the context of the recently released WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health Final Report (CSDH 2008).The Editorial introduces indivi…
Unemployment and Mortality: A Comparative Study of Germany and the United States
Objectives. We examined the relationship between unemployment and mortality in Germany, a coordinated market economy, and the United States, a liberal market economy. Methods. We followed 2 working-age cohorts from the German Socio-economic Panel and the US Panel Study of Income Dynamics from 1984 to 2005. We defined unemployment as unemployed at the time of survey. We used discrete-time survival analysis, adjusting for potential confounders. Res…
Predictors and Outcomes of Household Food Insecurity Among Inner City Families with Preschool Children in Vancouver
Associations between child home language, gender, bilingualism and school readiness: A population-based study
Children’s Development in Kindergarten: A Multilevel, Population-Based Analysis of ESL and Gender Effects on Socioeconomic Gradients
Aging and health care utilization: New evidence on old fallacies
Flat on your back or back to your flat? Sources of increased hospital services utilization among the elderly in British Columbia
East-West Life Expectancy Gap in Europe
Child development and long-term outcomes: A population health perspective and summary of successful interventions
Mortality and cancer incidence among sawmill workers exposed to chlorophenate wood preservatives
OBJECTIVES: This study examined the association between exposure to chlorophenates and the risk of soft tissue sarcoma; non-Hodgkin's lymphoma; Hodgkin's disease; and cancers of the lung, nose, and nasopharynx. METHODS: A retrospective cohort study was conducted of 26487 workers employed for at least 1 year between 1950 and 1985 in 11 chlorophenate-using and 3 non-using sawmills in British Columbia, Canada. Exposures by job were ascertained with …
Social differences in health: Life-cycle effects between ages 23 and 33 in the 1958 British birth cohort
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to determine whether social differences in health persist or widen during early adulthood. METHODS: A longitudinal follow-up of the 1958 British birth cohort was investigated, using social class at birth and six health measures at ages 23 and 33. A slope of inequality was estimated to represent social differences in health. RESULTS: Social gradients in health were evident by age 23: the prevalence of poor…
Socioeconomic factors, perceived control and self-reported health in Russia. A cross-sectional survey
Creating a Population-based Linked Health Database: A New Resource for Health Services Research
Opportunities for a Broader Understanding of Work and Health: Multiple Uses of an Occupational Cohort Database
Le développement de l’enfant comme déterminant de la santé
East-West Life Expectancy Gap in Europe: Environmental and Non Environmental Determinants
These are the proceedings of a workshop on the determinants of the life expectancy difference between Eastern and Western Europe held in Surrey England March 20-22 1995. workshop focused on the following questions: to what extent has the life expectancy gap which has opened up between Central and Eastern Europe and The West since the mid-1960s been caused by the degradation of the physical and socioeconomic environment as opposed to unhealthy lif…
Socioeconomic status, mortality, and the development of cataract at a young age
Gender, work roles and psychosocial work characteristics as determinants of health
The Biological Embedding of Early Experience and Its Effects on Health in Adulthood
A bstract : Explanations of the socioeconomic gradient in health status must account for the observations that the gradient cuts across a wide range of disease processes and is capable of replicating itself on new disease processes as they emerge in society. Understanding this pattern requires an understanding of how human organisms can become generally vulnerable or resilient to disease over time: a huge collation task across different disciplin…
Effectiveness of community-directed diabetes prevention and control in a rural Aboriginal population in British Columbia, Canada
The relationship between unemployment, technological change and psychosocial work conditions in British Columbia sawmills
In the early 1980s, the sawmill sector in British Columbia (BC), Canada experienced economic recession which was followed by industrial restructuring in many mills. This is an investigation of the relationship between unemployment, which occurred in the recession and the new psychosocial and physical work conditions in restructured workplaces using a cohort of approximately 29,000 sawmill workers in 14 BC sawmills. The purpose of this investigati…
Own education, current conditions, parental material circumstances, and risk of myocardial infarction in a former communist country
OBJECTIVE: To study the association between own education, adult and parental circumstances and the risk of myocardial infarction in a former communist country. DESIGN: Population based case-control study. SETTING: General population of five districts of the Czech Republic in the age group 25-64 years. PARTICIPANTS: Random sample of population (938 men and 1048 women, response rate 77%) served as controls to 282 male and 80 female cases of non-fa…
Social change, market forces and health
Health and rapid economic change in the late twentieth century
Socioeconomic factors, material inequalities, and perceived control in self-rated health: Cross-Sectional Data From Seven Post-Communist Countries
Effects of de-industrialization on unemployment, re-employment, and work conditions in a manufacturing workforce
This study shows that future health studies should pay particular attention to long-term employees in manufacturing who may have gone through de-industrialization resulting in exposures to a combination of sustained job insecurity, cyclical unemployment, and adverse physical and psychosocial work conditions
Predictors of Low Back Pain Onset in a Prospective British Study
Objectives. This study examined predictors of low back pain onset in a British birth cohort. Methods. Univariate and multivariate analyses focused on individuals who experienced onset of low back pain at 32 to 33 years of age (n= 571) and individuals who were pain free (n = 5210). Participants were members of the 1958 British birth cohort. Results. Incident pain was elevated among those with psychological distress at 23 years of age (adjusted odd…
Using an interactive framework of society and lifecourse to explain self-rated health in early adulthood
Neighborhood Income and Physical and Social Disorder in Canada: Associations with Young Children's Competencies
This study examined the association of census level, observational, and parent–reported neighborhood characteristics on the verbal and behavioral competencies of a national sample of Canadian preschoolers (N= 3,350). Children's verbal ability scores were positively associated with residing in neighborhoods with affluent residents and negatively associated with residing in neighborhoods with poor residents and in neighborhoods with low cohesion, e…
A comparison between the effort-reward imbalance and demand control models
Future work should explore the combined effects of these two models of psychosocial stress at work on health more thoroughly
Medicine (38 works) · Demography (32 works) · Population (32 works) · Sociology (31 works) · Psychology (30 works) · Demography (23 works) · Socioeconomic status (19 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (18 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (17 works) · Developmental psychology (16 works)