Julia B Ward

Biographic Data

ID5137780
NAMEJulia B Ward
GIVEN NAMESJulia B
FAMILY NAMEWard
SIGNATUREWARD J B
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS16
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX2

  • A Gene-Acculturation Study of Obesity Among US Hispanic/Latinos

    Lindsay Fernandez-Rhodes, Cristin E McArdle et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine2023

    OBJECTIVE: In the United States, Hispanic/Latino adults face a high burden of obesity; yet, not all individuals are equally affected, partly due in part to this ethnic group's marked sociocultural diversity. We sought to analyze the modification of body mass index (BMI) genetic effects in Hispanic/Latino adults by their level of acculturation, a complex biosocial phenomenon that remains understudied. METHODS: Among 11,747 Hispanic/Latinos adults …

  • Public health, private names

    Open AccessMike Dolan Fliss, Danielle R Gartner et al.ARTICLECritical Public Health2020

    In a resource limited environment, universities may increasingly need to conceive themselves as ‘brands’ and to mobilize capitalist marketing strategies to enhance institutional reputations. Between 1994 and July 2018, 24% of accredited United States public health schools were renamed for private donors. We suggest branding public health schools with private names carries ethical risks, including threats to stated school values, public health pra…

  • Spanish Language Use Across Generations and Depressive Symptoms Among US Latinos

    Open AccessJulia B Ward, Anissa I Vines et al.ARTICLEChild Psychiatry & Human…2018

  • Perceived Racial/Ethnic Discrimination and Mental Health

    Open AccessAnissa I Vines, Julia B Ward et al.ARTICLECurrent Epidemiology Reports2017

  • Perceived discrimination and depressive symptoms among US Latinos

    Julia B Ward, Lydia Feinstein et al.ARTICLEEthnicity and Health2017Cited by: 12References: 33

    US Latinos suffer a high burden of depressive symptoms, and discrimination may be an important driver of this burden. Our results suggest that effortful coping strategies, such as achieving high education despite high perceived discrimination, may magnify discrimination's adverse effect on Latino mental health

  • How substandard dwellings and housing affordability problems are associated with poor health in a vulnerable population during the economic recession of the late 2000s

    Open AccessAna M Novoa, Julia Ward et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2015

    This study has shown how, in a country hit by the financial recession, those people facing housing problems have much worse health compared to the general population

  • Vitamin B 12 serostatus in Colombian children and adult women

    Open AccessOscar Fernando Herran, Julia B Ward et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2015

    Objective Vitamin B 12 deficiency is associated with many adverse health outcomes and is highly prevalent worldwide. The present study assesses the prevalence of vitamin B 12 deficiency and marginal deficiency in Colombian children and women and examines the sociodemographic correlates of serum vitamin B 12 concentrations in these groups. Design Cross-sectional, nationally representative survey. Setting Colombia. Subjects Children n 7243), pregna…

  • Association of socioeconomic factors with body mass index, obesity, physical activity, and dietary factors in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais State, Brazil

    Open AccessJulia Ward, Julia B Ward et al.ARTICLECadernos de Saude Publica2015Cited by: 4References: 36

    Obesity prevalence is rapidly increasing in developing countries. Existing research investigating social patterning of obesity and its risk factors in Latin American urban contexts has inconsistent findings. This study analyzed a multistage household survey in adults in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais State, Brazil. Marginal models were used to examine the association of education and household and neighborhood income with body mass index (BMI), obe…