Justin T Denney
Biographic Data
| ID | 95560 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Justin T Denney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Justin T |
| FAMILY NAME | Denney |
| SIGNATURE | DENNEY J T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rice University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0246-4004 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 576 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Hearing Impairment and Adult Mortality: The Role of Co-Impairments in Understanding Risk
The results suggest that hearing impairments are not likely to be direct determinants of mortality risk, but rather an indicator of overall health and of the differing pathways to current health status for younger and older adults. Future work should avoid essentializing the experiences of adults with hearing impairment and strive to distinguish between these pathways to deafness in efforts to better understand how access to supportive social net…
Race/ethnicity, sleep duration, and mortality risk in the United States
Current evidence and professional guidance recommend sleeping between 7 and 9 h in a 24-h period for optimal health. The present study examines the association between sleep duration and mortality and assesses whether this association varies by racial/ethnic identity for a large and diverse sample of United States adults. We use data on 274,836 adults, aged 25 and older, from the 2004-2014 waves of the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) link…
Military Service, Education, and Mortality Across Cohorts from World War II to the Post-Vietnam Era
A comprehensive examination of discrimination and the impact on health in young adults
All-cause mortality risk for men and women in the United States: The Role of Partner's Education Relative to Own Education
347,994), we document the association between relative educational attainment and mortality for men and women with different-sex partners in the United States. Fully adjusted Cox proportional hazard models revealed a higher risk of all-cause mortality for men and women who have more education than their partner, relative to those having the same education as their partner. For women only, having less education than their male partner was associat…
Community social environments and cigarette smoking
Cigarette smoking remains a primary contributor to health disparities in the United States, and significant evidence suggests that smoking behavior is socially influenced. Though residential neighborhoods are important for health disparities, recent evidence suggests that people spend the majority of their waking time away from the residential neighborhood. We advance research on neighborhoods and smoking by using individual, neighborhood, and ac…
Does Sexual Orientation Complicate the Relationship Between Marital Status and Gender With Self-rated Health and Cardiovascular Disease
A substantial body of work has demonstrated the importance of marital status for health, yet the vast majority of this work has studied heterosexual marriages and relationships. To understand the role of marital status in shaping health among heterosexual, lesbian, gay, and bisexual men and women, we examine data from a probability-based sample of adults living in 40 U.S. states for selected years between 2011–2015. We test two physical health ou…
Food insecurity in households with young children: A test of contextual congruence
Characteristics of place and the rural disadvantage in deaths from highly preventable causes
Families in Context: Food Insecurity Among Hispanic Immigrant and Nonimmigrant Households With Children
Using restricted, geo-coded Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 2010-2011 data (N = 2700) linked with 3 sources of contextual data, we examine whether a comprehensive set of individual, household, and county-level characteristics explains disparities in household food insecurity between Hispanic children of foreign- and US-born parents. Adjusting for individual, household, and county-level characteristics does not eliminate …
Area deprivation amplifies racial inequities in premature mortality: Analysis of 242,667 deaths in Washington State, USA 2011-15
Racial and socioeconomic inequalities in health are consistently reported, but less is known about the interplay between racial and deprivation-related inequities. We used geographically-localized data on all deaths recorded in Washington state 2011 to 2015 (n = 242,667 decedents) and multi-level regression models to examine premature (<65 years) mortality by race and neighborhood deprivation separately and in combination. White versus non-white …
Child Obesity and the Interaction of Family and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Context
Estimated Residential Exposure to Agricultural Chemicals and Premature Mortality by Parkinson’s Disease in Washington State
The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between estimated residential exposure to agricultural chemical application and premature mortality from Parkinson's disease (PD) in Washington State. Washington State mortality records for 2011−2015 were geocoded using residential addresses, and classified as having exposure to agricultural land-use within 1000 meters. Generalized linear models were used to explore the association between lan…
Neighborhood and social environmental influences on child chronic disease prevalence
Neighborhood Concentrated Disadvantage and Adult Mortality: Insights for Racial and Ethnic Differences
Family Diversity and Child Health: Where Do Same-Sex Couple Families Fit
Increasing family diversity during the past half century has focused national attention on how children are faring in nontraditional family structures. Much of the limited evidence on children in same-sex couple families suffers from several shortcomings, including a lack of representative data. We use the National Health Interview Survey (2004-2012) and the National Survey of Children's Health (2011-2012) to identify children in different-sex ma…
Comprehensive Neighborhood Portraits and Child Asthma Disparities
Racial disparities in health and health behaviors among gay, lesbian, bisexual and heterosexual men and women in the BRFSS-SOP
Objectives: Research on sexual minority health lack examinations of how sexual orientation intersects with other identities, including racial/ethnic identity, to shape health outcomes among U.S. adults. This study examines how health status and health behavior varies for gay, lesbian, and bisexual men and women who identify as non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic black, Latino, Asian/Pacific Islander, and American Indian/Alaskan Native. By examining …
Home and away: Area socioeconomic disadvantage and obesity risk
Does neighborhood social and environmental context impact race/ethnic disparities in childhood asthma
Cancer Screening Utilization Among U.S. Women: How Mammogram and Pap Test Use Varies Among Heterosexual, Lesbian, and Bisexual Women
Neighborhoods and Food Insecurity in Households with Young Children: A Disadvantage Paradox
In the United States, more than 1 in 5 households with children are unable to access and provide adequate food for a healthy, active lifestyle. We argue that the contribution of local context for food insecurity risk has largely been overlooked in favor of focusing on individual family characteristics, and that this is problematic given that mitigating food insecurity may be a communal process. We examine the relevance of neighborhood contributor…
Social Cohesion and Food Insecurity: Insights from the Geographic Research on Wellbeing (GROW) Study
A New Piece of the Puzzle: Sexual Orientation, Gender, and Physical Health Status
Although research has long documented the relevance of gender for health, studies that simultaneously incorporate the relevance of disparate sexual orientation groups are sparse. We address these shortcomings by applying an intersectional perspective to evaluate how sexual orientation and gender intersect to pattern self-rated health status among U.S. adults. Our project aggregated probability samples from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance …
Suicide in the City: Do Characteristics of Place Really Influence Risk
OBJECTIVE: This article investigates the role of social context on individual suicide mortality with attention paid to the possibility that contextual effects are simply the sum of individual characteristics associated with suicide. METHODS: We use restricted data from the 1986-2006 National Health Interview Survey-Linked Mortality Files, which include nearly one million records and 1,300 suicides, to examine the role of familial and socioeconomi…
Socioeconomic Disparities in Health Behaviors
The inverse relationships between socioeconomic status (SES) and unhealthy behaviors such as tobacco use, physical inactivity, and poor nutrition have been well demonstrated empirically but encompass diverse underlying causal mechanisms. These mechanisms have special theoretical importance because disparities in health behaviors, unlike disparities in many other components of health, involve something more than the ability to use income to purcha…
A New Piece of the Puzzle: Sexual Orientation, Gender, and Physical Health Status
Although research has long documented the relevance of gender for health, studies that simultaneously incorporate the relevance of disparate sexual orientation groups are sparse. We address these shortcomings by applying an intersectional perspective to evaluate how sexual orientation and gender intersect to pattern self-rated health status among U.S. adults. Our project aggregated probability samples from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance …
Race Differentials in Obesity: The Impact of Place
This article reveals race differentials in obesity as both an individual- and neighborhood-level phenomena. Using neighborhood-level data from the 1990-1994 National Health Interview Survey, we find that neighborhoods characterized by high proportions of black residents have a greater prevalence of obesity than areas in which the majority of the residents are white. Using individual-level data, we also find that residents of neighborhoods in whic…
Multiple contexts of exposure: Activity spaces, residential neighborhoods, and self-rated health
Families, Resources, and Adult Health: Where Do Sexual Minorities Fit
Extensive research documents the relevance of families and socioeconomic resources to health. This article extends that research to sexual minorities, using 12 years of the National Health Interview Survey ( N = 460,459) to examine self-evaluations of health among male and female adults living in same-sex and different-sex relationships. Adjusting for socioeconomic status eliminates differences between same- and different-sex cohabitors so that t…
Neighborhood context and racial/ethnic differences in young children's obesity: Structural barriers to interventions
Obesity, SES, and economic development: A test of the reversal hypothesis
Education inequality in mortality: The age and gender specific mediating effects of cigarette smoking
Adult Suicide Mortality in the United States: Marital Status, Family Size, Socioeconomic Status, and Differences by Sex
Objective. This article addresses the relationship between suicide mortality and family structure and socioeconomic status for U.S. adult men and women. Methods. We use Cox proportional hazard models and individual‐level, prospective data from the National Health Interview Survey Linked Mortality File (1986–2002) to examine adult suicide mortality. Results. Larger families and employment are associated with lower risks of suicide for both men and…
Democracy and self-rated health across 67 countries: A multilevel analysis
Family and Household Formations and Suicide in the United States
Family support systems have been theoretically linked to suicide risk. But no research to date has investigated the effects of detailed living arrangements on individual risk of suicide. Using data on 825,462 adults from the National Health Interview Survey Linked Mortality File reveals that living in families with stronger sources of social support and integration decreases risk of suicide. These effects persist despite controls for important in…
Suicide in the City: Do Characteristics of Place Really Influence Risk
OBJECTIVE: This article investigates the role of social context on individual suicide mortality with attention paid to the possibility that contextual effects are simply the sum of individual characteristics associated with suicide. METHODS: We use restricted data from the 1986-2006 National Health Interview Survey-Linked Mortality Files, which include nearly one million records and 1,300 suicides, to examine the role of familial and socioeconomi…
Home and away: Area socioeconomic disadvantage and obesity risk
Does neighborhood social and environmental context impact race/ethnic disparities in childhood asthma
Does Sexual Orientation Complicate the Relationship Between Marital Status and Gender With Self-rated Health and Cardiovascular Disease
A substantial body of work has demonstrated the importance of marital status for health, yet the vast majority of this work has studied heterosexual marriages and relationships. To understand the role of marital status in shaping health among heterosexual, lesbian, gay, and bisexual men and women, we examine data from a probability-based sample of adults living in 40 U.S. states for selected years between 2011–2015. We test two physical health ou…
Family Diversity and Child Health: Where Do Same-Sex Couple Families Fit
Increasing family diversity during the past half century has focused national attention on how children are faring in nontraditional family structures. Much of the limited evidence on children in same-sex couple families suffers from several shortcomings, including a lack of representative data. We use the National Health Interview Survey (2004-2012) and the National Survey of Children's Health (2011-2012) to identify children in different-sex ma…
Racial disparities in health and health behaviors among gay, lesbian, bisexual and heterosexual men and women in the BRFSS-SOP
Objectives: Research on sexual minority health lack examinations of how sexual orientation intersects with other identities, including racial/ethnic identity, to shape health outcomes among U.S. adults. This study examines how health status and health behavior varies for gay, lesbian, and bisexual men and women who identify as non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic black, Latino, Asian/Pacific Islander, and American Indian/Alaskan Native. By examining …
Food insecurity in households with young children: A test of contextual congruence
Neighborhood Concentrated Disadvantage and Adult Mortality: Insights for Racial and Ethnic Differences
Religion, Families, and Health: Population-Based Research in the United States
The Levels and Roles of Social and Institutional Support Reported by Survivors of Intimate Partner Abuse
This article explores the roles of social (informal) and institutional (formal) support in the lives of 158 women whose intimate partner abuse (IPA) cases reached the courts in three jurisdictions in the United States.Women were asked who knew about the IPA and their levels of supportiveness. Data analysis includes comparisons across the women in terms of social support and institutional support, and how these were related to the women’s demograp…
A comprehensive examination of discrimination and the impact on health in young adults
Child Obesity and the Interaction of Family and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Context
Families, Resources, and Suicide: Combined Effects on Mortality
Important resources from family support systems, employment, and educational attainment inhibit the risk of death. Independently, these factors are particularly salient for suicide, but how they combine to affect mortality is less clear. Analyses of National Health Interview Survey data from 1986 to 2004 (N =935,802), prospectively linked to mortality through 2006 (including 1,238 suicides), reveals a process of compensation in the way work statu…
The social side of accidental death
Race Differentials in Obesity: The Impact of Place
This article reveals race differentials in obesity as both an individual- and neighborhood-level phenomena. Using neighborhood-level data from the 1990-1994 National Health Interview Survey, we find that neighborhoods characterized by high proportions of black residents have a greater prevalence of obesity than areas in which the majority of the residents are white. Using individual-level data, we also find that residents of neighborhoods in whic…
The Levels and Roles of Social and Institutional Support Reported by Survivors of Intimate Partner Abuse
This article explores the roles of social (informal) and institutional (formal) support in the lives of 158 women whose intimate partner abuse (IPA) cases reached the courts in three jurisdictions in the United States.Women were asked who knew about the IPA and their levels of supportiveness. Data analysis includes comparisons across the women in terms of social support and institutional support, and how these were related to the women’s demograp…
Adult Suicide Mortality in the United States: Marital Status, Family Size, Socioeconomic Status, and Differences by Sex
Objective. This article addresses the relationship between suicide mortality and family structure and socioeconomic status for U.S. adult men and women. Methods. We use Cox proportional hazard models and individual‐level, prospective data from the National Health Interview Survey Linked Mortality File (1986–2002) to examine adult suicide mortality. Results. Larger families and employment are associated with lower risks of suicide for both men and…
Socioeconomic Disparities in Health Behaviors
The inverse relationships between socioeconomic status (SES) and unhealthy behaviors such as tobacco use, physical inactivity, and poor nutrition have been well demonstrated empirically but encompass diverse underlying causal mechanisms. These mechanisms have special theoretical importance because disparities in health behaviors, unlike disparities in many other components of health, involve something more than the ability to use income to purcha…
Family and Household Formations and Suicide in the United States
Family support systems have been theoretically linked to suicide risk. But no research to date has investigated the effects of detailed living arrangements on individual risk of suicide. Using data on 825,462 adults from the National Health Interview Survey Linked Mortality File reveals that living in families with stronger sources of social support and integration decreases risk of suicide. These effects persist despite controls for important in…
Education inequality in mortality: The age and gender specific mediating effects of cigarette smoking
Cross-National Sources of Health Inequality: Education and Tobacco Use in the World Health Survey
The spread of tobacco use from the West to other parts of the world, especially among disadvantaged socioeconomic groups, raises concerns not only about the indisputable harm to global health but also about worsening health inequality. Arguments relating to economic cost and diffusion posit that rising educational disparities in tobacco use—and associated disparities in health and premature mortality—are associated with higher national income and…
Religion, Families, and Health: Population-Based Research in the United States
Obesity, SES, and economic development: A test of the reversal hypothesis
Stagnating Life Expectancies and Future Prospects in an Age of Uncertainty
OBJECTIVE: This article provides a timely assessment of U.S. life expectancy given recent stalls in the growth of length of life, the continuing drop in international rankings of life expectancy for the U.S., and during a period of growing social and economic insecurity. METHODS: Time series analysis is used on over 70 years of data from the Human Mortality Database to forecast future life expectancy to the year 2055. RESULTS: The results show li…
Neighborhood context and racial/ethnic differences in young children's obesity: Structural barriers to interventions
Families, Resources, and Adult Health: Where Do Sexual Minorities Fit
Extensive research documents the relevance of families and socioeconomic resources to health. This article extends that research to sexual minorities, using 12 years of the National Health Interview Survey ( N = 460,459) to examine self-evaluations of health among male and female adults living in same-sex and different-sex relationships. Adjusting for socioeconomic status eliminates differences between same- and different-sex cohabitors so that t…
Introduction: Population Perspectives on Sexual Minorities
Families, Resources, and Suicide: Combined Effects on Mortality
Important resources from family support systems, employment, and educational attainment inhibit the risk of death. Independently, these factors are particularly salient for suicide, but how they combine to affect mortality is less clear. Analyses of National Health Interview Survey data from 1986 to 2004 (N =935,802), prospectively linked to mortality through 2006 (including 1,238 suicides), reveals a process of compensation in the way work statu…
The social side of accidental death
A New Piece of the Puzzle: Sexual Orientation, Gender, and Physical Health Status
Although research has long documented the relevance of gender for health, studies that simultaneously incorporate the relevance of disparate sexual orientation groups are sparse. We address these shortcomings by applying an intersectional perspective to evaluate how sexual orientation and gender intersect to pattern self-rated health status among U.S. adults. Our project aggregated probability samples from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance …
Suicide in the City: Do Characteristics of Place Really Influence Risk
OBJECTIVE: This article investigates the role of social context on individual suicide mortality with attention paid to the possibility that contextual effects are simply the sum of individual characteristics associated with suicide. METHODS: We use restricted data from the 1986-2006 National Health Interview Survey-Linked Mortality Files, which include nearly one million records and 1,300 suicides, to examine the role of familial and socioeconomi…
Multiple contexts of exposure: Activity spaces, residential neighborhoods, and self-rated health
Democracy and self-rated health across 67 countries: A multilevel analysis
Social Cohesion and Food Insecurity: Insights from the Geographic Research on Wellbeing (GROW) Study
Comprehensive Neighborhood Portraits and Child Asthma Disparities
Racial disparities in health and health behaviors among gay, lesbian, bisexual and heterosexual men and women in the BRFSS-SOP
Objectives: Research on sexual minority health lack examinations of how sexual orientation intersects with other identities, including racial/ethnic identity, to shape health outcomes among U.S. adults. This study examines how health status and health behavior varies for gay, lesbian, and bisexual men and women who identify as non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic black, Latino, Asian/Pacific Islander, and American Indian/Alaskan Native. By examining …
Home and away: Area socioeconomic disadvantage and obesity risk
Does neighborhood social and environmental context impact race/ethnic disparities in childhood asthma
Cancer Screening Utilization Among U.S. Women: How Mammogram and Pap Test Use Varies Among Heterosexual, Lesbian, and Bisexual Women
Medicine (37 works) · Sociology (32 works) · Demography (31 works) · Population (29 works) · Environmental health (25 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (24 works) · Psychology (24 works) · Gerontology (23 works) · Demography (22 works) · Socioeconomic status (22 works)