H Cha
Biographic Data
| ID | 49456 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H Cha |
| GIVEN NAMES | H |
| FAMILY NAME | Cha |
| SIGNATURE | CHA H |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2385-7854 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
How Does the Risk of Dementia Change With Each Additional Year of Education
The risk of dementia is considerably lower among persons with a high educational attainment level than among less educated persons. This association has been documented across countries, cohorts, and populations. However, several questions remain unanswered. What is the rate of decline in dementia risk associated with additional education? Does the rate of decline with additional education differ across the education distribution? Are there key p…
Male Spousal Caregivers Are Increasing, but Only in Less Demanding Care Roles
ObjectiveTo determine if there are gender differences in trends in spousal caregiving among older adults.BackgroundWhile some evidence suggests that men are increasingly adopting caregiving roles, this trend has yet to be demonstrated in population-representative data, and little is known about the types of caregiving tasks men are providing.MethodUsing data from the Health and Retirement Study (2002-2018), we investigate trends in the prevalence…
The importance of education for understanding variability of dementia onset in the United States
BACKGROUND: Greater levels of education are associated with lower risk of dementia, but less is known about how education is also associated with the compression of dementia incidence. OBJECTIVE: We extend the literature on morbidity compression by evaluating whether increased levels of education are associated with greater dementia compression. We evaluate these patterns across race and gender groups. METHODS: We use the Health and Retirement St…
What Explains Socioeconomic Disparities in Early Pregnancy Rates
In this study, we integrate diverse structural, social psychological, and relational perspectives to develop and test a comprehensive framework of the processes that make early pregnancy a socially stratified phenomenon. Drawing on rich panel data collected among a sample of 940 18- to 20-year-old women from a county in Michigan, we estimate nested hazard models and formal mediation analyses to simultaneously elucidate the extent to which differe…
A Time of Healing: Can Social Engagement After Bereavement Reduce Trajectories of Depression After the Death of a Child
The death of a child is a traumatic event with extensive health consequences, but research should more fully examine the dynamic nature and potential mitigation of these health consequences over time. Our findings expand the temporal lens to encompass healing processes after bereavement, incorporating the importance of social engagement
Exposure to Family Member Deaths Across the Life Course for Hispanic Individuals
The present study documents differences in exposure to family member deaths among foreign-born and U.S.-born Hispanic individuals compared with non-Hispanic Black and non-Hispanic White individuals. We use data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS; 1992–2016, ages 51+; N = 23,228) and the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health; Waves I–V, ages 12–43; N = 11,088) to estimate the risk of exposure to the death of …
The health of mothers of adult children with serious conditions
Objectives: This study examined the association between parenting adult children with serious conditions and mothers' midlife health in the United States. Background: The literature about the link between the parenting status of having an adult child with a serious condition and maternal wellbeing can be advanced by systematic analysis of the cumulative role that this parenting status can play in maternal health over the life course as opposed to…
Past, present, and future dimensions of socioeconomic status and sexual self-efficacy of young women during the transition into adulthood
Multiple Family Member Deaths and Cardiometabolic Health among Black and White Older Adults
Although the bereavement literature is voluminous, we know very little about how exposure to multiple family member deaths across the life course shapes health trajectories as people age and whether unequal exposure to bereavement contributes to racial inequities in cardiometabolic health. We use longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study (1992-2016) to consider how multiple family member deaths before midlife shape trajectories of ca…
Gender and Social Isolation across the Life Course
Social isolation has robust adverse effects on health, well-being, dementia risk, and longevity. Although most studies suggest similar effects of isolation on the health of men and women, there has been much less attention to gendered patterns of social isolation over the life course-despite decades of research suggesting gender differences in social ties. We build on theoretical frames of constrained choice and gender-as-relational to argue that…
Socioeconomic status across the life course and dementia-status life expectancy among older Americans
This study examines how socioeconomic status (SES) across the life course is associated with individuals’ lifetime dementia experience – the years of life persons can expect to live and without with dementia. Conceptually, dementia-free life expectancy reflects the ability to postpone dementia onset while dementia life expectancy reflects the average lifetime period with the condition. How SES across the life course contributes to dementia-status…
Sibling Deaths, Racial/Ethnic Disadvantage, and Dementia in Later Life
The death of a sibling in mid-to-late life is a stressor that is associated with increased dementia risk. Black adults are disadvantaged in that they are more likely than Whites to experience the death of siblings, and such losses contribute to the already substantial racial/ethnic disadvantage in dementia
Gender and Social Isolation across the Life Course
Social isolation has robust adverse effects on health, well-being, dementia risk, and longevity. Although most studies suggest similar effects of isolation on the health of men and women, there has been much less attention to gendered patterns of social isolation over the life course-despite decades of research suggesting gender differences in social ties. We build on theoretical frames of constrained choice and gender-as-relational to argue that…
Sibling Deaths, Racial/Ethnic Disadvantage, and Dementia in Later Life
The death of a sibling in mid-to-late life is a stressor that is associated with increased dementia risk. Black adults are disadvantaged in that they are more likely than Whites to experience the death of siblings, and such losses contribute to the already substantial racial/ethnic disadvantage in dementia
Multiple Family Member Deaths and Cardiometabolic Health among Black and White Older Adults
Although the bereavement literature is voluminous, we know very little about how exposure to multiple family member deaths across the life course shapes health trajectories as people age and whether unequal exposure to bereavement contributes to racial inequities in cardiometabolic health. We use longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study (1992-2016) to consider how multiple family member deaths before midlife shape trajectories of ca…
The importance of education for understanding variability of dementia onset in the United States
BACKGROUND: Greater levels of education are associated with lower risk of dementia, but less is known about how education is also associated with the compression of dementia incidence. OBJECTIVE: We extend the literature on morbidity compression by evaluating whether increased levels of education are associated with greater dementia compression. We evaluate these patterns across race and gender groups. METHODS: We use the Health and Retirement St…
Exposure to Family Member Deaths Across the Life Course for Hispanic Individuals
The present study documents differences in exposure to family member deaths among foreign-born and U.S.-born Hispanic individuals compared with non-Hispanic Black and non-Hispanic White individuals. We use data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS; 1992–2016, ages 51+; N = 23,228) and the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health; Waves I–V, ages 12–43; N = 11,088) to estimate the risk of exposure to the death of …
A Time of Healing: Can Social Engagement After Bereavement Reduce Trajectories of Depression After the Death of a Child
The death of a child is a traumatic event with extensive health consequences, but research should more fully examine the dynamic nature and potential mitigation of these health consequences over time. Our findings expand the temporal lens to encompass healing processes after bereavement, incorporating the importance of social engagement
Past, present, and future dimensions of socioeconomic status and sexual self-efficacy of young women during the transition into adulthood
Socioeconomic status across the life course and dementia-status life expectancy among older Americans
This study examines how socioeconomic status (SES) across the life course is associated with individuals’ lifetime dementia experience – the years of life persons can expect to live and without with dementia. Conceptually, dementia-free life expectancy reflects the ability to postpone dementia onset while dementia life expectancy reflects the average lifetime period with the condition. How SES across the life course contributes to dementia-status…
Sibling Deaths, Racial/Ethnic Disadvantage, and Dementia in Later Life
The death of a sibling in mid-to-late life is a stressor that is associated with increased dementia risk. Black adults are disadvantaged in that they are more likely than Whites to experience the death of siblings, and such losses contribute to the already substantial racial/ethnic disadvantage in dementia
The health of mothers of adult children with serious conditions
Objectives: This study examined the association between parenting adult children with serious conditions and mothers' midlife health in the United States. Background: The literature about the link between the parenting status of having an adult child with a serious condition and maternal wellbeing can be advanced by systematic analysis of the cumulative role that this parenting status can play in maternal health over the life course as opposed to…
Past, present, and future dimensions of socioeconomic status and sexual self-efficacy of young women during the transition into adulthood
Multiple Family Member Deaths and Cardiometabolic Health among Black and White Older Adults
Although the bereavement literature is voluminous, we know very little about how exposure to multiple family member deaths across the life course shapes health trajectories as people age and whether unequal exposure to bereavement contributes to racial inequities in cardiometabolic health. We use longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study (1992-2016) to consider how multiple family member deaths before midlife shape trajectories of ca…
Gender and Social Isolation across the Life Course
Social isolation has robust adverse effects on health, well-being, dementia risk, and longevity. Although most studies suggest similar effects of isolation on the health of men and women, there has been much less attention to gendered patterns of social isolation over the life course-despite decades of research suggesting gender differences in social ties. We build on theoretical frames of constrained choice and gender-as-relational to argue that…
What Explains Socioeconomic Disparities in Early Pregnancy Rates
In this study, we integrate diverse structural, social psychological, and relational perspectives to develop and test a comprehensive framework of the processes that make early pregnancy a socially stratified phenomenon. Drawing on rich panel data collected among a sample of 940 18- to 20-year-old women from a county in Michigan, we estimate nested hazard models and formal mediation analyses to simultaneously elucidate the extent to which differe…
A Time of Healing: Can Social Engagement After Bereavement Reduce Trajectories of Depression After the Death of a Child
The death of a child is a traumatic event with extensive health consequences, but research should more fully examine the dynamic nature and potential mitigation of these health consequences over time. Our findings expand the temporal lens to encompass healing processes after bereavement, incorporating the importance of social engagement
Exposure to Family Member Deaths Across the Life Course for Hispanic Individuals
The present study documents differences in exposure to family member deaths among foreign-born and U.S.-born Hispanic individuals compared with non-Hispanic Black and non-Hispanic White individuals. We use data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS; 1992–2016, ages 51+; N = 23,228) and the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health; Waves I–V, ages 12–43; N = 11,088) to estimate the risk of exposure to the death of …
The importance of education for understanding variability of dementia onset in the United States
BACKGROUND: Greater levels of education are associated with lower risk of dementia, but less is known about how education is also associated with the compression of dementia incidence. OBJECTIVE: We extend the literature on morbidity compression by evaluating whether increased levels of education are associated with greater dementia compression. We evaluate these patterns across race and gender groups. METHODS: We use the Health and Retirement St…
How Does the Risk of Dementia Change With Each Additional Year of Education
The risk of dementia is considerably lower among persons with a high educational attainment level than among less educated persons. This association has been documented across countries, cohorts, and populations. However, several questions remain unanswered. What is the rate of decline in dementia risk associated with additional education? Does the rate of decline with additional education differ across the education distribution? Are there key p…
Male Spousal Caregivers Are Increasing, but Only in Less Demanding Care Roles
ObjectiveTo determine if there are gender differences in trends in spousal caregiving among older adults.BackgroundWhile some evidence suggests that men are increasingly adopting caregiving roles, this trend has yet to be demonstrated in population-representative data, and little is known about the types of caregiving tasks men are providing.MethodUsing data from the Health and Retirement Study (2002-2018), we investigate trends in the prevalence…
Psychology (10 works) · Developmental psychology (9 works) · Demography (7 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Health and Retirement Study (6 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (6 works) · Life course approach (6 works) · Population (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Gerontology (5 works)