Trivellore E Raghunathan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4804048 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Trivellore E Raghunathan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Trivellore E |
| FAMILY NAME | Raghunathan |
| SIGNATURE | RAGHUNATHAN T E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3054-9833 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 83 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Religiosity, school connectedness, and tobacco use susceptibility
Encouraging religiosity and school connectedness may help reduce adolescent susceptibility to tobacco use in India
Family functioning within the context of families with adolescent children in urban India
Research on family functioning within given cultural contexts is needed. This study aims to describe salient dimensions of family functioning in two urban contexts in India and to examine differences in family functioning by sociodemographic groups. We measured differences in family functioning using cross‐sectional survey questionnaire data collected from 13 to 15‐year‐old adolescents and one of their parents/primary caregivers in Mumbai ( n = 8…
Neighbourhood tobacco retail access and tobacco use susceptibility in young adolescents in urban India
Efforts to reduce neighbourhood tobacco retail access in India may reduce cognitive tobacco use risk factors in young adolescents. The frequency of tobacco retailer visits and perceived tobacco retailer density increased cognitive risks, though there were some exceptions in Kolkata that further research may explain
Longitudinal study of adolescent tobacco use and tobacco control policies in India
India experiences a high burden of disease and mortality from tobacco use. To address this burden, significant long-term prevention and control activities need to include the joint impact of policy, community and family factors on adolescent tobacco use onset. The findings from this study can be used to guide the development and implementation of future tobacco control policy designed to minimize adolescent tobacco use
The Effect of Question Framing and Response Options on the Relationship between Racial Attitudes and Beliefs about Genes as Causes of Behavior
Prior research suggests that the attribution of individual and group differences to genetic causes is correlated with prejudiced attitudes toward minority groups. Our study suggests that these findings may be due to the wording of the questions and to the choice of response options. Using a series of vignettes in an online survey, we find a relationship between racial attitudes and genetic attributions when respondents are asked to make causal at…
Neighborhood Characteristics and Hypertension
BACKGROUND: : The goal of this study was to investigate cross-sectional associations between features of neighborhoods and hypertension and to examine the sensitivity of results to various methods of estimating neighborhood conditions. METHODS: : We used data from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis on 2612 individuals 45-85 years of age. Hypertension was defined as systolic blood pressure above 140 mm Hg, diastolic pressure above 90 mm Hg,…
Emergence of Socioeconomic Inequalities in Smoking and Overweight and Obesity in Early Adulthood
Objectives. We examined whether socioeconomic inequalities in smoking and overweight and obesity emerged in early adulthood and the contribution of family background, adolescent smoking, and body mass index to socioeconomic inequalities. Methods. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health we employed multinomial regression analyses to estimate relative odds of heavy or light-to-moderate smoking to nonsmoking and of overw…
Childhood Socioeconomic Position, Gender, Adult Body Mass Index, and Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Over 34 Years in the Alameda County Study
Objectives. We examined the association between childhood socioeconomic position and incidence of type 2 diabetes and the effects of gender and adult body mass index (BMI). Methods. We studied 5913 participants in the Alameda County Study from 1965 to 1999 who were diabetes free at baseline (1965). Cox proportional hazards models estimated diabetes risk associated with childhood socioeconomic position and combined childhood socioeconomic position…
Trends in U.S. Attitudes Toward Genetic Testing, 1990–2004
This research note examines changes in beliefs and attitudes over a 14-year period, from 1990, when the revolution in genomic science was just beginning, to 2004, the most recent time point for which data are available. The analysis makes clear that there is no simple causal path from changes in technology to changes in values and beliefs, at least over the period of time during which we have been able to track this process. At the same time, cla…
Assessing the Measurement Properties of Neighborhood Scales
Most studies examining the relation between residential environment and health have used census-derived measures of neighborhood socioeconomic position (SEP). There is a need to identify specific features of neighborhoods relevant to disease risk, but few measures of these features exist, and their measurement properties are understudied. In this paper, the authors 1) develop measures (scales) of neighborhood environment that are important in car…
Beliefs about Genes and Environment as Determinants of Behavioral Characteristics
Journal Article Beliefs about Genes and Environment as Determinants of Behavioral Characteristics Get access Eleanor Singer, Eleanor Singer Eleanor Singer is Research Professor Emerita at the Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Toni C. Antonucci, Toni C. Antonucci Toni C. Antonucci is Research Professor and Program Director at the S…
Socioeconomic disadvantage in childhood and across the life course and all-cause mortality and physical function in adulthood
Objective: To measure the childhood and life course socioeconomic exposures of people born between 1871 and 1949, and then to estimate the probability of death between 1965 and 1994, the probability of functional limitation in 1994, and the combined probability of dying or experiencing functional limitation during this period. Setting, participants and design: Data were from the Alameda County Study (California) and pertained to people aged 17–94…
The Health of Poor Women Under Welfare Reform
Objectives. We compared the health of single mothers affected by welfare reform with the health of a nationally representative sample of women to document the prevalence of poor health as single mothers experience the effects of welfare reform. Methods. We compared risk factors and measures of health among women randomly sampled from the welfare rolls with similar data from a nationally representative sample of women. Results. Women in our welfar…
Race/Ethnicity, Life-Course Socioeconomic Position, and Body Weight Trajectories Over 34 years
Objectives. We investigated whether race differences in weight gain over 34 years were because of socioeconomic position (SEP) and psychosocial and behavioral factors (physical activity, cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption, depression, marital status, number of children). We used a life-course approach to SEP with 4 measures of SEP (childhood SEP, education, occupation, income) and a cumulative measure of SEP. Methods. We used mixed models and…
What Do We Do with Missing Data? Some Options for Analysis of Incomplete Data
Missing data are a pervasive problem in many public health investigations. The standard approach is to restrict the analysis to subjects with complete data on the variables involved in the analysis. Estimates from such analysis can be biased, especially if the subjects who are included in the analysis are systematically different from those who were excluded in terms of one or more key variables. Severity of bias in the estimates is illustrated t…
Relative or Absolute Standards for Child Poverty
Objectives. The purpose of the present study was to compare the associations of state-referenced and federal poverty measures with states’ infant and child mortality rates. Methods. Compressed mortality and Current Population Survey data were used to examine relationships between mortality and (1) state-referenced poverty (percentage of children below half the state median income) and (2) percentage of children below the federal poverty line. Res…
Income inequality, the psychosocial environment, and health
Public Attitudes Toward Data Sharing by Federal Agencies
Very little information exists concerning public attitudes on the topic of data sharing among Federal agencies. The most extensive information prior to 1995 comes from questions on several IRS surveys of taxpayers, from questions added to a series of Wisconsin surveys carried out in 1993-95, and from scattered other surveys reviewed by Blair (1995) for the National Academy of Sciences panels. From this review it is clear that the public is not we…
Race/Ethnicity, Life-Course Socioeconomic Position, and Body Weight Trajectories Over 34 years
Objectives. We investigated whether race differences in weight gain over 34 years were because of socioeconomic position (SEP) and psychosocial and behavioral factors (physical activity, cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption, depression, marital status, number of children). We used a life-course approach to SEP with 4 measures of SEP (childhood SEP, education, occupation, income) and a cumulative measure of SEP. Methods. We used mixed models and…
Socioeconomic disadvantage in childhood and across the life course and all-cause mortality and physical function in adulthood
Objective: To measure the childhood and life course socioeconomic exposures of people born between 1871 and 1949, and then to estimate the probability of death between 1965 and 1994, the probability of functional limitation in 1994, and the combined probability of dying or experiencing functional limitation during this period. Setting, participants and design: Data were from the Alameda County Study (California) and pertained to people aged 17–94…
Childhood Socioeconomic Position, Gender, Adult Body Mass Index, and Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Over 34 Years in the Alameda County Study
Objectives. We examined the association between childhood socioeconomic position and incidence of type 2 diabetes and the effects of gender and adult body mass index (BMI). Methods. We studied 5913 participants in the Alameda County Study from 1965 to 1999 who were diabetes free at baseline (1965). Cox proportional hazards models estimated diabetes risk associated with childhood socioeconomic position and combined childhood socioeconomic position…
The Health of Poor Women Under Welfare Reform
Objectives. We compared the health of single mothers affected by welfare reform with the health of a nationally representative sample of women to document the prevalence of poor health as single mothers experience the effects of welfare reform. Methods. We compared risk factors and measures of health among women randomly sampled from the welfare rolls with similar data from a nationally representative sample of women. Results. Women in our welfar…
The Effect of Question Framing and Response Options on the Relationship between Racial Attitudes and Beliefs about Genes as Causes of Behavior
Prior research suggests that the attribution of individual and group differences to genetic causes is correlated with prejudiced attitudes toward minority groups. Our study suggests that these findings may be due to the wording of the questions and to the choice of response options. Using a series of vignettes in an online survey, we find a relationship between racial attitudes and genetic attributions when respondents are asked to make causal at…
Emergence of Socioeconomic Inequalities in Smoking and Overweight and Obesity in Early Adulthood
Objectives. We examined whether socioeconomic inequalities in smoking and overweight and obesity emerged in early adulthood and the contribution of family background, adolescent smoking, and body mass index to socioeconomic inequalities. Methods. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health we employed multinomial regression analyses to estimate relative odds of heavy or light-to-moderate smoking to nonsmoking and of overw…
Trends in U.S. Attitudes Toward Genetic Testing, 1990–2004
This research note examines changes in beliefs and attitudes over a 14-year period, from 1990, when the revolution in genomic science was just beginning, to 2004, the most recent time point for which data are available. The analysis makes clear that there is no simple causal path from changes in technology to changes in values and beliefs, at least over the period of time during which we have been able to track this process. At the same time, cla…
Public Attitudes Toward Data Sharing by Federal Agencies
Very little information exists concerning public attitudes on the topic of data sharing among Federal agencies. The most extensive information prior to 1995 comes from questions on several IRS surveys of taxpayers, from questions added to a series of Wisconsin surveys carried out in 1993-95, and from scattered other surveys reviewed by Blair (1995) for the National Academy of Sciences panels. From this review it is clear that the public is not we…
Beliefs about Genes and Environment as Determinants of Behavioral Characteristics
Journal Article Beliefs about Genes and Environment as Determinants of Behavioral Characteristics Get access Eleanor Singer, Eleanor Singer Eleanor Singer is Research Professor Emerita at the Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Toni C. Antonucci, Toni C. Antonucci Toni C. Antonucci is Research Professor and Program Director at the S…
Relative or Absolute Standards for Child Poverty
Objectives. The purpose of the present study was to compare the associations of state-referenced and federal poverty measures with states’ infant and child mortality rates. Methods. Compressed mortality and Current Population Survey data were used to examine relationships between mortality and (1) state-referenced poverty (percentage of children below half the state median income) and (2) percentage of children below the federal poverty line. Res…
Public Attitudes Toward Data Sharing by Federal Agencies
Very little information exists concerning public attitudes on the topic of data sharing among Federal agencies. The most extensive information prior to 1995 comes from questions on several IRS surveys of taxpayers, from questions added to a series of Wisconsin surveys carried out in 1993-95, and from scattered other surveys reviewed by Blair (1995) for the National Academy of Sciences panels. From this review it is clear that the public is not we…
Income inequality, the psychosocial environment, and health
Relative or Absolute Standards for Child Poverty
Objectives. The purpose of the present study was to compare the associations of state-referenced and federal poverty measures with states’ infant and child mortality rates. Methods. Compressed mortality and Current Population Survey data were used to examine relationships between mortality and (1) state-referenced poverty (percentage of children below half the state median income) and (2) percentage of children below the federal poverty line. Res…
What Do We Do with Missing Data? Some Options for Analysis of Incomplete Data
Missing data are a pervasive problem in many public health investigations. The standard approach is to restrict the analysis to subjects with complete data on the variables involved in the analysis. Estimates from such analysis can be biased, especially if the subjects who are included in the analysis are systematically different from those who were excluded in terms of one or more key variables. Severity of bias in the estimates is illustrated t…
The Health of Poor Women Under Welfare Reform
Objectives. We compared the health of single mothers affected by welfare reform with the health of a nationally representative sample of women to document the prevalence of poor health as single mothers experience the effects of welfare reform. Methods. We compared risk factors and measures of health among women randomly sampled from the welfare rolls with similar data from a nationally representative sample of women. Results. Women in our welfar…
Race/Ethnicity, Life-Course Socioeconomic Position, and Body Weight Trajectories Over 34 years
Objectives. We investigated whether race differences in weight gain over 34 years were because of socioeconomic position (SEP) and psychosocial and behavioral factors (physical activity, cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption, depression, marital status, number of children). We used a life-course approach to SEP with 4 measures of SEP (childhood SEP, education, occupation, income) and a cumulative measure of SEP. Methods. We used mixed models and…
Assessing the Measurement Properties of Neighborhood Scales
Most studies examining the relation between residential environment and health have used census-derived measures of neighborhood socioeconomic position (SEP). There is a need to identify specific features of neighborhoods relevant to disease risk, but few measures of these features exist, and their measurement properties are understudied. In this paper, the authors 1) develop measures (scales) of neighborhood environment that are important in car…
Beliefs about Genes and Environment as Determinants of Behavioral Characteristics
Journal Article Beliefs about Genes and Environment as Determinants of Behavioral Characteristics Get access Eleanor Singer, Eleanor Singer Eleanor Singer is Research Professor Emerita at the Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Toni C. Antonucci, Toni C. Antonucci Toni C. Antonucci is Research Professor and Program Director at the S…
Socioeconomic disadvantage in childhood and across the life course and all-cause mortality and physical function in adulthood
Objective: To measure the childhood and life course socioeconomic exposures of people born between 1871 and 1949, and then to estimate the probability of death between 1965 and 1994, the probability of functional limitation in 1994, and the combined probability of dying or experiencing functional limitation during this period. Setting, participants and design: Data were from the Alameda County Study (California) and pertained to people aged 17–94…
Neighborhood Characteristics and Hypertension
BACKGROUND: : The goal of this study was to investigate cross-sectional associations between features of neighborhoods and hypertension and to examine the sensitivity of results to various methods of estimating neighborhood conditions. METHODS: : We used data from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis on 2612 individuals 45-85 years of age. Hypertension was defined as systolic blood pressure above 140 mm Hg, diastolic pressure above 90 mm Hg,…
Emergence of Socioeconomic Inequalities in Smoking and Overweight and Obesity in Early Adulthood
Objectives. We examined whether socioeconomic inequalities in smoking and overweight and obesity emerged in early adulthood and the contribution of family background, adolescent smoking, and body mass index to socioeconomic inequalities. Methods. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health we employed multinomial regression analyses to estimate relative odds of heavy or light-to-moderate smoking to nonsmoking and of overw…
Childhood Socioeconomic Position, Gender, Adult Body Mass Index, and Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Over 34 Years in the Alameda County Study
Objectives. We examined the association between childhood socioeconomic position and incidence of type 2 diabetes and the effects of gender and adult body mass index (BMI). Methods. We studied 5913 participants in the Alameda County Study from 1965 to 1999 who were diabetes free at baseline (1965). Cox proportional hazards models estimated diabetes risk associated with childhood socioeconomic position and combined childhood socioeconomic position…
Trends in U.S. Attitudes Toward Genetic Testing, 1990–2004
This research note examines changes in beliefs and attitudes over a 14-year period, from 1990, when the revolution in genomic science was just beginning, to 2004, the most recent time point for which data are available. The analysis makes clear that there is no simple causal path from changes in technology to changes in values and beliefs, at least over the period of time during which we have been able to track this process. At the same time, cla…
The Effect of Question Framing and Response Options on the Relationship between Racial Attitudes and Beliefs about Genes as Causes of Behavior
Prior research suggests that the attribution of individual and group differences to genetic causes is correlated with prejudiced attitudes toward minority groups. Our study suggests that these findings may be due to the wording of the questions and to the choice of response options. Using a series of vignettes in an online survey, we find a relationship between racial attitudes and genetic attributions when respondents are asked to make causal at…
Longitudinal study of adolescent tobacco use and tobacco control policies in India
India experiences a high burden of disease and mortality from tobacco use. To address this burden, significant long-term prevention and control activities need to include the joint impact of policy, community and family factors on adolescent tobacco use onset. The findings from this study can be used to guide the development and implementation of future tobacco control policy designed to minimize adolescent tobacco use
Neighbourhood tobacco retail access and tobacco use susceptibility in young adolescents in urban India
Efforts to reduce neighbourhood tobacco retail access in India may reduce cognitive tobacco use risk factors in young adolescents. The frequency of tobacco retailer visits and perceived tobacco retailer density increased cognitive risks, though there were some exceptions in Kolkata that further research may explain
Family functioning within the context of families with adolescent children in urban India
Research on family functioning within given cultural contexts is needed. This study aims to describe salient dimensions of family functioning in two urban contexts in India and to examine differences in family functioning by sociodemographic groups. We measured differences in family functioning using cross‐sectional survey questionnaire data collected from 13 to 15‐year‐old adolescents and one of their parents/primary caregivers in Mumbai ( n = 8…
Religiosity, school connectedness, and tobacco use susceptibility
Encouraging religiosity and school connectedness may help reduce adolescent susceptibility to tobacco use in India
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