Marjory L Givens
Biographic Data
| ID | 6064709 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marjory L Givens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marjory L |
| FAMILY NAME | Givens |
| SIGNATURE | GIVENS M L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin Health |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-7967-0389 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Why Building Power Is Key to Protecting Academic Public Health and Advancing Health Equity
Power Up
Power Up: A Call for Public Health to Recognize, Analyze, and Shift the Balance in Power Relations to Advance Health and Racial Equity, an article from American Journal of Public Health, Vol 113 Issue 10
Trends in infants born at low birthweight and disparities by maternal race and education from 2003 to 2018 in the United States
Recent reversals in progress in percentage of LBW, as well as increasing disparities particularly by race, are troubling. Future study is needed to continue monitoring these trends and analyzing these issues at additional levels. Targets must be set and solutions must be tailored to population subgroups to effectively make progress towards equitable birth outcomes and maternal health
What Do We Know About the Drivers of Health and Equity? A Narrative Review of Graphic Representations
Joinpoint Trend Analysis of Infant Mortality Disparities in Wisconsin, 1999–2016
Objectives. To address shortcomings of previous research exploring trends in racial, educational, and race by educational disparities in infant mortality rates (IMRs) by using nonlinear methods to compare improvement within and between disparity domains. Methods. We used joinpoint regression modeling to perform a cross-sectional analysis of IMR trends from linked birth and death certificates in Wisconsin between 1999 and 2016. Results. In the rac…
Separate and Sick
The association between neighborhood economic hardship, the retail food environment, fast food intake, and obesity
This study indicates that neighborhood-level economic hardship is associated with an unfavorable retail food environment. However inconsistent or non-significant relationships between the retail food environment, fast food consumption, and obesity were observed. More research is needed to enhance methodological approaches to assess the retail food environment and to understand the complex relationship between neighborhood characteristics, health …
Advancing Efforts to Achieve Health Equity
Equity is a core value of Health Impact Assessment (HIA). Many compelling moral, economic, and health arguments exist for prioritizing and incorporating equity considerations in HIA practice. Decision-makers, stakeholders, and HIA practitioners see the value of HIAs in uncovering the impacts of policy and planning decisions on various population subgroups, developing and prioritizing specific actions that promote or protect health equity, and usi…
Separate and Sick
Power Up
Power Up: A Call for Public Health to Recognize, Analyze, and Shift the Balance in Power Relations to Advance Health and Racial Equity, an article from American Journal of Public Health, Vol 113 Issue 10
Advancing Efforts to Achieve Health Equity
Equity is a core value of Health Impact Assessment (HIA). Many compelling moral, economic, and health arguments exist for prioritizing and incorporating equity considerations in HIA practice. Decision-makers, stakeholders, and HIA practitioners see the value of HIAs in uncovering the impacts of policy and planning decisions on various population subgroups, developing and prioritizing specific actions that promote or protect health equity, and usi…
The association between neighborhood economic hardship, the retail food environment, fast food intake, and obesity
This study indicates that neighborhood-level economic hardship is associated with an unfavorable retail food environment. However inconsistent or non-significant relationships between the retail food environment, fast food consumption, and obesity were observed. More research is needed to enhance methodological approaches to assess the retail food environment and to understand the complex relationship between neighborhood characteristics, health …
Separate and Sick
Joinpoint Trend Analysis of Infant Mortality Disparities in Wisconsin, 1999–2016
Objectives. To address shortcomings of previous research exploring trends in racial, educational, and race by educational disparities in infant mortality rates (IMRs) by using nonlinear methods to compare improvement within and between disparity domains. Methods. We used joinpoint regression modeling to perform a cross-sectional analysis of IMR trends from linked birth and death certificates in Wisconsin between 1999 and 2016. Results. In the rac…
What Do We Know About the Drivers of Health and Equity? A Narrative Review of Graphic Representations
Trends in infants born at low birthweight and disparities by maternal race and education from 2003 to 2018 in the United States
Recent reversals in progress in percentage of LBW, as well as increasing disparities particularly by race, are troubling. Future study is needed to continue monitoring these trends and analyzing these issues at additional levels. Targets must be set and solutions must be tailored to population subgroups to effectively make progress towards equitable birth outcomes and maternal health
Power Up
Power Up: A Call for Public Health to Recognize, Analyze, and Shift the Balance in Power Relations to Advance Health and Racial Equity, an article from American Journal of Public Health, Vol 113 Issue 10
Why Building Power Is Key to Protecting Academic Public Health and Advancing Health Equity
Medicine (6 works) · Public health (6 works) · Demography (4 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (4 works) · Health equity (4 works) · Demography (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Environmental health (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Population (3 works)