Rachel Johnson Thornton

Biographic Data

ID6064719
NAMERachel Johnson Thornton
GIVEN NAMESRachel Johnson
FAMILY NAMEThornton
SIGNATURETHORNTON R J
AFFILIATIONSAt the time of the study, Alene Kennedy-Hendricks was a PhD candidate at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. Heather Schwartz, Beth Ann Griffin, Harold D. Green Jr, David P. Kennedy, and Susan Burkhauser are with the RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA. Rachel Johnson Thornton and Craig Evan Pollack are with the School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University.
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS2
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR2
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
H-INDEX1

  • Rapid infant weight gain and early childhood obesity in low-income Latinos and non-Latinos

    Open AccessSarah Polk, Rachel Johnson Thornton et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2016

    Objective To examine the growth of infants and toddlers in a population that is both under-represented in the literature and at high risk for childhood obesity. Design Weight and height measurements were extracted from all visits for a sample of 0–4-year-old, low-income, Latino and non-Latino patients of an urban, academic general paediatric practice. Early growth was characterized as change in weight-for-length Z -score (WLZ) from birth to 3 yea…

  • Intergenerational Social Networks and Health Behaviors Among Children Living in Public Housing

    Alene Kennedy‐Hendrick, Alene Kennedy-Hendricks et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2015Cited by: 1References: 49

    Objectives. In a survey of families living in public housing, we investigated whether caretakers’ social networks are linked with children’s health status. Methods. In 2011, 209 children and their caretakers living in public housing in suburban Montgomery County, Maryland, were surveyed regarding their health and social networks. We used logistic regression models to examine the associations between the perceived health composition of caretaker s…