S Leonard Syme
Biographic Data
| ID | 5541587 |
|---|---|
| NAME | S Leonard Syme |
| GIVEN NAMES | S Leonard |
| FAMILY NAME | Syme |
| SIGNATURE | SYME S L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1139 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1957 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
“My Hope Is . . . ”: A Hope-Based Typology of Homeless Youth
Many youth experiencing homelessness (YEH) are surprisingly hopeful. We propose a typology of the hopes for the future (HFTF) of YEH, based on a qualitative study employing grounded theory. YEH fell into four categories: (a) nonmainstream HFTF youth who wished to escape the mainstream, (b) mainstream HFTF youth who wished to integrate into the mainstream, (c) marijuana-economy HFTF youth who aspired to escape homelessness by entering the marijuan…
Engaging youth in communities: A framework for promoting adolescent and community health
Health researchers and practitioners increasingly recognise the important role communities play in shaping individual health. Health researchers recognise the role of community factors as causes or determinants of health problems; use community-based methods for understanding complex health issues; and design community-level health solutions . In this commentary, we propose a fourth way to think about the role of communities in individual health …
The association between a living wage and subjective social status and self-rated health: A quasi-experimental study in the Dominican Republic
Vacation, Collective Restoration, and Mental Health in a Population
Vacations enable people to help one another, spend time together in pleasant contexts, and renew relational resources. Reasoning that these shared activities spread social and psychological benefits through social networks, we hypothesized that increase in the number of vacationing workers engenders nonlinear decline in psychological distress at the population level. We applied time-series methods to aggregate data on monthly dispensation of anti…
The Role of Individual and Neighborhood Factors: HIV Acquisition Risk Among High-Risk Populations in San Francisco
Social Isolation: A Predictor of Mortality Comparable to Traditional Clinical Risk Factors
Objectives. We explored the relationship between social isolation and mortality in a nationally representative US sample and compared the predictive power of social isolation with that of traditional clinical risk factors. Methods. We used data on 16 849 adults from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and the National Death Index. Predictor variables were 4 social isolation factors and a composite index. Comparison predicto…
Education: A Missed Opportunity for Public Health Intervention
Educational attainment is a well-established social determinant of health. It affects health through many mechanisms such as neural development, biological aging, health literacy and health behaviors, sense of control and empowerment, and life chances. Education—from preschool to beyond college—is also one of the social determinants of health for which there are clear policy pathways for intervention. We reviewed evidence from studies of early ch…
Integration of Social Epidemiology and Community-Engaged Interventions to Improve Health Equity
The past quarter century has seen an explosion of concern about widening health inequities in the United States and worldwide. These inequities are central to the research mission in 2 arenas of public health: social epidemiology and community-engaged interventions. Yet only modest success has been achieved in eliminating health inequities. We advocate dialogue and reciprocal learning between researchers with these 2 perspectives to enhance emerg…
Do experiences of racial discrimination predict cardiovascular disease among African American men? The moderating role of internalized negative racial group attitudes
Objective and subjective social class gradients for substance use among Mexican adolescents
Promoting Prenatal and Early Childhood Health: Evaluation of a Statewide Materials-Based Intervention for Parents
Objectives. There is a critical need for effective, large-scale health communication programs to support parents of children aged 0–5 years. We evaluated the effectiveness of the Kit for New Parents, a multimedia health and parenting resource now distributed annually to 500000 parents in California. Methods. In this quasi-experimental study, 462 mothers in the intervention group and 1011 mothers in the comparison group, recruited from prenatal an…
The Social Environment and Health: A Discussion of the Epidemiologic Literature
The environment can be thought of in terms of physical and social dimensions. The social environment includes the groups to which we belong, the neighborhoods in which we live, the organization of our workplaces, and the policies we create to order our lives. There have been recent reports in the literature that the social environment is associated with disease and mortality risks, independent of individual risk factors. These findings suggest th…
Socioeconomic status and health: The challenge of the gradient
SES is consistently associated with health outcomes, yet little is known about the psychosocial and behavioral mechanisms that might explain this association. Researchers usually control for SES rather than examine it. When it is studied, only effects of lower, poverty-level SES are generally examined. However, there is evidence of a graded association with health at all levels of SES, an observation that requires new thought about domains throug…
The Wellness Guide: Towards a new model for community participation in health promotion
This paper describes how community participation came to play a central role in developing the Wellness Guide Project, a major new health promotion initiative of the State of California. The Guide itself was to be a simple document that would give information on how to stay well and where to find help on health-related topics. It was to be sensitive to the needs of people of all ethnic and social backgrounds, and suitable for distribution to all …
Social Connections and Mortality From All Causes and From Cardiovascular Disease: Prospective Evidence From Eastern Finland
The association between an a priori measure of social connections and five-year mortality from all causes, cardiovascular diseases (International Classification of Diseases, Eighth Revision (ICD-8) codes 390-458), and ischemic heart disease (ICD-8 codes 410-414) was studied in 13,301 men and women from eastern Finland who were first interviewed in 1972 or 1977. For men, there was a graded association between extent of social connections and morta…
Social support and health
Social Networks, Host Resistance, and Mortality: A Nine-Year Follow-Up Study of Alameda County Residents
The relationship between social and community ties and mortality was assessed using the 1965 Human Population Laboratory survey of a random sample of 6928 adults in Alameda County, California and a subsequent nine-year mortality follow-up. The findings show that people who lacked social and community ties were more likely to die in the follow-up period than those with more extensive contacts. The age-adjusted relative risks for those most isolate…
Acculturation and Coronary Heart Disease in Japanese-Americans
Among men of Japanese ancestry, there is a gradient in the occurrence of coronary heart disease (CHD). It is lowest in Japan, intermediate in Hawaii, and highest in California. This gradient appears not to be completely explained by differences in dietary intake, serum cholesterol, blood pressure or smoking. To test the hypothesis that social and cultural differences may account for the CHD differences between Japan and the United States, 3809 Ja…
Social Class, Susceptibility and Sickness
The effects of policies and programs on reduction of mental hospitalization
Social Factors in Newly Discovered Elevated Blood Pressure
Thomas W. Oakes, S. Leonard Syme, Robert Feldman, Gary D. Friedman, A. B. Siegelaub, Morris F. Collen, Social Factors in Newly Discovered Elevated Blood Pressure, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 14, No. 3 (Sep., 1973), pp. 198-204
Contributions of Social Epidemiology to the Study of Medical Care Systems: The Need for Cross-Cultural Research
The Euratom Commission agreed to the construction of a specific experimental reactor, ESSOR, for the study of the technological problems which still exist for reactors of the ORGEL type. The ESSOR installation is being built in the Ispra common research center. Reactors of the ORGEL type are heavy water reactors with good neutron economy whose cooling is accomplished by a low melting point mixture of terphenylene. This mixture, under the influenc…
Cultural Mobility and the Occurrence of Coronary Heart Disease
Sociocultural Factors and Coronary Heart Disease
Thirty Years of Research in Human Fertility--Retrospect and Prospect
Social support and health
Socioeconomic status and health: The challenge of the gradient
SES is consistently associated with health outcomes, yet little is known about the psychosocial and behavioral mechanisms that might explain this association. Researchers usually control for SES rather than examine it. When it is studied, only effects of lower, poverty-level SES are generally examined. However, there is evidence of a graded association with health at all levels of SES, an observation that requires new thought about domains throug…
Do experiences of racial discrimination predict cardiovascular disease among African American men? The moderating role of internalized negative racial group attitudes
Social Isolation: A Predictor of Mortality Comparable to Traditional Clinical Risk Factors
Objectives. We explored the relationship between social isolation and mortality in a nationally representative US sample and compared the predictive power of social isolation with that of traditional clinical risk factors. Methods. We used data on 16 849 adults from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and the National Death Index. Predictor variables were 4 social isolation factors and a composite index. Comparison predicto…
Education: A Missed Opportunity for Public Health Intervention
Educational attainment is a well-established social determinant of health. It affects health through many mechanisms such as neural development, biological aging, health literacy and health behaviors, sense of control and empowerment, and life chances. Education—from preschool to beyond college—is also one of the social determinants of health for which there are clear policy pathways for intervention. We reviewed evidence from studies of early ch…
Objective and subjective social class gradients for substance use among Mexican adolescents
Integration of Social Epidemiology and Community-Engaged Interventions to Improve Health Equity
The past quarter century has seen an explosion of concern about widening health inequities in the United States and worldwide. These inequities are central to the research mission in 2 arenas of public health: social epidemiology and community-engaged interventions. Yet only modest success has been achieved in eliminating health inequities. We advocate dialogue and reciprocal learning between researchers with these 2 perspectives to enhance emerg…
Engaging youth in communities: A framework for promoting adolescent and community health
Health researchers and practitioners increasingly recognise the important role communities play in shaping individual health. Health researchers recognise the role of community factors as causes or determinants of health problems; use community-based methods for understanding complex health issues; and design community-level health solutions . In this commentary, we propose a fourth way to think about the role of communities in individual health …
The association between a living wage and subjective social status and self-rated health: A quasi-experimental study in the Dominican Republic
The effects of policies and programs on reduction of mental hospitalization
Social Factors in Newly Discovered Elevated Blood Pressure
Thomas W. Oakes, S. Leonard Syme, Robert Feldman, Gary D. Friedman, A. B. Siegelaub, Morris F. Collen, Social Factors in Newly Discovered Elevated Blood Pressure, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 14, No. 3 (Sep., 1973), pp. 198-204
Promoting Prenatal and Early Childhood Health: Evaluation of a Statewide Materials-Based Intervention for Parents
Objectives. There is a critical need for effective, large-scale health communication programs to support parents of children aged 0–5 years. We evaluated the effectiveness of the Kit for New Parents, a multimedia health and parenting resource now distributed annually to 500000 parents in California. Methods. In this quasi-experimental study, 462 mothers in the intervention group and 1011 mothers in the comparison group, recruited from prenatal an…
Sociocultural Factors and Coronary Heart Disease
Sociology: With Application to Nursing and Health Education
Thirty Years of Research in Human Fertility--Retrospect and Prospect
Sociocultural Factors and Coronary Heart Disease
Cultural Mobility and the Occurrence of Coronary Heart Disease
Contributions of Social Epidemiology to the Study of Medical Care Systems: The Need for Cross-Cultural Research
The Euratom Commission agreed to the construction of a specific experimental reactor, ESSOR, for the study of the technological problems which still exist for reactors of the ORGEL type. The ESSOR installation is being built in the Ispra common research center. Reactors of the ORGEL type are heavy water reactors with good neutron economy whose cooling is accomplished by a low melting point mixture of terphenylene. This mixture, under the influenc…
Social Factors in Newly Discovered Elevated Blood Pressure
Thomas W. Oakes, S. Leonard Syme, Robert Feldman, Gary D. Friedman, A. B. Siegelaub, Morris F. Collen, Social Factors in Newly Discovered Elevated Blood Pressure, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 14, No. 3 (Sep., 1973), pp. 198-204
Acculturation and Coronary Heart Disease in Japanese-Americans
Among men of Japanese ancestry, there is a gradient in the occurrence of coronary heart disease (CHD). It is lowest in Japan, intermediate in Hawaii, and highest in California. This gradient appears not to be completely explained by differences in dietary intake, serum cholesterol, blood pressure or smoking. To test the hypothesis that social and cultural differences may account for the CHD differences between Japan and the United States, 3809 Ja…
Social Class, Susceptibility and Sickness
The effects of policies and programs on reduction of mental hospitalization
Social Networks, Host Resistance, and Mortality: A Nine-Year Follow-Up Study of Alameda County Residents
The relationship between social and community ties and mortality was assessed using the 1965 Human Population Laboratory survey of a random sample of 6928 adults in Alameda County, California and a subsequent nine-year mortality follow-up. The findings show that people who lacked social and community ties were more likely to die in the follow-up period than those with more extensive contacts. The age-adjusted relative risks for those most isolate…
Social support and health
Social Connections and Mortality From All Causes and From Cardiovascular Disease: Prospective Evidence From Eastern Finland
The association between an a priori measure of social connections and five-year mortality from all causes, cardiovascular diseases (International Classification of Diseases, Eighth Revision (ICD-8) codes 390-458), and ischemic heart disease (ICD-8 codes 410-414) was studied in 13,301 men and women from eastern Finland who were first interviewed in 1972 or 1977. For men, there was a graded association between extent of social connections and morta…
The Wellness Guide: Towards a new model for community participation in health promotion
This paper describes how community participation came to play a central role in developing the Wellness Guide Project, a major new health promotion initiative of the State of California. The Guide itself was to be a simple document that would give information on how to stay well and where to find help on health-related topics. It was to be sensitive to the needs of people of all ethnic and social backgrounds, and suitable for distribution to all …
Socioeconomic status and health: The challenge of the gradient
SES is consistently associated with health outcomes, yet little is known about the psychosocial and behavioral mechanisms that might explain this association. Researchers usually control for SES rather than examine it. When it is studied, only effects of lower, poverty-level SES are generally examined. However, there is evidence of a graded association with health at all levels of SES, an observation that requires new thought about domains throug…
The Social Environment and Health: A Discussion of the Epidemiologic Literature
The environment can be thought of in terms of physical and social dimensions. The social environment includes the groups to which we belong, the neighborhoods in which we live, the organization of our workplaces, and the policies we create to order our lives. There have been recent reports in the literature that the social environment is associated with disease and mortality risks, independent of individual risk factors. These findings suggest th…
Promoting Prenatal and Early Childhood Health: Evaluation of a Statewide Materials-Based Intervention for Parents
Objectives. There is a critical need for effective, large-scale health communication programs to support parents of children aged 0–5 years. We evaluated the effectiveness of the Kit for New Parents, a multimedia health and parenting resource now distributed annually to 500000 parents in California. Methods. In this quasi-experimental study, 462 mothers in the intervention group and 1011 mothers in the comparison group, recruited from prenatal an…
Objective and subjective social class gradients for substance use among Mexican adolescents
Do experiences of racial discrimination predict cardiovascular disease among African American men? The moderating role of internalized negative racial group attitudes
Integration of Social Epidemiology and Community-Engaged Interventions to Improve Health Equity
The past quarter century has seen an explosion of concern about widening health inequities in the United States and worldwide. These inequities are central to the research mission in 2 arenas of public health: social epidemiology and community-engaged interventions. Yet only modest success has been achieved in eliminating health inequities. We advocate dialogue and reciprocal learning between researchers with these 2 perspectives to enhance emerg…
Vacation, Collective Restoration, and Mental Health in a Population
Vacations enable people to help one another, spend time together in pleasant contexts, and renew relational resources. Reasoning that these shared activities spread social and psychological benefits through social networks, we hypothesized that increase in the number of vacationing workers engenders nonlinear decline in psychological distress at the population level. We applied time-series methods to aggregate data on monthly dispensation of anti…
The Role of Individual and Neighborhood Factors: HIV Acquisition Risk Among High-Risk Populations in San Francisco
Social Isolation: A Predictor of Mortality Comparable to Traditional Clinical Risk Factors
Objectives. We explored the relationship between social isolation and mortality in a nationally representative US sample and compared the predictive power of social isolation with that of traditional clinical risk factors. Methods. We used data on 16 849 adults from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and the National Death Index. Predictor variables were 4 social isolation factors and a composite index. Comparison predicto…
Education: A Missed Opportunity for Public Health Intervention
Educational attainment is a well-established social determinant of health. It affects health through many mechanisms such as neural development, biological aging, health literacy and health behaviors, sense of control and empowerment, and life chances. Education—from preschool to beyond college—is also one of the social determinants of health for which there are clear policy pathways for intervention. We reviewed evidence from studies of early ch…
The association between a living wage and subjective social status and self-rated health: A quasi-experimental study in the Dominican Republic
Engaging youth in communities: A framework for promoting adolescent and community health
Health researchers and practitioners increasingly recognise the important role communities play in shaping individual health. Health researchers recognise the role of community factors as causes or determinants of health problems; use community-based methods for understanding complex health issues; and design community-level health solutions . In this commentary, we propose a fourth way to think about the role of communities in individual health …
Medicine (22 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Gerontology (11 works) · Demography (10 works) · Gerontology (9 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (9 works) · Nursing (8 works) · Public health (8 works) · Environmental health (7 works)