John M Benson
Biographic Data
| ID | 308916 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John M Benson |
| GIVEN NAMES | John M |
| FAMILY NAME | Benson |
| SIGNATURE | BENSON J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Health Policy and Management Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Boston Massachusetts |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8375-5075 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 325 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
I am a normal Asian American?”: Diverse ways that Asian Americans respond to an open-ended question about their racial identification
Self-administered mindfulness interventions reduce stress in a large, randomized controlled multi-site study
Mindfulness witnessed a substantial popularity surge in the past decade, especially as digitally self-administered interventions became available at relatively low costs. Yet, it is uncertain whether they effectively help reduce stress. In a preregistered (OSF https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/UF4JZ; retrospective registration at ClinicalTrials.gov NCT06308744) multi-site study (nsites = 37, nparticipants = 2,239, 70.4% women, Mage = 22.4, s.d.age …
Author Correction: Self-administered mindfulness interventions reduce stress in a large, randomized controlled multi-site study
Negation bias in communicating Asian American stereotypes
Previous literature demonstrates how the use of negations can be used to communicate stereotypic expectations (e.g., the professor is not smart , instead of stupid ). In light of the COVID‐19 pandemic and increased discrimination against Asian Americans, we tested whether the negation bias is used to communicate stereotypes about Asian Americans. Participants were provided with stereotype‐consistent, stereotype‐inconsistent, and neutral scenarios…
The Unseen Picture: Issues with Health Care, Discrimination, Police and Safety, and Housing Experienced by Native American Populations in Rural America
PURPOSE: Despite increased national attention to improving rural health, rural Native American populations face unique problems that are often unseen in aggregate research on the rural United States. The objective of this study was to examine rural Native Americans' experiences with serious problems across domains important to health, using rural Whites as a comparison group. METHODS: Using 2 probability-based national telephone surveys (2017 and…
Polarized Public Opinion About Public Health During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Political Divides and Future Implications
This Viewpoint examines the stark differences in how Democrats and Republicans viewed the role of public health during the COVID-19 pandemic to understand the implications for the future of public health
Trust in Medicine, the Health System & Public Health
This essay reviews more than forty years of public opinion polling to look at trust in medicine, the health system, and public health. We use polling data to explore the reasons for the decline and current level of public trust in leaders of medicine and public health, including underlying forces such as the decline in trust in other institutions. Except for the military, none of the efforts to improve public trust in various institutions have be…
Will the 2020 Election Resolve the Question of Medicare for All
Political news coverage might lead one to believe that the 2020 election will settle the question of whether the country will move toward Medicare for All. This is, however, unlikely to be the case
Discrimination in the United States: Experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Americans
OBJECTIVE: To examine reported experiences of discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) adults in the United States, which broadly contribute to poor health outcomes. DATA SOURCE AND STUDY DESIGN: Data came from a national, probability-based telephone survey of US adults, including 489 LGBTQ adults (282 non-Hispanic whites and 201 racial/ethnic minorities), conducted January-April 2017. METHODS: We calculated t…
Discrimination in the United States: Experiences of Native Americans
OBJECTIVE: To examine reported racial discrimination and harassment against Native Americans, which broadly contribute to poor health outcomes. DATA SOURCE AND STUDY DESIGN: Data come from a nationally representative, probability-based telephone survey including 342 Native American and 902 white US adults, conducted January-April 2017. METHODS: We calculated the percent of Native Americans reporting discrimination in several domains, including he…
Discrimination in the United States: Experiences of Asian Americans
Asians in the United States experience discrimination interpersonally and across many institutional settings, including housing and health care. South Asians may be especially vulnerable to forms of institutional discrimination and microaggressions. These results illustrate a need for greater investigation into the unique experiences of Asian subgroups and greater protections for groups at higher risk of discrimination, within health care and bey…
Methodology of the Discrimination in the United States survey
Even the small selection of results presented in this article as examples of survey measures show a pattern of substantial reported discrimination against all six groups studied
Discrimination in the United States: Experiences of Latinos
Latinos in the United States report experiencing widespread discrimination in health care and other areas of their lives, at significantly higher levels than whites. Being born in the United States and earning a college degree are not protective against discrimination, suggesting that further health and social policy efforts to eliminate discrimination are needed
Discrimination in the United States: Experiences of black Americans
Objective To examine experiences of racial discrimination among black adults in the United States, which broadly contribute to their poor health outcomes. Data Source and Study Design Data come from a nationally representative, probability‐based telephone survey including 802 non‐Hispanic black and a comparison group of 902 non‐Hispanic white US adults, conducted January–April 2017. Methods We calculated the percent of blacks reporting discrimina…
Public Trust in Physicians — U.S. Medicine in International Perspective
Among 29 industrialized countries, the United States ranks high in patients' satisfaction with their own care but low in public trust in the country's physicians. If the U.S. medical profession wants to influence health policy decisions, it must improve public trust.
The Perspectives of Six Latino Heritage Groups About Their Health Care
What is driving people’s dissatisfaction with their own health care in 17 Latin American countries
Background A number of expert reports have pointed to serious problems with health care in many Latin American countries and argued the need to reform and improve health‐care systems. In addition, the Ministers of Health of the Americas have stated that health systems should be accountable to citizens. Objective This paper examines, in each of 17 Latin American countries, public dissatisfaction with the health care to which people have access, th…
Public trust in the Spanish health‐care system
Background Fifteen years ago, public opinion surveys in Spain showed substantial dissatisfaction with the health‐care system. Since that time, health‐care in Spain has undergone significant changes, including a decentralization of the system, an increase in spending and a change in the way the system is financed. Objective This study examines how Spanish citizens rate the performance of their health system today, both as compared with other secto…
Disparities In Health: Perspectives Of A Multi-Ethnic, Multi-Racial America
This 2006 survey of 4,157 randomly selected U.S. adults compared perceptions of health care disparities among fourteen racial and ethnic groups to those of whites. Findings suggest that many ethnic minority groups view their health care situations differently and, often, more negatively than whites. A substantial proportion perceived discrimination in receiving health care, and many felt that they would not receive the best care if they were sick…
Experiences of Hurricane Katrina Evacuees in Houston Shelters: Implications for Future Planning
Objectives. To shed light on how the public health community can promote the recovery of Hurricane Katrina victims and protect people in future disasters, we examined the experiences of evacuees housed in Houston area shelters 2 weeks after the hurricane. Methods. A survey was conducted September 10 through 12, 2005, with 680 randomly selected respondents who were evacuated to Houston from the Gulf Coast as a result of Hurricane Katrina. Intervie…
Health News and the American Public, 1996–2002
The Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health Health News Index, a series of 39 surveys with a total of over 42,000 respondents from 1996 through 2002, measures how closely Americans follow major health stories in the news and what they understand about the issues covered in those stories. On average, four in ten adults reported following health news stories closely. The public reports paying the most attention to stories about pub…
Health Information, The Internet, And The Digital Divide: Despite recent improvements, Americans' access to the Internet—and to the growing body of health information there—remains uneven.
Through an analysis of recent data on adults' and children's computer use and experiences, this DataWatch shows that use of computers and the Internet is widespread and that significant percentages of the public are already using the Internet to get health information. The surveys also show that the Internet is already a useful vehicle for reaching large numbers of lower-income, less-educated, and minority Americans. However, a substantial digita…
Trends: End-of-Life Issues
Journal Article Trends: End-of-Life Issues Get access JOHN M. BENSON JOHN M. BENSON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 63, Issue 2, August 2001, Pages 263–277, https://doi.org/10.1086/297716 Published: 01 August 2001
Whatever happened to politicians' concerns about the nation's uninsured
Whatever happened to politicians' concerns about the nation's uninsured? R J Blendon, and J M BensonCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.88.3.345 Published Online: August 30, 2011
Bridging the Gap Between the Public's and Economists' Views of the Economy
This paper reports the results of two parallel 1996 surveys, one of economists, one of the public. It finds that the public has a bleaker picture of what has happened economically to the average family and is more pessimistic than most economists about the intermediate future. The public cites different reasons than economists do for why the economy is not doing better. Also, individuals' perceptions of their own economic experiences yield a diff…
Discrimination in the United States: Experiences of black Americans
Objective To examine experiences of racial discrimination among black adults in the United States, which broadly contribute to their poor health outcomes. Data Source and Study Design Data come from a nationally representative, probability‐based telephone survey including 802 non‐Hispanic black and a comparison group of 902 non‐Hispanic white US adults, conducted January–April 2017. Methods We calculated the percent of blacks reporting discrimina…
Experiences of Hurricane Katrina Evacuees in Houston Shelters: Implications for Future Planning
Objectives. To shed light on how the public health community can promote the recovery of Hurricane Katrina victims and protect people in future disasters, we examined the experiences of evacuees housed in Houston area shelters 2 weeks after the hurricane. Methods. A survey was conducted September 10 through 12, 2005, with 680 randomly selected respondents who were evacuated to Houston from the Gulf Coast as a result of Hurricane Katrina. Intervie…
Discrimination in the United States: Experiences of Latinos
Latinos in the United States report experiencing widespread discrimination in health care and other areas of their lives, at significantly higher levels than whites. Being born in the United States and earning a college degree are not protective against discrimination, suggesting that further health and social policy efforts to eliminate discrimination are needed
Bridging the Gap Between the Public's and Economists' Views of the Economy
This paper reports the results of two parallel 1996 surveys, one of economists, one of the public. It finds that the public has a bleaker picture of what has happened economically to the average family and is more pessimistic than most economists about the intermediate future. The public cites different reasons than economists do for why the economy is not doing better. Also, individuals' perceptions of their own economic experiences yield a diff…
Health News and the American Public, 1996–2002
The Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health Health News Index, a series of 39 surveys with a total of over 42,000 respondents from 1996 through 2002, measures how closely Americans follow major health stories in the news and what they understand about the issues covered in those stories. On average, four in ten adults reported following health news stories closely. The public reports paying the most attention to stories about pub…
Discrimination in the United States: Experiences of Asian Americans
Asians in the United States experience discrimination interpersonally and across many institutional settings, including housing and health care. South Asians may be especially vulnerable to forms of institutional discrimination and microaggressions. These results illustrate a need for greater investigation into the unique experiences of Asian subgroups and greater protections for groups at higher risk of discrimination, within health care and bey…
Disparities In Health: Perspectives Of A Multi-Ethnic, Multi-Racial America
This 2006 survey of 4,157 randomly selected U.S. adults compared perceptions of health care disparities among fourteen racial and ethnic groups to those of whites. Findings suggest that many ethnic minority groups view their health care situations differently and, often, more negatively than whites. A substantial proportion perceived discrimination in receiving health care, and many felt that they would not receive the best care if they were sick…
The Polls: U.S. Military Intervention
Journal Article The Polls: U.S. Military Intervention Get access JOHN M. BENSON JOHN M. BENSON John M. Benson is a Graduate Assistant at the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research and a doctoral student in history at The University of Connecticut. He wishes to express his appreciation to Marilyn Potter, Lois Timms, Sherryl Post, and Helen Huff of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acad…
Trends: End-of-Life Issues
Journal Article Trends: End-of-Life Issues Get access JOHN M. BENSON JOHN M. BENSON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 63, Issue 2, August 2001, Pages 263–277, https://doi.org/10.1086/297716 Published: 01 August 2001
How Do Americans Want to Die? A Factorial Vignette Survey of Public Attitudes about End-of-Life Medical Decision-Making
Trends: Guns
Journal Article THE POLLS—TRENDS: GUNS Get access JOHN T. YOUNG, JOHN T. YOUNG JOHN T. YOUNG is assistant director of the Harvard Program on Public Opinion and Health/Social Policy at the Harvard School of Public Health, and a doctoral candidate in political science at Columbia University, DAVID HEMENWAY is professor at the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, and deputy director of the Harvard Injury Contr…
The Polls: A Rebirth of Religion
Journal Article The Polls: A Rebirth of Religion? Get access JOHN M. BENSON JOHN M. BENSON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 45, Issue 4, WINTER 1981, Pages 576–585, https://doi.org/10.1086/268692 Published: 01 January 1981
Trust in Medicine, the Health System & Public Health
This essay reviews more than forty years of public opinion polling to look at trust in medicine, the health system, and public health. We use polling data to explore the reasons for the decline and current level of public trust in leaders of medicine and public health, including underlying forces such as the decline in trust in other institutions. Except for the military, none of the efforts to improve public trust in various institutions have be…
Methodology of the Discrimination in the United States survey
Even the small selection of results presented in this article as examples of survey measures show a pattern of substantial reported discrimination against all six groups studied
Whatever happened to politicians' concerns about the nation's uninsured
Whatever happened to politicians' concerns about the nation's uninsured? R J Blendon, and J M BensonCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.88.3.345 Published Online: August 30, 2011
The Polls: A Rebirth of Religion
Journal Article The Polls: A Rebirth of Religion? Get access JOHN M. BENSON JOHN M. BENSON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 45, Issue 4, WINTER 1981, Pages 576–585, https://doi.org/10.1086/268692 Published: 01 January 1981
The Polls: U.S. Military Intervention
Journal Article The Polls: U.S. Military Intervention Get access JOHN M. BENSON JOHN M. BENSON John M. Benson is a Graduate Assistant at the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research and a doctoral student in history at The University of Connecticut. He wishes to express his appreciation to Marilyn Potter, Lois Timms, Sherryl Post, and Helen Huff of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acad…
Trends: Guns
Journal Article THE POLLS—TRENDS: GUNS Get access JOHN T. YOUNG, JOHN T. YOUNG JOHN T. YOUNG is assistant director of the Harvard Program on Public Opinion and Health/Social Policy at the Harvard School of Public Health, and a doctoral candidate in political science at Columbia University, DAVID HEMENWAY is professor at the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, and deputy director of the Harvard Injury Contr…
Bridging the Gap Between the Public's and Economists' Views of the Economy
This paper reports the results of two parallel 1996 surveys, one of economists, one of the public. It finds that the public has a bleaker picture of what has happened economically to the average family and is more pessimistic than most economists about the intermediate future. The public cites different reasons than economists do for why the economy is not doing better. Also, individuals' perceptions of their own economic experiences yield a diff…
How Do Americans Want to Die? A Factorial Vignette Survey of Public Attitudes about End-of-Life Medical Decision-Making
Whatever happened to politicians' concerns about the nation's uninsured
Whatever happened to politicians' concerns about the nation's uninsured? R J Blendon, and J M BensonCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.88.3.345 Published Online: August 30, 2011
Trends: End-of-Life Issues
Journal Article Trends: End-of-Life Issues Get access JOHN M. BENSON JOHN M. BENSON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 63, Issue 2, August 2001, Pages 263–277, https://doi.org/10.1086/297716 Published: 01 August 2001
Health Information, The Internet, And The Digital Divide: Despite recent improvements, Americans' access to the Internet—and to the growing body of health information there—remains uneven.
Through an analysis of recent data on adults' and children's computer use and experiences, this DataWatch shows that use of computers and the Internet is widespread and that significant percentages of the public are already using the Internet to get health information. The surveys also show that the Internet is already a useful vehicle for reaching large numbers of lower-income, less-educated, and minority Americans. However, a substantial digita…
Health News and the American Public, 1996–2002
The Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health Health News Index, a series of 39 surveys with a total of over 42,000 respondents from 1996 through 2002, measures how closely Americans follow major health stories in the news and what they understand about the issues covered in those stories. On average, four in ten adults reported following health news stories closely. The public reports paying the most attention to stories about pub…
Experiences of Hurricane Katrina Evacuees in Houston Shelters: Implications for Future Planning
Objectives. To shed light on how the public health community can promote the recovery of Hurricane Katrina victims and protect people in future disasters, we examined the experiences of evacuees housed in Houston area shelters 2 weeks after the hurricane. Methods. A survey was conducted September 10 through 12, 2005, with 680 randomly selected respondents who were evacuated to Houston from the Gulf Coast as a result of Hurricane Katrina. Intervie…
Public trust in the Spanish health‐care system
Background Fifteen years ago, public opinion surveys in Spain showed substantial dissatisfaction with the health‐care system. Since that time, health‐care in Spain has undergone significant changes, including a decentralization of the system, an increase in spending and a change in the way the system is financed. Objective This study examines how Spanish citizens rate the performance of their health system today, both as compared with other secto…
Disparities In Health: Perspectives Of A Multi-Ethnic, Multi-Racial America
This 2006 survey of 4,157 randomly selected U.S. adults compared perceptions of health care disparities among fourteen racial and ethnic groups to those of whites. Findings suggest that many ethnic minority groups view their health care situations differently and, often, more negatively than whites. A substantial proportion perceived discrimination in receiving health care, and many felt that they would not receive the best care if they were sick…
What is driving people’s dissatisfaction with their own health care in 17 Latin American countries
Background A number of expert reports have pointed to serious problems with health care in many Latin American countries and argued the need to reform and improve health‐care systems. In addition, the Ministers of Health of the Americas have stated that health systems should be accountable to citizens. Objective This paper examines, in each of 17 Latin American countries, public dissatisfaction with the health care to which people have access, th…
Public Trust in Physicians — U.S. Medicine in International Perspective
Among 29 industrialized countries, the United States ranks high in patients' satisfaction with their own care but low in public trust in the country's physicians. If the U.S. medical profession wants to influence health policy decisions, it must improve public trust.
The Perspectives of Six Latino Heritage Groups About Their Health Care
Discrimination in the United States: Experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Americans
OBJECTIVE: To examine reported experiences of discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) adults in the United States, which broadly contribute to poor health outcomes. DATA SOURCE AND STUDY DESIGN: Data came from a national, probability-based telephone survey of US adults, including 489 LGBTQ adults (282 non-Hispanic whites and 201 racial/ethnic minorities), conducted January-April 2017. METHODS: We calculated t…
Discrimination in the United States: Experiences of Native Americans
OBJECTIVE: To examine reported racial discrimination and harassment against Native Americans, which broadly contribute to poor health outcomes. DATA SOURCE AND STUDY DESIGN: Data come from a nationally representative, probability-based telephone survey including 342 Native American and 902 white US adults, conducted January-April 2017. METHODS: We calculated the percent of Native Americans reporting discrimination in several domains, including he…
Discrimination in the United States: Experiences of Asian Americans
Asians in the United States experience discrimination interpersonally and across many institutional settings, including housing and health care. South Asians may be especially vulnerable to forms of institutional discrimination and microaggressions. These results illustrate a need for greater investigation into the unique experiences of Asian subgroups and greater protections for groups at higher risk of discrimination, within health care and bey…
Methodology of the Discrimination in the United States survey
Even the small selection of results presented in this article as examples of survey measures show a pattern of substantial reported discrimination against all six groups studied
Discrimination in the United States: Experiences of Latinos
Latinos in the United States report experiencing widespread discrimination in health care and other areas of their lives, at significantly higher levels than whites. Being born in the United States and earning a college degree are not protective against discrimination, suggesting that further health and social policy efforts to eliminate discrimination are needed
Discrimination in the United States: Experiences of black Americans
Objective To examine experiences of racial discrimination among black adults in the United States, which broadly contribute to their poor health outcomes. Data Source and Study Design Data come from a nationally representative, probability‐based telephone survey including 802 non‐Hispanic black and a comparison group of 902 non‐Hispanic white US adults, conducted January–April 2017. Methods We calculated the percent of blacks reporting discrimina…
Will the 2020 Election Resolve the Question of Medicare for All
Political news coverage might lead one to believe that the 2020 election will settle the question of whether the country will move toward Medicare for All. This is, however, unlikely to be the case
The Unseen Picture: Issues with Health Care, Discrimination, Police and Safety, and Housing Experienced by Native American Populations in Rural America
PURPOSE: Despite increased national attention to improving rural health, rural Native American populations face unique problems that are often unseen in aggregate research on the rural United States. The objective of this study was to examine rural Native Americans' experiences with serious problems across domains important to health, using rural Whites as a comparison group. METHODS: Using 2 probability-based national telephone surveys (2017 and…
Polarized Public Opinion About Public Health During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Political Divides and Future Implications
This Viewpoint examines the stark differences in how Democrats and Republicans viewed the role of public health during the COVID-19 pandemic to understand the implications for the future of public health
Trust in Medicine, the Health System & Public Health
This essay reviews more than forty years of public opinion polling to look at trust in medicine, the health system, and public health. We use polling data to explore the reasons for the decline and current level of public trust in leaders of medicine and public health, including underlying forces such as the decline in trust in other institutions. Except for the military, none of the efforts to improve public trust in various institutions have be…
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