Victor J Schoenbach
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 315833 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Victor J Schoenbach |
| NOMBRES | Victor J |
| APELLIDO | Schoenbach |
| FIRMA | SCHOENBACH V J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 149 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1982 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Depression, ART Adherence, and Receipt of Case Management Services by Adults with HIV in North Carolina, Medical Monitoring Project, 2009–2013
Concurrent Partnerships, Nonmonogamous Partners, and Substance Use Among Women in the United States
Objectives. We determined the prevalence, distribution, and correlates of US women's involvement in concurrent sexual partnerships, a sexual-network pattern that speeds population-wide HIV dissemination. Methods. We used sexual partnership dates reported by 7643 women in the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth to determine prevalence of concurrent sexual partnerships during the preceding 12 months. We examined associations between concurrency a…
Marital Status and Sexually Transmitted Infections Among African Americans
This article assesses the relationship between low marriage rates and racial disparities in sexually transmitted infection (STI) rates. Data from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth was used to examine the prevalence of sexual risk behaviors by marital status. Logistic regression was used to examine whether racial differences in marriage patterns help account for racial disparities in STI rates. Results indicate that the 12-month prevalence…
Incarceration and High-Risk Sex Partnerships among Men in the United States
An Evaluation of HIV Testing Among Inmates in the North Carolina Prison System
Objectives. We examined the use of voluntary HIV testing among state prisoners in the North Carolina prison system. Methods. We calculated system-wide and facility-specific proportions and rates of adult inmates tested for HIV and estimated associations between testing status and inmate characteristics for prisoners in North Carolina. Results. Of the 54 016 inmates who entered prison between January 2004 and May 2006, 20 820 (38%) were tested for…
Characteristics and Behaviors Associated With HIV Infection Among Inmates in the North Carolina Prison System
Objectives. We identified factors associated with testing HIV positive in a prison system performing voluntary HIV testing on inmates and estimated the number of undetected HIV cases to evaluate the efficacy of risk-factor–based HIV testing. Methods. We used logistic regression to estimate associations between HIV serostatus and HIV risk behaviors, mental health, coinfection status, and sociodemographic characteristics for prisoners entering the …
Family and school socioeconomic disadvantage
All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality Among Men Released From State Prison, 1980–2005
Objectives. We compared mortality of ex-prisoners and other state residents to identify unmet health care needs among former prisoners. Methods. We linked North Carolina prison records with state death records for 1980 to 2005 to estimate the number of overall and cause-specific deaths among male ex-prisoners aged 20 to 69 years and used standardized mortality ratios (SMRs) to compare these observed deaths with the number of expected deaths had t…
Concurrent Sexual Partnerships Among Men in the United States
Objectives. We sought to determine the prevalence, distribution, and correlates of US men’s involvement in concurrent sexual partnerships, a sexual network pattern that speeds population dissemination of HIV. Methods. For this analysis, we compared sexual partnership dates of 4928 male respondents in the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth to determine the prevalence of concurrent sexual partnerships and evaluated associations between concurren…
HIV and African Americans in the Southern United States
BACKGROUND: Heterosexual HIV transmission among African Americans in the rural southern United States has climbed in recent years. Concurrent partnerships and bridge populations have emerged as key elements in the spread of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). GOAL: The goal of this study was to examine published empiric data and other literature concerning the extent of these network patterns and their relationship to the socioeconomic contex…
Social Context, Sexual Networks, and Racial Disparities in Rates of Sexually Transmitted Infections
BACKGROUND: Social context (demographic, socioeconomic, macroeconomic, and sociopolitical features of the environment) influences the epidemiology and consequences of individual behaviors that affect health outcomes. This article examines the role of social context in heterosexual networks that facilitate the spread of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs), particularly in relation to persis…
Routine Physical Examination and Forgone Health Care among Latino Adolescent Immigrants in the United States
Concurrent Sexual Partnerships Among Women in the United States
BACKGROUND: The marked racial disparity in sexually transmitted infection (STI) rates in the United States remains inadequately explained. One important factor may be concurrent sexual partnerships (relationships that overlap in time), which can transmit STIs more rapidly through a population than does sequential monogamy. METHODS: To determine prevalence, distribution, and correlates of U.S. women's involvement in concurrent partnerships, we ana…
Contextual Factors and the Black-White Disparity in Heterosexual HIV Transmission
African-Americans have the highest rates of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission, including heterosexual transmission, in the United States. Although numerous factors probably contribute to the extreme racial disparity, reasons for its persistence remain poorly explained. Mathematical modeling demonstrates that concurrent sexual partnerships speed transmission of HIV through sexual networks more effectively than does serial monogamy, f…
Behaviors That Facilite Sexual Transmission of HIV and STDs in a Rural Community
Syphilis in the South
We studied primary and secondary syphilis rates in North Carolina for 1985 through 1993 to elucidate demographic trends and the role of rurality in the state's high rates. Each of the state's 100 counties was classified by rural-urban character; and county-level rates, adjusted for gender, race, and age group, were compared. Syphilis rates rose dramatically during the 9-year period, with most of the increase occurring among women, non-Whites, and…
A survey of smoking and quitting patterns among black Americans
A sample of adult Black policyholders of the nation's largest Black-owned life insurance company was surveyed in 1986 to add to limited data on smoking and quitting patterns among Black Americans, and to provide direction for cessation initiatives targeted to Black smokers. Forty per cent of 2,958 age-eligible policyholders for whom current addresses were available returned a completed questionnaire. Population estimates for smoking status agree …
Debunking myths about self-quitting
This article examines data from 10 longterm prospective studies (N greater than 5,000) in relation to key issues about the self-quitting of smoking, especially those discussed by Schachter. When a single attempt to quit was evaluated, self-quitters' success rates were no better than those reported for formal treatment programs. Light smokers (20 or less cigarettes per day) were 2.2 times more likely to quit than heavy smokers. The cyclical nature…
Appraising health risk appraisal
Appraising health risk appraisal. V J SchoenbachCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.77.4.409 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Social Ties and Mortality in Evans County, Georgia
In an attempt to replicate Berkman and Syme's study of social networks and mortality in Alameda County, California, the authors investigated the relationship between a social network index and survivorship from 1967 to 1980 in the Evans County, Georgia, cohort. They constructed an index modeled after the Berkman Social Network Index and tested it in race- and sex-specific proportional hazards models for 2,059 subjects who were examined in 1967-19…
The Epidemiologic Evidence for a Relationship Between Social Support and Health
W. EUGENE BROADHEAD, BERTON H. KAPLAN, SHERMAN A. JAMES, EDWARD H. WAGNER, VICTOR J. SCHOENBACH, ROGER GRIMSON, SIEGFRIED HEYDEN, GŌSTA TIBBLIN, STEPHEN H. GEHL
Prevalence of self-reported depressive symptoms in young adolescents
To investigate the significance and measurement of depressive symptoms in young adolescents, 624 junior high school students were asked to complete the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) during home interviews. In 384 usable symptom scales, item-scale correlations (most were above .50), inter-item correlations, coefficient alpha (.85), and patterns of reported symptoms were reasonable. Persistent symptoms were reported more…
An assessment of health hazard/health risk appraisal
A state-of-the-art review of a widely-used health promotion technique, the health hazard/health risk appraisal (HHA/HRA), was conducted. The review included preparing a 212-item annotated bibliography, compiling an inventory of 217 programs that have used HHA/HRA, holding discussions with HHA/HRA developers and users, conducting formal site visits to 15 HHA/HRA programs, and consultation with experts on epidemiology, biostatistics, and behavioral…
Concurrent Sexual Partnerships Among Men in the United States
Objectives. We sought to determine the prevalence, distribution, and correlates of US men’s involvement in concurrent sexual partnerships, a sexual network pattern that speeds population dissemination of HIV. Methods. For this analysis, we compared sexual partnership dates of 4928 male respondents in the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth to determine the prevalence of concurrent sexual partnerships and evaluated associations between concurren…
Debunking myths about self-quitting
This article examines data from 10 longterm prospective studies (N greater than 5,000) in relation to key issues about the self-quitting of smoking, especially those discussed by Schachter. When a single attempt to quit was evaluated, self-quitters' success rates were no better than those reported for formal treatment programs. Light smokers (20 or less cigarettes per day) were 2.2 times more likely to quit than heavy smokers. The cyclical nature…
All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality Among Men Released From State Prison, 1980–2005
Objectives. We compared mortality of ex-prisoners and other state residents to identify unmet health care needs among former prisoners. Methods. We linked North Carolina prison records with state death records for 1980 to 2005 to estimate the number of overall and cause-specific deaths among male ex-prisoners aged 20 to 69 years and used standardized mortality ratios (SMRs) to compare these observed deaths with the number of expected deaths had t…
Incarceration and High-Risk Sex Partnerships among Men in the United States
Family and school socioeconomic disadvantage
A survey of smoking and quitting patterns among black Americans
A sample of adult Black policyholders of the nation's largest Black-owned life insurance company was surveyed in 1986 to add to limited data on smoking and quitting patterns among Black Americans, and to provide direction for cessation initiatives targeted to Black smokers. Forty per cent of 2,958 age-eligible policyholders for whom current addresses were available returned a completed questionnaire. Population estimates for smoking status agree …
Prevalence of self-reported depressive symptoms in young adolescents
To investigate the significance and measurement of depressive symptoms in young adolescents, 624 junior high school students were asked to complete the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) during home interviews. In 384 usable symptom scales, item-scale correlations (most were above .50), inter-item correlations, coefficient alpha (.85), and patterns of reported symptoms were reasonable. Persistent symptoms were reported more…
An assessment of health hazard/health risk appraisal
A state-of-the-art review of a widely-used health promotion technique, the health hazard/health risk appraisal (HHA/HRA), was conducted. The review included preparing a 212-item annotated bibliography, compiling an inventory of 217 programs that have used HHA/HRA, holding discussions with HHA/HRA developers and users, conducting formal site visits to 15 HHA/HRA programs, and consultation with experts on epidemiology, biostatistics, and behavioral…
Concurrent Partnerships, Nonmonogamous Partners, and Substance Use Among Women in the United States
Objectives. We determined the prevalence, distribution, and correlates of US women's involvement in concurrent sexual partnerships, a sexual-network pattern that speeds population-wide HIV dissemination. Methods. We used sexual partnership dates reported by 7643 women in the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth to determine prevalence of concurrent sexual partnerships during the preceding 12 months. We examined associations between concurrency a…
Syphilis in the South
We studied primary and secondary syphilis rates in North Carolina for 1985 through 1993 to elucidate demographic trends and the role of rurality in the state's high rates. Each of the state's 100 counties was classified by rural-urban character; and county-level rates, adjusted for gender, race, and age group, were compared. Syphilis rates rose dramatically during the 9-year period, with most of the increase occurring among women, non-Whites, and…
Marital Status and Sexually Transmitted Infections Among African Americans
This article assesses the relationship between low marriage rates and racial disparities in sexually transmitted infection (STI) rates. Data from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth was used to examine the prevalence of sexual risk behaviors by marital status. Logistic regression was used to examine whether racial differences in marriage patterns help account for racial disparities in STI rates. Results indicate that the 12-month prevalence…
Characteristics and Behaviors Associated With HIV Infection Among Inmates in the North Carolina Prison System
Objectives. We identified factors associated with testing HIV positive in a prison system performing voluntary HIV testing on inmates and estimated the number of undetected HIV cases to evaluate the efficacy of risk-factor–based HIV testing. Methods. We used logistic regression to estimate associations between HIV serostatus and HIV risk behaviors, mental health, coinfection status, and sociodemographic characteristics for prisoners entering the …
Appraising health risk appraisal
Appraising health risk appraisal. V J SchoenbachCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.77.4.409 Published Online: October 07, 2011
An assessment of health hazard/health risk appraisal
A state-of-the-art review of a widely-used health promotion technique, the health hazard/health risk appraisal (HHA/HRA), was conducted. The review included preparing a 212-item annotated bibliography, compiling an inventory of 217 programs that have used HHA/HRA, holding discussions with HHA/HRA developers and users, conducting formal site visits to 15 HHA/HRA programs, and consultation with experts on epidemiology, biostatistics, and behavioral…
The Epidemiologic Evidence for a Relationship Between Social Support and Health
W. EUGENE BROADHEAD, BERTON H. KAPLAN, SHERMAN A. JAMES, EDWARD H. WAGNER, VICTOR J. SCHOENBACH, ROGER GRIMSON, SIEGFRIED HEYDEN, GŌSTA TIBBLIN, STEPHEN H. GEHL
Prevalence of self-reported depressive symptoms in young adolescents
To investigate the significance and measurement of depressive symptoms in young adolescents, 624 junior high school students were asked to complete the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) during home interviews. In 384 usable symptom scales, item-scale correlations (most were above .50), inter-item correlations, coefficient alpha (.85), and patterns of reported symptoms were reasonable. Persistent symptoms were reported more…
Social Ties and Mortality in Evans County, Georgia
In an attempt to replicate Berkman and Syme's study of social networks and mortality in Alameda County, California, the authors investigated the relationship between a social network index and survivorship from 1967 to 1980 in the Evans County, Georgia, cohort. They constructed an index modeled after the Berkman Social Network Index and tested it in race- and sex-specific proportional hazards models for 2,059 subjects who were examined in 1967-19…
Appraising health risk appraisal
Appraising health risk appraisal. V J SchoenbachCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.77.4.409 Published Online: October 07, 2011
A survey of smoking and quitting patterns among black Americans
A sample of adult Black policyholders of the nation's largest Black-owned life insurance company was surveyed in 1986 to add to limited data on smoking and quitting patterns among Black Americans, and to provide direction for cessation initiatives targeted to Black smokers. Forty per cent of 2,958 age-eligible policyholders for whom current addresses were available returned a completed questionnaire. Population estimates for smoking status agree …
Debunking myths about self-quitting
This article examines data from 10 longterm prospective studies (N greater than 5,000) in relation to key issues about the self-quitting of smoking, especially those discussed by Schachter. When a single attempt to quit was evaluated, self-quitters' success rates were no better than those reported for formal treatment programs. Light smokers (20 or less cigarettes per day) were 2.2 times more likely to quit than heavy smokers. The cyclical nature…
Syphilis in the South
We studied primary and secondary syphilis rates in North Carolina for 1985 through 1993 to elucidate demographic trends and the role of rurality in the state's high rates. Each of the state's 100 counties was classified by rural-urban character; and county-level rates, adjusted for gender, race, and age group, were compared. Syphilis rates rose dramatically during the 9-year period, with most of the increase occurring among women, non-Whites, and…
Behaviors That Facilite Sexual Transmission of HIV and STDs in a Rural Community
Concurrent Sexual Partnerships Among Women in the United States
BACKGROUND: The marked racial disparity in sexually transmitted infection (STI) rates in the United States remains inadequately explained. One important factor may be concurrent sexual partnerships (relationships that overlap in time), which can transmit STIs more rapidly through a population than does sequential monogamy. METHODS: To determine prevalence, distribution, and correlates of U.S. women's involvement in concurrent partnerships, we ana…
Contextual Factors and the Black-White Disparity in Heterosexual HIV Transmission
African-Americans have the highest rates of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission, including heterosexual transmission, in the United States. Although numerous factors probably contribute to the extreme racial disparity, reasons for its persistence remain poorly explained. Mathematical modeling demonstrates that concurrent sexual partnerships speed transmission of HIV through sexual networks more effectively than does serial monogamy, f…
Social Context, Sexual Networks, and Racial Disparities in Rates of Sexually Transmitted Infections
BACKGROUND: Social context (demographic, socioeconomic, macroeconomic, and sociopolitical features of the environment) influences the epidemiology and consequences of individual behaviors that affect health outcomes. This article examines the role of social context in heterosexual networks that facilitate the spread of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs), particularly in relation to persis…
Routine Physical Examination and Forgone Health Care among Latino Adolescent Immigrants in the United States
HIV and African Americans in the Southern United States
BACKGROUND: Heterosexual HIV transmission among African Americans in the rural southern United States has climbed in recent years. Concurrent partnerships and bridge populations have emerged as key elements in the spread of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). GOAL: The goal of this study was to examine published empiric data and other literature concerning the extent of these network patterns and their relationship to the socioeconomic contex…
Concurrent Sexual Partnerships Among Men in the United States
Objectives. We sought to determine the prevalence, distribution, and correlates of US men’s involvement in concurrent sexual partnerships, a sexual network pattern that speeds population dissemination of HIV. Methods. For this analysis, we compared sexual partnership dates of 4928 male respondents in the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth to determine the prevalence of concurrent sexual partnerships and evaluated associations between concurren…
All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality Among Men Released From State Prison, 1980–2005
Objectives. We compared mortality of ex-prisoners and other state residents to identify unmet health care needs among former prisoners. Methods. We linked North Carolina prison records with state death records for 1980 to 2005 to estimate the number of overall and cause-specific deaths among male ex-prisoners aged 20 to 69 years and used standardized mortality ratios (SMRs) to compare these observed deaths with the number of expected deaths had t…
Incarceration and High-Risk Sex Partnerships among Men in the United States
An Evaluation of HIV Testing Among Inmates in the North Carolina Prison System
Objectives. We examined the use of voluntary HIV testing among state prisoners in the North Carolina prison system. Methods. We calculated system-wide and facility-specific proportions and rates of adult inmates tested for HIV and estimated associations between testing status and inmate characteristics for prisoners in North Carolina. Results. Of the 54 016 inmates who entered prison between January 2004 and May 2006, 20 820 (38%) were tested for…
Characteristics and Behaviors Associated With HIV Infection Among Inmates in the North Carolina Prison System
Objectives. We identified factors associated with testing HIV positive in a prison system performing voluntary HIV testing on inmates and estimated the number of undetected HIV cases to evaluate the efficacy of risk-factor–based HIV testing. Methods. We used logistic regression to estimate associations between HIV serostatus and HIV risk behaviors, mental health, coinfection status, and sociodemographic characteristics for prisoners entering the …
Family and school socioeconomic disadvantage
Marital Status and Sexually Transmitted Infections Among African Americans
This article assesses the relationship between low marriage rates and racial disparities in sexually transmitted infection (STI) rates. Data from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth was used to examine the prevalence of sexual risk behaviors by marital status. Logistic regression was used to examine whether racial differences in marriage patterns help account for racial disparities in STI rates. Results indicate that the 12-month prevalence…
Concurrent Partnerships, Nonmonogamous Partners, and Substance Use Among Women in the United States
Objectives. We determined the prevalence, distribution, and correlates of US women's involvement in concurrent sexual partnerships, a sexual-network pattern that speeds population-wide HIV dissemination. Methods. We used sexual partnership dates reported by 7643 women in the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth to determine prevalence of concurrent sexual partnerships during the preceding 12 months. We examined associations between concurrency a…
Depression, ART Adherence, and Receipt of Case Management Services by Adults with HIV in North Carolina, Medical Monitoring Project, 2009–2013
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