Joan R Bloom
Biographic Data
| ID | 282731 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joan R Bloom |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joan R |
| FAMILY NAME | Bloom |
| SIGNATURE | BLOOM J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 152 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
In Memoriam: Carol D’Onofrio, DrPH, MPH (1936–2020)
Developing a Culturally Competent Faith-Based Framework to Promote Breast Cancer Screening Among Afghan Immigrant Women
Community-Based Participatory Research Adds Value to the National Cancer Institute’s Research Portfolio
Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is the core research approach used by all 23 Community Network Program Centers (
Podcast Interview Transcript
Podcast Interview Transcript Erin Kobetz, Joan Bloom, Irma Robbins, and Kim Engelman Listen to Podcast Welcome to Progress in Community Health Partnerships’ latest episode our Beyond the Manuscript podcast. In each volume of the Journal, the editors select one article for our Beyond the Manuscript post-study interview with the authors. Beyond the Manuscript provides the authors the opportunity to tell listeners what they would want to know about …
Targeting and Tailoring Health Communications in Breast Screening Interventions
Each CNP program targeted diverse URM women and, using participatory approaches, tailored a range of interventions to promote breast cancer screening. Although all projects shared the same goal outcome, each program tailored their varying interventions to match the target community needs, demonstrating the importance and value of these strategies in reducing breast cancer disparities
Cancer Screening in Public Health Clinics: The Importance of Clinic Utilization
OBJECTIVES: To determine how screening for breast and cervical cancer in public health clinics was associated with overall clinic utilization. METHODS: Evidence of screening and clinic visits between June 1989 and May 1992 was obtained by medical record audit for a random sample of 1825 women aged 40 to 75 attending eight public health clinics in the San Francisco Bay Area. RESULTS: With an average number of visits (4 per year), women who did not…
Sources of support and the physical and mental well-being of young women with breast cancer
Nurse staffing patterns and hospital efficiency in the United States
Organizational Demography and Turnover: An Examination of Multiform and Nonlinear Heterogeneity
This paper advances the study of organizational demography and turnover by testing propositions derived from Blau's theory of heterogeneity and social structure. In a sample of 398 U.S. community hospitals, voluntary nursing turnover was examined in relation to three demographic dimensions-educational preparation, tenure and employment status-among nurse staff. The form of relationships between turnover and heterogeneity was specified to test whe…
Cancer screening among African-American women: Their use of tests and social support
This study examined associations between social ties (as measured by the Social Network Index), instrumental and emotional support, and the use of three female cancer screening tests: mammography, cervical smear, and clinical breast examination. Data were taken from a household survey of 670 African-American women living in northern California in 1986. In multiple logistic regression models, Berkman's index was associated with increased use of ma…
An Analysis of Capitation for Mental Health Services
The major impetus for health care reform clearly seems to be the desire to contain the cost of health care. One of the major cost‐containment methods proposed is capitation. Capitation poses specific problems when applied to mental health services delivery. This article discusses several of the major issues pertaining to the utility of capitation in mental health, discusses on‐going capitation efforts, and provides an evaluation of capitation pro…
Emotional Support Following Cancer: A Test of the Stigma and Social Activity Hypotheses
Reports of changes in emotional support following surgery for breast cancer can be attributed to one of two factors: (1) the stigma associated with cancer, or (2) illness-imposed restrictions in one's activities. These explanations were assessed using data from a longitudinal study of women, following their surgical treatment for early breast cancer (N = 145), gallbladder disease (N = 90), benign breast disease (N = 87), or no surgery (N = 90). M…
The effect of the social organization of work on the voluntary turnover rate of hospital nurses in the United States
Smoking, social support, and hassles in an urban African-American community
BACKGROUND. Despite public health efforts, the prevalence of smoking among African Americans remains high. The determinants of smoking behavior in this population must be elucidated so that interventions can be better targeted and more effective. METHODS. As part of a prospective community intervention trial to reduce cancer mortality, we conducted a random household survey of 1137 African-American adults in San Francisco and Oakland between Nove…
The relationship of social support and health
Cancer awareness and secondary prevention practices in Black Americans: Implications for intervention
Bloom, Joan R. PhD1; Hayes, William A. PhD2; Saunders, Frances MPH3; Flatt, Sylvia MPH4 Author Information
Collective Bargaining in Hospitals: An Organizational and Environmental Analysis
The adoption of collective bargaining agreements in hospitals is conceptualized as resulting from conditions within the hospital that promote conflict and from social, legal and political constraints external to the hospital. It was predicted that hospitals with collective bargaining agreements would be characterized by greater (1) structural complexity, (2) environmental resource change, (3) environmental slack, (4) regulatory intensity, and (5)…
The relationship of two dimensions of social support to the psychological well-being and social functioning of women with advanced breast cancer
Group Therapy and Hypnosis Reduce Metastatic Breast Carcinoma Pain
The pain and mood disturbance of 54 women with metastatic carcinoma of the breast were studied over the course of one year. A random sample was offered weekly group therapy during the year, with or without self-hypnosis training directed toward enhancing their competence at mastering pain and stress related to cancer. Both treatment groups demonstrated significantly less self-rated pain sensation (t = 2.5 p less than 0.02) and suffering (t = 2.17…
Social support, accommodation to stress and adjustment to breast cancer
Team Nursing: Professional Coordination or Bureaucratic Control
Hypertension labeling and sense of well-being
Seventy-one individuals were mislabeled on the basis of a prevalence survey (N = 1,031) conducted in low-income community. They were told by a physician that they were hypertensive but were later judged normotensive on the basis of three blood pressure measures. None of these persons was taking antihypertensive medication or under medical care. Compared to the total normotensive sample, the mislabeled group reported more depressive symptoms (P = …
Status characteristics, leadership consensus and decision-making among nurses
Status characteristics, leadership consensus and decision-making among nurses
Cooperative Groups: From Theory to Practice
Additional informationNotes on contributorsGeorge M. SchunckeGeorge M Schunke teaches in the Department of General Teacher Education at the University of Florida, Gainesville, and Joan R. Bloom teaches in the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley.Joan R. BloomGeorge M Schunke teaches in the Department of General Teacher Education at the University of Florida, Gainesville, and Joan R. Bloom teaches in the School of Publ…
Social support, accommodation to stress and adjustment to breast cancer
The relationship of two dimensions of social support to the psychological well-being and social functioning of women with advanced breast cancer
The relationship of social support and health
Sources of support and the physical and mental well-being of young women with breast cancer
Smoking, social support, and hassles in an urban African-American community
BACKGROUND. Despite public health efforts, the prevalence of smoking among African Americans remains high. The determinants of smoking behavior in this population must be elucidated so that interventions can be better targeted and more effective. METHODS. As part of a prospective community intervention trial to reduce cancer mortality, we conducted a random household survey of 1137 African-American adults in San Francisco and Oakland between Nove…
Hypertension labeling and sense of well-being
Seventy-one individuals were mislabeled on the basis of a prevalence survey (N = 1,031) conducted in low-income community. They were told by a physician that they were hypertensive but were later judged normotensive on the basis of three blood pressure measures. None of these persons was taking antihypertensive medication or under medical care. Compared to the total normotensive sample, the mislabeled group reported more depressive symptoms (P = …
Emotional Support Following Cancer: A Test of the Stigma and Social Activity Hypotheses
Reports of changes in emotional support following surgery for breast cancer can be attributed to one of two factors: (1) the stigma associated with cancer, or (2) illness-imposed restrictions in one's activities. These explanations were assessed using data from a longitudinal study of women, following their surgical treatment for early breast cancer (N = 145), gallbladder disease (N = 90), benign breast disease (N = 87), or no surgery (N = 90). M…
Cancer screening among African-American women: Their use of tests and social support
This study examined associations between social ties (as measured by the Social Network Index), instrumental and emotional support, and the use of three female cancer screening tests: mammography, cervical smear, and clinical breast examination. Data were taken from a household survey of 670 African-American women living in northern California in 1986. In multiple logistic regression models, Berkman's index was associated with increased use of ma…
The effect of the social organization of work on the voluntary turnover rate of hospital nurses in the United States
Organizational Demography and Turnover: An Examination of Multiform and Nonlinear Heterogeneity
This paper advances the study of organizational demography and turnover by testing propositions derived from Blau's theory of heterogeneity and social structure. In a sample of 398 U.S. community hospitals, voluntary nursing turnover was examined in relation to three demographic dimensions-educational preparation, tenure and employment status-among nurse staff. The form of relationships between turnover and heterogeneity was specified to test whe…
Targeting and Tailoring Health Communications in Breast Screening Interventions
Each CNP program targeted diverse URM women and, using participatory approaches, tailored a range of interventions to promote breast cancer screening. Although all projects shared the same goal outcome, each program tailored their varying interventions to match the target community needs, demonstrating the importance and value of these strategies in reducing breast cancer disparities
Nurse staffing patterns and hospital efficiency in the United States
Team Nursing: Professional Coordination or Bureaucratic Control
Cooperative Groups: From Theory to Practice
Additional informationNotes on contributorsGeorge M. SchunckeGeorge M Schunke teaches in the Department of General Teacher Education at the University of Florida, Gainesville, and Joan R. Bloom teaches in the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley.Joan R. BloomGeorge M Schunke teaches in the Department of General Teacher Education at the University of Florida, Gainesville, and Joan R. Bloom teaches in the School of Publ…
Status characteristics, leadership consensus and decision-making among nurses
Status characteristics, leadership consensus and decision-making among nurses
Hypertension labeling and sense of well-being
Seventy-one individuals were mislabeled on the basis of a prevalence survey (N = 1,031) conducted in low-income community. They were told by a physician that they were hypertensive but were later judged normotensive on the basis of three blood pressure measures. None of these persons was taking antihypertensive medication or under medical care. Compared to the total normotensive sample, the mislabeled group reported more depressive symptoms (P = …
Social support, accommodation to stress and adjustment to breast cancer
Team Nursing: Professional Coordination or Bureaucratic Control
Group Therapy and Hypnosis Reduce Metastatic Breast Carcinoma Pain
The pain and mood disturbance of 54 women with metastatic carcinoma of the breast were studied over the course of one year. A random sample was offered weekly group therapy during the year, with or without self-hypnosis training directed toward enhancing their competence at mastering pain and stress related to cancer. Both treatment groups demonstrated significantly less self-rated pain sensation (t = 2.5 p less than 0.02) and suffering (t = 2.17…
The relationship of two dimensions of social support to the psychological well-being and social functioning of women with advanced breast cancer
Cancer awareness and secondary prevention practices in Black Americans: Implications for intervention
Bloom, Joan R. PhD1; Hayes, William A. PhD2; Saunders, Frances MPH3; Flatt, Sylvia MPH4 Author Information
Collective Bargaining in Hospitals: An Organizational and Environmental Analysis
The adoption of collective bargaining agreements in hospitals is conceptualized as resulting from conditions within the hospital that promote conflict and from social, legal and political constraints external to the hospital. It was predicted that hospitals with collective bargaining agreements would be characterized by greater (1) structural complexity, (2) environmental resource change, (3) environmental slack, (4) regulatory intensity, and (5)…
The relationship of social support and health
Smoking, social support, and hassles in an urban African-American community
BACKGROUND. Despite public health efforts, the prevalence of smoking among African Americans remains high. The determinants of smoking behavior in this population must be elucidated so that interventions can be better targeted and more effective. METHODS. As part of a prospective community intervention trial to reduce cancer mortality, we conducted a random household survey of 1137 African-American adults in San Francisco and Oakland between Nove…
The effect of the social organization of work on the voluntary turnover rate of hospital nurses in the United States
Cancer screening among African-American women: Their use of tests and social support
This study examined associations between social ties (as measured by the Social Network Index), instrumental and emotional support, and the use of three female cancer screening tests: mammography, cervical smear, and clinical breast examination. Data were taken from a household survey of 670 African-American women living in northern California in 1986. In multiple logistic regression models, Berkman's index was associated with increased use of ma…
An Analysis of Capitation for Mental Health Services
The major impetus for health care reform clearly seems to be the desire to contain the cost of health care. One of the major cost‐containment methods proposed is capitation. Capitation poses specific problems when applied to mental health services delivery. This article discusses several of the major issues pertaining to the utility of capitation in mental health, discusses on‐going capitation efforts, and provides an evaluation of capitation pro…
Emotional Support Following Cancer: A Test of the Stigma and Social Activity Hypotheses
Reports of changes in emotional support following surgery for breast cancer can be attributed to one of two factors: (1) the stigma associated with cancer, or (2) illness-imposed restrictions in one's activities. These explanations were assessed using data from a longitudinal study of women, following their surgical treatment for early breast cancer (N = 145), gallbladder disease (N = 90), benign breast disease (N = 87), or no surgery (N = 90). M…
Organizational Demography and Turnover: An Examination of Multiform and Nonlinear Heterogeneity
This paper advances the study of organizational demography and turnover by testing propositions derived from Blau's theory of heterogeneity and social structure. In a sample of 398 U.S. community hospitals, voluntary nursing turnover was examined in relation to three demographic dimensions-educational preparation, tenure and employment status-among nurse staff. The form of relationships between turnover and heterogeneity was specified to test whe…
Nurse staffing patterns and hospital efficiency in the United States
Cancer Screening in Public Health Clinics: The Importance of Clinic Utilization
OBJECTIVES: To determine how screening for breast and cervical cancer in public health clinics was associated with overall clinic utilization. METHODS: Evidence of screening and clinic visits between June 1989 and May 1992 was obtained by medical record audit for a random sample of 1825 women aged 40 to 75 attending eight public health clinics in the San Francisco Bay Area. RESULTS: With an average number of visits (4 per year), women who did not…
Sources of support and the physical and mental well-being of young women with breast cancer
Developing a Culturally Competent Faith-Based Framework to Promote Breast Cancer Screening Among Afghan Immigrant Women
Community-Based Participatory Research Adds Value to the National Cancer Institute’s Research Portfolio
Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is the core research approach used by all 23 Community Network Program Centers (
Podcast Interview Transcript
Podcast Interview Transcript Erin Kobetz, Joan Bloom, Irma Robbins, and Kim Engelman Listen to Podcast Welcome to Progress in Community Health Partnerships’ latest episode our Beyond the Manuscript podcast. In each volume of the Journal, the editors select one article for our Beyond the Manuscript post-study interview with the authors. Beyond the Manuscript provides the authors the opportunity to tell listeners what they would want to know about …
Targeting and Tailoring Health Communications in Breast Screening Interventions
Each CNP program targeted diverse URM women and, using participatory approaches, tailored a range of interventions to promote breast cancer screening. Although all projects shared the same goal outcome, each program tailored their varying interventions to match the target community needs, demonstrating the importance and value of these strategies in reducing breast cancer disparities
In Memoriam: Carol D’Onofrio, DrPH, MPH (1936–2020)
Medicine (21 works) · Psychology (16 works) · Cancer (10 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Nursing (9 works) · Breast cancer (8 works) · Gerontology (8 works) · Psychiatry (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Social support (7 works)