Steven Whitman
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Recent Articles
1.
Hunt B, Tran G, Whitman S
J Racial Ethn Health Disparities
. 2016 Feb;
2(4):425-33.
PMID: 26863550
Objectives: Life expectancy in the USA reached a record high of 78.7 years in 2010. However, the racial gap in life expectancy persists. National data, which are readily available, provide...
2.
Hunt B, Deot D, Whitman S
Stroke
. 2014 May;
45(7):2059-65.
PMID: 24876083
Background And Purpose: For the past decade, stroke has held steady as one of the top 4 leading causes of death in the United States. Aggregated data provide information about...
3.
Allgood K, Rauscher G, Whitman S, Vasquez-Jones G, Shah A
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev
. 2014 May;
23(8):1649-58.
PMID: 24859870
Background: Most health surveys ask women whether they have had a recent mammogram, all of which report mammography use (past 2 years) at about 70% to 80% regardless of race...
4.
Hunt B, Whitman S, Henry C
Diabetes Care
. 2014 Feb;
37(5):1279-86.
PMID: 24574350
Objective: Diabetes has held steady as the seventh leading cause of death in the U.S. since 2006. While aggregated data provide insights into how the country as a whole, or...
5.
Benjamins M, Whitman S
J Behav Med
. 2013 Mar;
37(3):402-13.
PMID: 23456249
Discrimination has been found to be detrimental to health, but less is known about the influence of discrimination in health care. To address this, the current study (1) compared levels...
6.
Whitman S, Orsi J, Hurlbert M
Cancer Epidemiol
. 2012 Mar;
36(2):e147-51.
PMID: 22443886
Introduction: Although the racial disparity in breast cancer mortality is widely discussed there are no studies that analyze this phenomenon at the city level. Methods: We used national death files,...
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Margellos-Anast H, Gutierrez M, Whitman S
J Asthma
. 2012 Feb;
49(4):380-9.
PMID: 22348448
Objectives: Asthma affects 25-30% of children living in certain disadvantaged Chicago neighborhoods, a rate twice the national prevalence (13%). Children living in poor, minority communities tend to rely heavily on...
8.
Benjamins M, Hirschman J, Hirschtick J, Whitman S
Ethn Health
. 2012 Feb;
17(5):463-76.
PMID: 22288772
Objectives: Self-rated health (SRH) is a robust predictor of subsequent health and mortality. Although age, gender, and race differences in SRH have been explored, less work has examined ethnic differences,...
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Hunt B, Whitman S
J Health Care Poor Underserved
. 2011 Feb;
22(1):194-210.
PMID: 21317515
Birth certificate data were employed to determine the prevalence of maternal smoking in Chicago communities by race and ethnicity. For purposes of comparison, we present data for the U.S. and...
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Whitman S, Ansell D, Orsi J, Francois T
J Community Health
. 2010 Dec;
36(4):588-96.
PMID: 21190070
Black women die of breast cancer at a much higher rate than white women. Recent studies have suggested that this racial disparity might be even greater in Chicago than the...